EE

EE (countable and uncountable, plural EEs)

People with other mental disorders, even common mental disorders like depression, may still experience severe high EE conditions. The interactions between people with different mental disorders and their caregivers, and the precise mechanisms of high EE could be further explored.

2022 July 21, Siu-Man Ng, Siyu Gao, Amenda Man Wang, Christine Cheuk, Melody Hiu-ying Fung, “Survey of High Expressed Emotions Experienced By Community Mental Health Service Users in Hong Kong During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, in Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, volume 3, number 1, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 2:

expressed emotion
expressed emotion#English

(uncountable, psychiatry) Initialism of expressed emotion.


Aufgabe

(psychology) A predisposition toward particular mental operations inherent in the nature of a task or conveyed by the instructions for performing it.

The notion is thoroughly characteristic of the mystical level, and the Aufgabe of making it articulate was surely set to [Georg Wilhelm Friedrich] Hegel's intellect by mystical feeling.

1902, William James, “Lectures XVI and XVII: Mysticism”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, footnote 1, page 389:

(psychology) A task or assignment (involving such a predisposition).


epiphenomenalism

en-noun

epiphenomenalism (countable and uncountable, plural epiphenomenalisms)

The textbook account of epiphenomenalism goes something like this. Although our thoughts, desires, and other mental states seem to affect what happens in the world, by bringing about changes in our behavior or subsequent mental states, this is only an appearance, cast off by the real physical sequence of cause and effect that underlies our mental life.

1997, Victor Caston, “Epiphenomenalisms, Ancient and Modern”, in The Philosophical Review, volume 106, number 3, page 310:

(philosophy, psychology, uncountable) The doctrine that mental states and processes are simply incidental effects of physiological events in the brain or nervous system and cannot themselves cause any effects in the material world.

The theory of emergent evolution has been largely developed as a corrective of mechanistic theories with their attendant psycho-physical dualisms and epiphenomenalisms.

1926, Stephen C. Pepper, “Emergence”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 23, number 9, page 241:

(philosophy, psychology, countable) Such a doctrine, as advanced by a particular thinker or school of thought.


psychosexual development

(psychology) The progressive evolution of infantile sexuality through oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital phases.


bystander effect

bystander effect (plural bystander effects)

(psychology) The phenomenon that someone is less likely to help another if other potential helpers are present than otherwise.


parasomnia

parasomnia (countable and uncountable, plural parasomnias)

From para- (“above, beyond; abnormal”) + Latin somnus (“sleep”).

(psychiatry, medicine) Any of several sleep disorders.


structuralism

structuralism (countable and uncountable, plural structuralisms)

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(psychology) A school of thought that focuses on exploring the individual elements of consciousness, how they are organized into more complex experiences, and how these mental phenomena correlate with physical events.


nurturant

en-adj

nurturant (comparative more nurturant, superlative most nurturant)

more nurturant (comparative)
most nurturant (superlative)

/ˈnəːtʃəɹənt/

Go to readings, read books like this anthology, read the publications, become nurturant and enriched and educated about what's going on around them, form writing support groups.

1981 August 1, Maida Tilchen, Joan Larkin, Elly Bulkin, “Getting to Know Who We Are: The Lesbian Poetry Tradition”, in Gay Community News, page 9:

In other words, liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

(psychology) That provides nourishment; nurturing.


attuition

en-noun

attuition (countable and uncountable, plural attuitions)

But what of non-rational beings—the animal or infant-man of attuition?

1898, S. S. Laurie, “The Growth of Mind”, in The School Review, volume 6, number 2, page 83n:

(psychology) A supposed form of apprehension midway between sensation in animals and perception in human beings.


schizotypal

schizotypal personality disorder
schizotypy

(psychiatry) Pertaining to or displaying mild signs of schizophrenia; pertaining to or having schizotypy

skizotypisk

pertaining to or displaying mild signs of schizophrenia


schizotypic

(psychiatry) schizotypal (displaying symptoms or signs similar to but less severe than schizophrenia)


associationism

associationism (countable and uncountable, plural associationisms)

(psychology) A theory that association (of experiences etc) is the basis of consciousness and mental activity

asociacionismo

theory that association is the basis of consciousness


identity crisis

identity crisis (plural identity crises)

Coined by German psychologist Erik Erikson.

coin

(psychology) A crisis of personal identity.


enneagram

(psychology) Such a figure used to indicate nine personality traits of a subject


metapsychology

en-noun

metapsychology (countable and uncountable, plural metapsychologies)

(psychology) The philosophical study of psychology and of the mind.

