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| A drug that is used for relief of anxiety; a mild tranquilizer. |
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| Developmental disorder characterized by delays in socialization and communication skills. |
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| A substance that causes hallucinations (false sensory perceptions). |
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Condition or state of altered consciousness in which there is increased responsiveness to
commands and suggestions. |
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| One who specializes in the treatment of the mind. |
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| Pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in. |
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| Chemical messenger that stimulates or inhibits another cell. |
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A psychosexual disorder in which sexual arousal is dependent on bizarre fantasies or acts
involving use of a nonhuman object or suffering and humiliation of a human. |
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A psychosis involving withdrawal from the external world with a disturbed sense of self;
includes delusions, hallucinations, and inappropriate affect. Literally means “split mind”. |
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Significant impairment of reality with symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and
bizarre behavior. |
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| Study of the effect of drugs on the mind. |
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Traits of shyness, social withdrawal, and introversion that characterize the schizoid
personality. Also can refer to schizophrenia-like traits that indicate a predisposition to
schizophrenia. |
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| Pertaining to the effect of the mind on the body in causing illness. |
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| Mental disorders that are characterized by symptoms that suggest a physical disorder but can’t be explained by an actual physical disorder. |
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| Pertaining to produced by the mind. |
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| Drugs that modify psychotic behavior and symptoms (phenothiazines are examples). |
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| Madness or compulsion to steal. |
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| Madness for setting fires or seeing them. |
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| Fear of being alone in open or public places. |
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| Exaggerated feeling of well-being; “high”. |
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| Depressed mood; sadness and hopelessness. |
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| Mania alternating with depression; mild form of bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder. |
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| Depressed mood that is not as severe as major depression. |
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| Lack of feeling; indifference, without emotion. |
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| A state of diminished responsiveness to stimuli associated with. |
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| A mood disorder that resembles mania, but is of lesser intensity |
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| Condition marked by exaggerated concern for one’s physical health and exaggeration of minor complaints and normal sensations. |
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| Delusions of grandeur or persecution. Literal meaning is “abnormal mind”. |
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| External expression of emotion; emotional response. |
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| Fear of leaving home or leaving a safe place. |
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| Central nervous system stimulants. |
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| Eating disorder of excessive dieting and refusal to maintain a normal body weight. |
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| Characterized by lack of loyalty or concern for others and lack of moral standards. |
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| Characterized by unpleasant tensions, distress, and avoidance behavior; examples are phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic distress disorder. |
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| Drug that relieves anxiety and produces a relaxing effect. |
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| Absence of emotions; lack of interest or emotional involvement. |
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| A pervasive developmental disorder characterized by delays in socialization and communication skills; often considered a less severe type of autism. |
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| Drugs used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other serious mental illnesses (psychoses). |
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| Severe lack of responsiveness to others, preoccupation with inner thoughts, withdrawal and retarded language development. |
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| Drugs used to treat anxiety and panic attacks. |
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| Mood disorder with alternating periods of mania and depression. |
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| Instability in interpersonal relationships and sense of self; alternating involvement with and rejection of people. |
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| Eating disorder marked by binge eating followed by vomiting, purging (defecation), and depression. |
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| Active substance in marijuana; THC. |
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| A type of schizophrenia marked by inability to move or react to the environment. |
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| Fear of closed-in places. |
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| Cognitive behavioral therapy |
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| Changing behavior patterns and responses by training and repetition and learning how thinking patterns cause symptoms, such as anger, anxiety and depression |
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| Uncontrollable urge to perform an act repeatedly. |
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| A physical symptom appears with no organic basis and as a result of anxiety and inner conflict. |
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| Patient experiences alternating states of depression and exhilaration; mild form of bipolar disorder. |
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| Unconscious technique (coping mechanism) that a person uses to resolve or conceal conflicts and anxiety. |
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| Confusion in thinking; faulty perceptions and irrational behavior |
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| Confusion in thinking, anxiety, tremors, and sweating occurring with withdrawal from excessive and habitual use of alcohol. |
