internalises

Makes beliefs personal

Internalises is the British spelling of internalizes.

To internalise something is to make it part of yourself—absorbing beliefs, values, or attitudes until they feel like your own: Children internalise the expectations of their parents.

In psychology, internalising emotions means keeping them inside rather than expressing them: He internalised his anger until it became depression.

assimilation

absorption

Process of taking in

amalgamation · synthesis · enculturation · acculturation · naturalization · melding · osmosis · adaptation · homogenization · unification

subconscious

repression

Unconscious blocking of thoughts

subliminal · id · ego · superego · impulses · instincts · shadow · archetypes · Jungian · Freudian

learning

comprehension

Mental understanding of meaning

grasp · acquisition · knowledge · cognition · insight · neuroplasticity · encoding · processing · consolidation · embedding

introspection

self-reflection

Examining one's own mind

self-awareness · soul-searching · self-scrutiny · self-questioning · rumination · self-observation · self-discovery · pondering · brooding · meditation

Opposites
direction of expression

internalisesexternalises

Shows internally felt things

expresses · shows · vents · lets out · releases

acceptance vs. rejection

internalisesrejects

Refuses or discards

deflects · externalises · resists · repudiates · dismisses

attribution of cause

internalisesexternalises

Shows internally felt things

projects · deflects · displaces · scapegoats

Family

internalise, internalised, internalising, internalisation

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