(psychology) A set of principles governing Freudian psychology.


psychopedagogy

(psychology) The psychology of education


transpersonal

en-adj

transpersonal (comparative more transpersonal, superlative most transpersonal)

more transpersonal (comparative)
most transpersonal (superlative)

(psychology) That transcends the personal or individual


PF

en-noun

PF (countable and uncountable, plural PFs)

psychometric function
psychometric function#English

(psychology) Initialism of psychometric function.


autoanalysis

autoanalysis (countable and uncountable, plural autoanalyses)


decompensation

decompensation (countable and uncountable, plural decompensations)

A varying percentage of our combat soldiers reach the limit of their endurance and must leave their foxholes, not for physical wounds but because of emotional decompensation.

1945 May, William C. Menninger, “The Mentally or Emotionally Handicapped Veteran”, in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, volume 239, page 21:

(psychology) The deterioration of cognitive or emotional functionality in a person who is distressed or who suffers from a psychological disorder.

失代償 /失代偿

deterioration of functionality in a person


decompensate

en-verb

decompensate (third-person singular simple present decompensates, present participle decompensating, simple past and past participle decompensated)

decompensates (present singular third-person)
decompensating (participle present)
decompensated (participle past)
decompensated (past)

The infant whose heart is decompensating has a rapid pulse, rapid respirations, and respiratory distress.

1967, Virginia Pidgeon, “The Infant with Congenital Heart Disease”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 67, number 2, page 291:

In some cases, the fragile individual, overwhelmed by the implicit demands and expectations for sociability, coherence, and "constructive" behavior, rapidly decompensates, taking flight into psychosis or protective withdrawal.

1983, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, “A Proposal for the Aftercare of Chronic Psychiatric Patients”, in Medical Anthropology Quarterly, volume 14, number 2, pages 11–12:

(medicine, psychology, of a bodily organ or mental state) To deteriorate in function due to an inability to invoke normal defensive mechanisms that compensate for ailments and other stresses.


preverbal

The expressive power of intonation in communication with preverbal infants was a topic of considerable interest in the early literature on language acquisition.

1989, Anne Fernald, “Intonation and Communicative Intent in Mothers' Speech to Infants: Is the Melody the Message?”, in Child Development, volume 60, number 6, page 1497:

(psychology, linguistics) At an early stage of development in which one is not yet able to communicate by means of words.


biological psychology

en-noun

biological psychology (plural biological psychologies)

(psychology) The application of the principles of biology to the study of mental processes and behavior.


personality disorder

personality disorder (plural personality disorders)

They hadn't reckoned with the attendant personality disorders, which the coldness, the darkness, the dampness, the crampedness and the loneliness were doing nothing to decrease.

1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 136:

Insanity can be cured. Personality disorders are so inextricably entwined with the heart and mind and soul that it is well-nigh impossible to excise them. It would be far less difficult to eradicate Diane's giant rose tattoo than it would be to change her perception of herself and others.

1987, Ann Rule, Small Sacrifices (fiction), page 442:

(psychiatry) Any of a class of mental disorders characterized by ongoing rigid patterns of thought and action.


uncanny valley

Calque of Japanese 不気味の谷 (ぶきみのたに, bukimi no tani), from Middle Chinese 不 (pjuw, “not”) + 氣味 (kì-mjɨ̀j, “sense, sentiment”, literally “taste and smell”) + Japanese の (no, noun modifier particle) + 谷 (たに, tani, “valley”). First used in 1970 by roboticist Masahiro Mori.

calque

So in this case, the appearance is quite human like, but the familiarity is negative. This is the uncanny valley.

1970, Masahiro Mori, “The Uncanny Valley”, in Energy, volume 7, number 4, pages 33–35:

However, when the robot is so similar that it may be momentarily mistaken for real, the transition has a local minimum characterized by a sudden decrease of familiarity, the "uncanny valley"—a dip of frustration due to unmet expectations.