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| Fixed, false belief that cannot be changed by logical reasoning or evidence. |
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| Loss of higher mental functioning, including memory, judgment, and reasoning. |
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| Major mood disorder marked by chronic and excessive sadness, loss of energy, hopelessness, worry, and discouragement. |
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| Chronic or sudden disturbance of memory, identity, or consciousness; examples are multiple-personality disorder and psychogenic amnesia. |
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| Sadness, hopelessness, and depressive mood; feeling “low.” |
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| Depressive episodes, but not of the same intensity or duration as major depression. |
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| Central, coordinating branch of the personality. |
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| Electroconvulsive therapy |
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| Electric current produces a convulsive seizure to treat mood disorders (depression or the depressive phase of bipolar disorder); used in patients who are resistant to drug therapy or when rapid response is needed. |
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| Exaggerated feeling of well-being; elevated mood, “high.” |
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| Compulsive need to expose one’s body, particularly the genitals, to an unsuspecting stranger. |
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| Treatment of an entire family to resolve and understand their conflicts and problems. |
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| Use of non-living objects, such as articles of clothing, as substitutes for a human sexual love object. |
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| Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient is encouraged to reveal thoughts one after another without censorship. |
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| Flight from customary surroundings; dissociate disorder. |
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| Strong and persistent cross-gender identification with the opposite sex. |
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| Patients with similar problems gain insight into their personalities through discussion and interaction together. |
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| False or unreal sensory perception; hearing voices and seeing things. |
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| Substance that produces hallucinations. |
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| Highly emotional, immature, and dependent personality type with irrational outbursts, tantrums and flamboyant, theatrical behavior. |
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| Induction of a trance-like state to consciousness in a patient to increase the pace of psychotherapy. |
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| Exaggerated concern about one’s health. |
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| Elevated excitement that is of lesser intensity than mania. |
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| Produced as a result of treatment |
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| Major unconscious part of the personality; instinctual drives and desires. |
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| Face to face discussion of life problems and feelings to increase understanding of thoughts and behavior patterns; psychodynamic therapy. |
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| Strong impulse to steal, often with little actual desire for the stolen item. |
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| Unstable; undergoing rapid emotional change. |
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| Drug used to treat the manic episodes in bipolar disorder. |
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| State of excessive excitability, hyperactive elation and agitation. |
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| Prolonged emotion dominates a person’s life; bipolar and depressive disorders. |
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| Non-reactive state; stupor. |
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| Characterized by grandiose sense of self-importance or preoccupation with fantasies of success or power; self-love without empathy for others |
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| Antipsychotic drugs used to treat psychoses such as schizophrenia and severe depression; examples are atypical antipsychotics such as aripiprazole (Abilify) and olanzapine (Zyprexa). |
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| Messenger of neurologic information from one cell to another. |
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| An involuntary, persistent idea or emotion |
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| Obsessive-compulsive disorder |
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| Anxiety disorder involving recurrent thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive actions (compulsions) that dominate a patient’s life |
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| Drugs derived from opium. Examples are cocaine, morphine, and heroin. |
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| Overly suspicious system of thinking with fixed delusions that one is being harassed, persecuted or unfairly treated. |
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| Characterized by recurrent delusions of persecution and jealousy with suspicion and mistrust of other people; quick to take offense. |
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| Recurrent, intense sexual urge; fantasy or behavior that involves unusual objects, activities and situations. |
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| Need for sexual gratification with a child |
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| Established, lifelong pattern marked by inflexibility and impairment of social functioning. |
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| Pervasive developmental disorders |
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| Group of childhood disorders characterized by delays in socializations and communication skills. |
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| Drugs used to treat serious mental illnesses or psychoses. They modify psychotic symptoms (delusions and hallucinations) and behavior. |
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| Irrational fear of an object or an situation; claustrophobia (closed spaces), agoraphobia (leaving home or a safe place) and acrophobia (heights) are examples. |
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| A child, through play, uses toys to express conflicts and feelings that he or she is unable to communicate in a direct manner. |
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| Post-traumatic stress disorder |
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| Anxiety disorder that follows a traumatic incident; symptoms such as intense fear, helplessness, insomnia, nightmares and less responsiveness to the external world. |
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| Diagnostic personality test using unstructured stimuli (inkblots, pictures, incomplete sentences) to evoke responses that reflect aspects of an individual’s personality. |
