Geoffrey is a clinical psychologist who is separated from his wife and is in the process of filing for divorce

Whenever his friends or colleagues ask Geoffrey to talk about it or attempt to cheer him up, he focuses on the statistical evidence about the likelihood of divorce, clinical experience he has had, and anything but his emotions and the pain of the marriage ending. Freud would say that Geoffrey is displaying a living, breathing example of
A) displacement.
B) intellectualization.
C) projection.
D) repression.


Answer: B

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