2006, Sebastiano Bagnara, Gillian Crampton Smith, Theories and Practice in Interaction Design:

Almost human in appearance, yet not quite, the characters in 3-D computer animations are more disturbing than overt caricatures. The realm these creatures occupy is called the uncanny valley […].

2007, Jonathon Keats, Control + Alt + Delete: A Dictionary of Cyberslang:

More unusual is perhaps the appropriation of a psychoanalytical theory to robotics–which is, in effect, what the uncanny valley aims to do. Mori's own descriptions of the uncanny follow a similar pattern to Freud's, where he indicates the kinds of events, states, processes or objects that might provoke the uncanny valley, particularly the theme of the dead.

2015, Kathleen Richardson, An Anthropology of Robots and AI, Routledge, →ISBN:

There’s an uncanny valley effect occurring: Your friends look more like brands, and brands look more like your friends, so it’s increasingly hard to tell which is which. And that’s exactly what businesses want.

2016 September 22, Kyle Chayka, “Instagram's Creepy New Ads Look Like Posts From Your Friends”, in The Atlantic:

(psychology) A range of appearances, mannerisms, or behaviors of a humanoid figure that are subtly different from a human and thereby cause feelings of discomfort, such as fear or revulsion.

وَادٍ غَرِيب

subtle differences from human behavior that may cause negative reactions


subitization

Monkeys and other animals can compute the exact number of a small set of objects at a glance without explicitly counting. The ability is called subitization.

2008 April 22, Christine Kenneally, “When Language Can Hold the Answer”, in The New York Times:

(psychology) The process of, or act of, glancing at a group of a few objects and knowing how many there are without actually counting.


monotropic

(psychology) Focusing one’s attention on one limited set of things at one time.


Jungian

en-adj

Jungian (comparative more Jungian, superlative most Jungian)

more Jungian (comparative)
most Jungian (superlative)

(psychology) Of or pertaining to the psychology of Carl Jung.


apperceive

en-verb

apperceive (third-person singular simple present apperceives, present participle apperceiving, simple past and past participle apperceived)

apperceives (present singular third-person)
apperceiving (participle present)
apperceived (participle past)
apperceived (past)

From Middle English aperceiven, from Old French aperceveir, apercevoir, from Late Latin *appercipiō, from ad- + percipiō.

(psychology) To be aware of perceiving; to understand a perception by linking it mentally with a mass of existing ideas of the same object.


dynamogenic

en-adj

dynamogenic (comparative more dynamogenic, superlative most dynamogenic)

more dynamogenic (comparative)
most dynamogenic (superlative)

There could be no more perfect description of the divided will, when the higher wishes lack just that last acuteness, that touch of explosive intensity, of dynamogenic quality (to use the slang of the psychologists), that enables them to burst their shell, and make irruption efficaciously into life and quell the lower tendencies forever.

1902, William James, “Lecture VIII: The Divided Self, and the Process of Its Unification”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 173:

(psychology) Characterized by dynamogeny; producing much nervous activity.


dynamogeny

(psychology) The production of nervous energy, stimulation of the nerves.


verbal overshadowing

(psychology) The situation where considering something in verbal terms reduces one's visual or other memory of the thing.


sundowning

Impaired judgment and sundowning (increased confusion when orienting cues diminish at night) often makes it necessary to restrict and protect the delirious patient.

1986, Norma Sullivan, Barry Fogel, “Could This Be Delirium?”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 86, number 12, page 1363:

Polysomnography and othersleep measures show sleep fragmentation with shortening of N3 sleep togetherwith excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and sundowning as the main findings in AD patients.

2023 April 24, Abhijit Satpati, Thomas Neylan, Lea T. Grinberg, “Histaminergic neurotransmission in aging and Alzheimer's disease: A review of therapeutic opportunities and gaps”, in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, volume 9, number 2, Wiley, →DOI, →ISSN:

(medicine, psychology, psychiatry) A state of agitation, confusion, or delirium, especially in patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease, which begins daily at nightfall and which is alleviated by daylight.


nocturnal delirium

en-noun

nocturnal delirium (plural nocturnal deliria)

Nocturnal delirium of the senile patient is primarily due to the fact that the severe retention defect, and more particularly the greatly accelerated secondary elaboration (Cameron, 1940) found in senile patients, does not permit of the preservation of the spatial image after darkness has interfered with direct visualization.

