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Descriptor English: Rationalization
Descriptor Spanish: Racionalización
Descriptor racionalización
Scope note: Mecanismo de defensa, que opera inconscientemente, mediante el que la persona intenta justificar o hacer conscientemente tolerable, con medios plausibles, opiniones, conductas y motivos, aquello que de otro modo sería intolerable.
Descriptor Portuguese: Racionalização
Descriptor French: Rationalisation
Tree number(s): F01.393.746
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011908
Scope note: A defense mechanism operating unconsciously, in which the individual attempts to justify or make consciously tolerable, by plausible means, feelings, behavior, and motives that would otherwise be intolerable.
Annotation: no qualif
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
DeCS ID: 12344
Unique ID: D011908
NLM Classification: WM 193.5.R1
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1997/06/20
Rationalisation - Preferred
Concept UI M0018510
Preferred term Rationalisation



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