externalize

Make feelings visible

To externalize is to express or manifest outwardly what was internal.

You might externalize feelings by talking about them, or externalize costs by shifting them to others: The company externalized pollution costs onto the community.

In psychology, to externalize is to attribute internal conflicts to outside causes: He externalizes his anxiety as blame toward others.

The opposite of internalize.

expression

articulate

Express clearly, or well-spoken

express · manifest · reveal · disclose · communicate · project · release · unburden · vent · process

business

outsourcing

Third-party task delegation

vendors · suppliers · third-party · delegation · procurement · BPO · freelancing · consultants · partnerships · offshore

costs

accounting

Maintaining financial records

carbon · environmental · spillover · taxpayer · public · sustainability · lifecycle · supply-chain · accountability · transparency

psychology

psychotherapy

Treatment through guided conversation

trauma-focused · healing · recovery · mindfulness · gestalt · projection · displacement · sublimation · repression · coping

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direction of processing

externalizeinternalize

Adopt beliefs as one's own

absorb · take in · incorporate · assimilate · introject

direction of expression

externalizesuppress

Forcibly put an end to

repress · bottle up · internalize · conceal · hold in

locus of processing

externalizeinternalize

Adopt beliefs as one's own

insource · integrate · absorb · incorporate · centralize

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