1941, D. Ewen Cameron MD, “Studies in senile nocturnal delirium”, in Psychiatric Quarterly, volume 15, number 1, page 51:

The nocturnal deliria were piled together with the daytime intoxications and obsessions in order to build a particularly adaptable dream machine, which still awaits a visit from social psychoanalysis in order to penetrate a bit more lucidly into the ancien régime's intricate labryinth of dreams.

1996, Piero Camporesi, Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe, page 128:

Preliminary observations by means of motor activity recordings made it possible to classify demented patients with delirium into different groups according to their motor activity, e.g. nocturnal delirium type, wandering type, hypoboulic type, and lying-down type (Honma et a., 1998).

2011, Augusto Caraceni, Delirium: Acute Confusional States in Palliative Medicine, page 56:

(medicine, psychology, psychiatry) A state of agitation or confusion, especially in elderly patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia, which begins daily at nightfall and which is alleviated by daylight.


sundowner syndrome

Patients who become easily confused, such as elderly patients with "sundowner syndrome" or dementia, and patients recovering from drug-related hallucinations may manifest symptoms during flight regardless of the time of day.

2003, Susan B. Connor, “Ch. 10: Nursing Care in Flight”, in Aeromedical Evacuation, New York: Springer, →ISBN, page 139:

(medicine, psychology, psychiatry) A state of agitation, confusion, or delirium, especially in elderly patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia, which begins daily at nightfall and which is alleviated by daylight.


hypermnesia

hypermnesia (countable and uncountable, plural hypermnesias)

From hyper- + -mnesia, on the model of amnesia.

Near-synonym: total recall

(psychology) An elevated level of memory recall.


ecotherapy

(psychology, psychiatry) Exposure to nature and the outdoors as a form or component of psychotherapy.


psychohistory

psychohistory (countable and uncountable, plural psychohistories)

/sʌɪkəʊˈhɪstəɹi/

From psycho- + history.
* The science-fictional usage was created by Isaac Asimov in the mid-20th century.

Pick argues that the general rejection of psycho-history by practising historians has left the story of ‘historical’ psychoanalysis on the shelf.

2012, Richard Overy, “The Mind of Evil”, in Literary Review, number 399:

(psychology, historiography) The scientific study of psychology and motivation in history.


LFA

low-functioning autism
low-functioning autism#English

(autism, psychology) Initialism of low-functioning autism.


PDD-NOS

w:pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified

(psychology) Initialism of pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified.


behaver

(psychology) A person whose behaviour is being monitored or studied.


foreign accent syndrome

foreign accent syndrome (countable and uncountable, plural foreign accent syndromes)

A Baltimore man suddenly began speaking with a Scandinavian accent after suffering a stroke. . . . The man had "foreign accent syndrome," a rare condition in which a brain malfunction produces speech alterations that sound like a foreign accent.

1991, Gerard L. Ervin, “MLJ News & Notes of the Profession”, in The Modern Language Journal, volume 75, number 2, page 225:

(medicine, psychology, neurology) An extremely rare disorder, which may be temporary or permanent, in which a person who has suffered a stroke or other brain trauma recovers but subsequently speaks with a seemingly foreign accent.


cycler

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My son's a fast cycler which is much harder for people to understand.

(psychology, euphemistic) A person with bipolar disorder, often used when comparing the speed of mood swings.


echolalic

Their echolalic responses may be much more extensive than the single words or short phrases that are characteristic of normal echolalia. Thus, a pseudoverbal autistic child may respond to "Do you want a cookie, Jimmy?" with a replication of the very same words.

1984, Jon Eisenson, Aphasia and related disorders in children, page 30:

(clinical psychology) Of or pertaining to echolalia.


self-acceptance

(psychology) The acceptance of self in spite of weaknesses or deficiencies.


scopophilic

(sexuality, psychology) Of or pertaining to scopophilia.


mental block

mental block (countable and uncountable, plural mental blocks)

His mental block is due to a childhood trauma which he will not confront.

