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| External expression of emotion, or emotional response |
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| Eating disorder with excessive dieting and refusal to maintain a normal body weight |
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| Characterized by unpleasent tension, distress, and avoidance behavior; examples are phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder |
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| Absence of emotions; lack of interest or emotional involvement |
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| Thinking is internally stimulated and ideas have a private meaning; fantasy thought of as reality |
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| Mood disorder with alternating periods of mania and depression |
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| Eating disorder with binge eating following by vomiting, purging, and depression |
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| Active substance in marijuana; THC |
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| Uncontrollable urge to perform an act repeatedly |
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| Condition marked by physical symptoms with no organic basis, appearing as a result of anxiety and unconscious inner conflict |
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| Unconscious technique (coping mechanism) a person uses to resolve or conceal conflicts and anxiety. It protects the individual against anxiety and stress; examples are acting out and denial |
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| Confusion in thinking; faulty perceptions and irrational behavior |
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| Fixed, false belief that cannot be changed by logical reasoning or evidence |
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| Loss of intellectual abilities with impairment of memory, judgement, and reasoning as well as changes in personality |
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| Major mood disorder with chronic sadness, loos of energy, hopelessness, worry, and discouragement and, commonly, suicidal impulses and thoughts |
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| Chronic or sudden disturbances in memory, identity, or consciousness; examples are multiple personality disorder, psychogenic disorders, amnesia, and fugue |
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| Central coordinating branch of the personality or mind |
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| Flight from customary surroundings; dissociative disorder |
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| Strong and persistant cross-gender identification with the opposite sex |
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| False sensory perception (hearing voices, seeing things) |
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| Major unconscious part of the personality; energy from instictual drives and desires |
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| Unstable; undergoing rapid emotional change |
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| Extreme excitement, hyperactive elation, and agitation |
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| Prolonged emotiondominates a person's life; examples are bipolar and depressive disorders |
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| Nonreactive state; stupor |
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| Repressed conflicts lead to mental symptoms such as anxiety and fears that disturb ability to function; less severe than a psychosis |
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| OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER |
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| Anxiety disorder in which recurrent thoughts and repetitive acts dominate behavior |
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| Overly suspicious system of thinking; fixed delusions that one is being harassed, persecuted, or unfairly treated |
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| Recurrent intense sexual urge, fantasy, or behavior that involves unusual objects, activities, or situations |
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| Lifelong personality patterns marked by inflexibility and impairment of social function |
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| PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS |
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| Group of childhood disorders characterized by delays in socialization and communication skills; autism and Asperger syndrome are examples |
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| Irrational or disabling fear (avoidance) of an object or situation |
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| POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER |
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| Anxiety-related symptoms appear after personal experience of a tramatic event |
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| PROJECTIVE (PERSONALITY) TEST |
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| Diagnostic personality test using unstructured stimuli (inkblots, pictures, abstract patterns, incomplete sentences) to evoke responses that reflect aspects of an individual's personality |
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| Physician (MD) with medical training in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders |
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| Nonmedical professional specializing in mental processes and how the brain functions in health and disease |
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| A disorder marked by loss of contact with reality; often with delusions and hallucinations |
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| Ability to perceive fact from fantasy; severely impaired in psychoses |
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| Defense mechanism by which unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and impulses are automatically pushed into the unconscious |
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| A psychosis marked by withdrawal (split) from reality into an inner world of disorganized thinking and conflict |
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| Disorders of paraphilias and sexual dysfunctions |
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| Having physical symptoms that cannot be explained by any actual physical disorder or other well-described mental disorder such as depression |
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| SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS |
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| Regular overuse of psychoactive susbstance (alcohol, amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, hallucinogens, opioids, and sedatives) that affect the central nervous system. |
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| Internalized conscience and moral part of the personality |
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| Central nervous system stimulants that may be used to treat depression and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder |
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| Drugs that treat psychotic symptoms and behavior (schizophrenia, bipolar disease, and other mental illness) |
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| Drugs that lessen anxiety, tension, agitation, and panic attacks |
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| COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY |
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| Conditioning is used to relieve anxiety and improve symptoms of illness |
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| ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY |
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| Electric current is used to produce changes in brain wave patterns with resulting convulsions and loss of consciousness; effective in the treatment of major depression. Modern techniques use anesthesia, so the convulsion is not observable |
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| Treatment of an entire family to resolve and shed light on conflicts |
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| Psychoanalytic technique in which the patient verbalizes, without censorship, the passing contents of his or her mind |
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| Group of patients with similar problems gain insight into their personalities through discussion and interaction with each other |
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| Trance (state of altered consciousness) is used to increase the pace of psychotherapy |
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| Face to face discussion of life problems and associated feelings |
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| Medication used to treat the manic stage of manic-depressive illness |
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| Any drug that favorably modifies psychotic symptoms |
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| Treatment in which a child, through the use of toys in a playroom setting, expresses conflicts and feelings unstable to be communicated in a direct manner |
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| Treatment that allows the patient to explore inner emotions and conflicts so as to understand and change current behavior |
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| Group therapy in which a patient expresses feelings by acting out family and social roles with other patients |
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| Treatment of psychiatric disorders with drugs |
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| Drugs that lessen anxiety |
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| Offering encouragement, support, and hope to patients facing difficult transitions and events |
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| Psychoanalytic process in which the patient relates to the therapist as though the therapist were a prominent childhood figure |
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| TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANTS |
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| Drugs used to treat severe depression; three-ringed fused structure |
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| Uneasy, anxious, distressed |
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| Hallucination, to wander in the mind |
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| Fear (irrational often disabling) |
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| Deficient, less than, below normal |
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