Is *Intellectualizing* a Script that is Enforced Normatively on Mental Health Professionals?

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Don, Vick, and anyone else....could psychotherapists' intellectualizing be called a "script" in Tomkins' language? I am interested in learning/developing more about the concept of "scripts"----especially as scripts relate to organization or cultural norms. That is, whether certain scripts, such as intellectualizing (especially among male psychotherapists) is a norm in the mental health field, and if you are not able or unwilling to take on this script you won't be allowed into the profession. And if you are already in the profession and try to step outside of "intellectualizing" by becoming more open and real, whether you will be pushed back into that script if you want to be accepted. What script are we developing in Shame/Affect Forum? Is it good or bad or neutral to be acting according to a script?

Freudian intellectualizing was particularly intimidating to me as I tried to become a psychotherapist. Could using certain required "Freudianisms" be called a sub-script for becoming a psychoanalyst in the profession of psychotherapy?

Intellectualizing takes on many script forms in various professions. I certainly recognize engineering intellectualizing which is very familiar to me as another male script. There was no way I could be authentic and real as an engineer---and that was deadly because it causes Chernobyls and Three Mile Islands and the Shuttle disasters. I recognize this script when I visit the newsgroup sci.engr.chem. This deadly engineering intellectualizing script will be causing the Cassini launch of 75 pounds of plutonium in the Fall of 1997. Could we all be breathing radioactive dust because we don't understand scripts and how they are enforced as norms?

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