(psychology) Repression of painful thoughts.

Coordinate term: creative block

(psychology) Inability to continue a train of thought.


decalage

decalage (countable and uncountable, plural decalages)

(psychology) In Piagetian developmental psychology, the inability to apply a learned function across all problems (horizontal decalage) or across different developmental stages (vertical decalage).


intrinsic motivation

intrinsic motivation (countable and uncountable, plural intrinsic motivations)

Coordinate term: extrinsic motivation

(psychology) The incentive to undertake an activity based on the expected enjoyment of the activity itself, rather than external benefits that might result.

motivació intrínseca

The incentive to do something based on the expected enjoyment of the activity itself


overjustify

en-verb

overjustify (third-person singular simple present overjustifies, present participle overjustifying, simple past and past participle overjustified)

overjustifies (present singular third-person)
overjustifying (participle present)
overjustified (participle past)
overjustified (past)

(transitive, psychology) Specifically, to provide external incentive for an already-internally-motivated behavior, thereby risking the loss of the original motivation.


overjustification

en-noun

overjustification (countable and uncountable, plural overjustifications)

From overjustify + -ification, or from over- + justification.

(psychology) External incentives for an already internally motivated behavior, which risk the loss of the original motivation.


orgastic potency

Calque of German orgastische Potenz, coined by Austrian physician Wilhelm Reich.

Orgastic potency is the capacity to surrender to the flow of biological energy, free of any inhibitions; the capacity to discharge completely and the dammed-up sexual excitation through involuntary, pleasurable convulsions of the body.

1927, Wilhelm Reich, translated by Theodore P. Wolfe, The Function of the Orgasm, New York: Meridian, published 1970, page 79:

Establishment of orgastic potency brings about very definite changes in the individual — changes which are not properly recognized or understood by most psychiatrists even today. The recognition of orgastic potency was crucial.

1967, Elsworth F. Baker, Man in the Trap, →ISBN, page xxiii:

Orgastic potency is always lacking in neurotic individuals. It presupposes the presence or establishment of genitality: that is, the absence of pathological character armor and muscular armor. Orgastic potency is usually, and erroneously, not distinguieshed from erective and ejaculative potency, both of which are prerequisites of orgastic potency.

2015, Charles Konia, The Emotional Plague: The Root of Human Evil, →ISBN:

(psychology) The ability to experience full orgasmic gratification while engaging in the sexual act, a condition only possible for people without neuroses.


passive-aggressive

en-adj

passive-aggressive (comparative more passive-aggressive, superlative most passive-aggressive)

more passive-aggressive (comparative)
most passive-aggressive (superlative)

(psychology) Showing passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to following authoritative instructions in interpersonal or occupational situations.


eustress

en-noun

eustress (countable and uncountable, plural eustresses)

(psychology) A healthful, stimulating kind and level of stress.


self report

(medicine, psychology) A report of a respondent of a survey or an interview about their internal state or perception, such as of pain, contrasting to measurement using a measuring device and to observations made by other people.


selective mutism

social anxiety disorder
social anxiety disorder

(clinical psychology, psychiatry) A severe form of social anxiety disorder characterized by a total inability to speak or communicate orally in certain social settings.

mutismo selectivo

inability to speak in certain social settings


characterology

characterology (countable and uncountable, plural characterologies)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:characterology.

(psychology) The study or attempted deduction of character in individuals.


concretization

concretization (countable and uncountable, plural concretizations)

Another [patient] commented on the fact that the consultant had referred to two of them as "boys" in the demonstration. The concretization of a schizophrenic is exemplified here. One man thought this word meant that the consultant, in order "to keep things on the level of boy-girl, wanted everyone else to consider her as a girl, so the boys and girls could communicate."

1969, E. Drage, B. Lange, “Ethical Considerations in the Use of Patients for Demonstration,”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 69, number 10, page 2165:

(uncountable, medicine, psychology) An inability to generalize or perform abstraction accompanied by excessive concentration on specific details, as in a mental disorder or in cognition by children.


cognitive psychology

(psychology) A branch of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language.


assortative mating

assortative mating (countable and uncountable, plural assortative matings)

Underlying all distributions of characters in assortative matings are certain elementary principles based on probabilities and the theory of sampling.