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| Physician who treats the mind and mental disorders. |
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| Treatment of the mind and mental disorders. |
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| Form of psychotherapy in which the patient explores his or her unconscious emotions and past to understand and change current behavior and feelings. |
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| A group therapy in which a patient expresses feelings by acting out roles with other patients |
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| Pertaining to produced within the mind, having emotional and psychologic origin, rather than a physical cause. |
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| Individual (Ph.D or Ed.D) specializing in mental processes and how the brain functions in health and disease; treats patients with psychotherapy, but cannot prescribe drugs. |
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| Treatment of psychiatric disorders with drugs. |
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| Loss of contact with reality; often with delusions and hallucinations. |
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| Pertaining to the inter-relationship of the mind (psych/o) and body (somat/o). |
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| Strong impulse (obsessive urge) to set objects on fire. |
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| Ability to perceive fact from fantasy. |
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| Defense mechanism by which unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and impulses are automatically pushed into the unconscious. |
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| Emotionally cold and aloof, as if split off from other people; indifferent to praise or criticism or to the feelings of others. |
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| Psychosis marked by withdrawal from reality into an inner world of disorganized thinking and conflict. |
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| Drugs that lessen anxiety. |
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| Conditions involving sexual use of nonhuman objects and acts involving suffering, humiliation, and non-consenting partners. Disorders also include sexual dysfunctions such as inhibition of sexual desire or changes in sexual responses. |
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| Sexual gratification gained by being mutilated, beaten, or bound or otherwise made to suffer by another person. |
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| Sexual gratification gained by inflicting physical or psychologic pain or harm on others |
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| Conditions in which the patient has physical or bodily symptoms that cannot be explained by any actual physical illness |
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| Substance-related disorder |
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| Regular overuse of psychoactive substances (alcohol, amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, opioids, sedatives), which can affect the central nervous system |
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| Internalized conscious and judgmental and moral part of the mind. |
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| Treatment that involves offering encouragement, support, and hope to patients facing difficult life transitions and events. |
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| Development of insensitivity to a drug; increasing doses of a drug are needed to produce a desired effect. |
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| Process by which a patient relates to a therapist as though the therapist were a prominent childhood figure. |
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| Cross-dressing by a male in women’s attire |
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| Tricyclic antidepressants |
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| Group of drugs used to treat severe depression. |
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| Abnormal desire to look at sexual organs or watch sexual acts. |
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| varying degrees of uneasiness, apprehension, or dread often accompanied by palpitations, tightness in the chest, breathlessness and choking sensations |
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| absence of emotions; lack of interest, emotional involvement or motivation. |
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| uncontrollable urge to perform and act repeatedly |
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| anxiety becomes a bodily symptom, such as blindness, deafness or paralysis, that does not have a physical basis |
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| a fixed false belief that cannot be changed by logical reasoning of evidence |
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| uncomfortable feelings are seperated from their real object. In order to avoid mental distress the feelings are redirected towards a second object or behavior pattern |
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| sadness, hopelessness; depressive mood or feeling low |
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| false or unreal sensory perception as for example: hearing voices when none are present; an illusion is a false perception of an actual sensory stimulus |
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| variable; undergoing rapid emotional change |
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| elation or irritability associated with distractibility, hyperactivity, talkativeness, injudicious acts, flight of ideas and racing thoughts |
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| little speech and negative or minimal thoughts and behavior |
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| an involuntary persistent idea or emotion; suffice -mania indicates a strong obsession with something (e.g. pyromania is an obsession with fire) |
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| overly suspicious system of thinking; fixed delusion that one is being harassed, persecuted or unfairly treated. |
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| freud believed that personality is made up of three major parts |
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| unconscious instincts and psychic energy present at birth. ID acts according to the pleasure principle meaning it seeks instant gratification regardless of the reality of the situation |
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| Freuds explanation of EGO |
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| part of the personality that evaluates and asseses the reality of a situation (reality testing), EGO is perceived as the self by a person |
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| Freuds explanation of Superego |
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| concience and moral of the personality. It houses the discipline received by parents and society. guilt for example arises from behaviors and thoughts that do not comform with the standards of the suoerego. |
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