1922, Frank A. Hartman, "The Emergency Function of the Adrenal," Science, New Series, vol. 56, no. 1440, p. 146

A recent New York Times Magazine story that investigated the rise of diagnoses of bipolar disorder in children suggested assortative mating as a possible cause, because parents who are both bipolar—and who may marry because they are more likely to understand one another's symptoms—are more likely to have bipolar children.

2008 September 20, Sarah Barmak, “Social Science: I like you because you're like me”, in Toronto Star, page ID3:

(psychology, genetics) Between males and females of a species, the mutual attraction or selection, for reproductive purposes, of individuals with similar characteristics.


allocentric

en-adj

allocentric (comparative more allocentric, superlative most allocentric)

more allocentric (comparative)
most allocentric (superlative)

The adjective is derived from allo- (prefix meaning ‘different; other’) + -centric (suffix meaning ‘having a specified object at the centre, or as the focus of attention’). Sense 3 (‘of a tourist: tending to be adventurous’) was coined by the American travel researcher Stanley C. Plog in a paper presented to the Southern California Chapter of the Travel Research Association on 10 October 1972, which was later published in February 1974.
The noun is probably derived from the adjective.

coinage

Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.

Of spatial representations: linked to a reference frame based on the external environment and independent of one's current location in it (for example, giving a direction as "north" as opposed to "right").

[Stanley C.] Plog (1974, 1990, 1991b) delineated personality types along a continuum ranging from allocentrism to psychocentrism. The psychocentric personality type tends toward territory boundedness, insecurity, and powerlessness. Psychocentric individuals also tend to have non-active lifestyles and are non-adventurous. In contrast, allocentric individuals tend to be self-confident, intellectually curious, and feel in control of their lives.

1995, Robert Madrigal, “Personal Values, Traveler Personality Type, and Leisure Travel Style”, in Journal of Leisure Research, volume 27, number 2, Arlington, Va.: National Recreation and Park Association, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-08-14, page 128:

[P]sychocentrics could conceivably vacation in essentially allocentric destinations (with the exception of people with extremely low incomes). For instance, a psychocentric may travel to a remote area under the security of a completely planned, fully escorted tour.

1999, K. K. Sharma, “Tourism Psychology and Motivation”, in Tourism and Culture, New Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, published 2004, →ISBN, page 189:

Remember that whether a tourist is more psychocentric or more allocentric depends on the different motivations and the different destinations chosen by the tourist. The tourist may also oscillate between both psychocentric and allocentric choices. For example, a tourist may choose an allocentric holiday in December to a remote game reserve, but have a psychocentric short break in July to Singapore, where he or she may prefer a package tour and will stick to the touristy areas of town.

2003, “Tourism Motivation and Behaviour”, in Berendien Lubbe, editor, Tourism Management in Southern Africa, Cape Town, Western Cape: Pearson Education South Africa, published 2005, →ISBN, part 2 (The Demand for Tourism), page 38, column 2:

[Stanley C.] Plog recognised that personalities change over time, and given time, the psychocentrics may become allocentric in their choice of holiday destination and activity as they gain experience of travel.

2020, J. Christopher Holloway, Claire Humphreys, “The Demand for Tourism”, in The Business of Tourism, 11th edition, London, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, part 1 (Defining and Analysing Tourism and Its Impacts), page 75:

At the one extreme, psychocentrics are those travellers that are not adventurous, and seek amenities and culture similar to their home environment. At the other end of the continuum, an allocentric tourist is very adventurous, seeks and embraces different cultures, local food, and requires only basic tourism infrastructure.

2020, Peter Robinson, Michael Lück, Stephen L. J. Smith, “Responsible Tourism Management”, in Tourism, 2nd edition, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Boston, Mass.: CABI, →ISBN, part 5 (Tourism Development), page 366, column 1:

(also tourism) Of a tourist: tending to be adventurous and preferring novel and unfamiliar experiences.


allocentric

According to [Stanley C.] Plog (1991b), psychocentrics tend to prefer a high degree of familiarity in their travel and, as a result, enjoy group or "packaged" tours. In contrast, allocentrics enjoy vacations to exotic and unique destinations, and prefer to travel independently (i.e., not as part of group tours).

Simply put, psychocentrics are at ease only when within their comfort zone, while allocentrics are driven to leave their comfort zone on a regular basis.

[2001, Doris S. Davidoff, Philip G. Davidoff, Donald M. Davidoff, Douglas G. Davidoff, “The Classic Motivation Mistake”, in Parenting the Office, Gretna, New Orleans, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 209:

Another typology of tourists was introduced by [Stanley C.] Plog (1991), who used psychographic analysis to create a continuum of tourist types. While Plog's model is a continuum with indefinite points, he was able to divide tourists into five main groups: psychocentrics, near psychocentrics, midcentrics, near allocentrics, and allocentrics.

(psychology, tourism) A tourist who tends to be adventurous and to prefer novel and unfamiliar experiences.


characterologic

(psychology) Pertaining to the character of an individual, as of a depression that is not episodic.


disaffectation

From disaffect + -ation, perhaps with influence from (or confusion due to) affectation.

(psychoanalysis) alexithymia, a neurological condition characterized by severe lack of emotional awareness


countercathexis

en-noun

countercathexis (countable and uncountable, plural countercathexes)

(psychology) The suppression or repression of mental energy.

contracatexia

the suppression or repression of mental energy


sensorium

sensorium (plural sensoriums or sensoria)

From Late Latin sensōrium, from Latin sentiō (“feel, perceive”) + Latin -ōrium (suffix denoting a place for a particular function).

der

The continuum is broken, and the rise of writing helps to break up as well the continuum of the sensorium, to locate consciousness in the written word. What the written word is to the sensorium, the ego is to the entire consciousness, and the city is to the entire encirclement of nature.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 196:

(psychology) The entire sensory apparatus of an organism.


veridicality

en-noun

veridicality (countable and uncountable, plural veridicalities)

Coordinate term: realisticness

Symbol structures can, and commonly do, serve as internal representations (e.g. "mental images") of the environments to which the symbol system is seeking to adapt. They allow it to model that environment with greater or less veridicality and in greater or less detail, and consequently to reason about it.

1996, Herbert A. Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd edition:

(psychology, philosophy) The degree to which something, such as a knowledge structure, is veridical; the degree to which an experience, perception, or interpretation accurately represents reality.


nurturance

nurturance (countable and uncountable, plural nurturances)

/ˈnəːtʃəɹəns/

Rousseauist responsiveness and nurturance automatically flip over into their opposites.

(psychology) The provision of physical and emotional care.


hard-wire

en-verb

hard-wire (third-person singular simple present hard-wires, present participle hard-wiring, simple past and past participle hard-wired)

hard-wires (present singular third-person)
hard-wiring (participle present)
hard-wired (participle past)
hard-wired (past)

"And the mindset of a silo of rail engineers, and a silo of highway engineers, and a silo of bus experts, and a silo of active travel people, you're not going to integrate just because you put them in one organisation.
"You have to actively look at ways to cross-fertilise that thinking, to get multi-modal projects hard-wired in. And from our view, I see TfW as a behaviour change organisation.

2024 February 7, Lee Waters tells Conrad Landin, “A mission to improve transport for Wales”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 34:

(psychology, by extension) To make a pattern of behaviour automatic.


eunoia

From Ancient Greek εὔνοια (eúnoia, “goodwill”, literally “well-mindedness”), from εὖ (eû, “well, good”) + νόος (nóos, “mind, spirit”).

uder

The author says if we translate this metopic or coronal curve into the language of psychology we have eunoia or prothymia.

1899, Editorial Comment: "A New Faculty and its Localization", Medicine 5: 584

We can usually tell which baby at three months old will never reach even imbecility, which child at three will never reach morinoia, habits of life, which boy or girl at six or seven will be arrested in morinoia and not proceed into eunoia.

1912, William Eastbrook Chancellor, "Temperment and the Education of Foreigners and of Their Children for American Citizenship", Educational Foundations 39 (1)

(medicine, psychology) A state of normal adult mental health.

разумность

(medicine, psychology) state of normal adult mental health


mental illness

en-noun

mental illness (countable and uncountable, plural mental illnesses)

Such studies show that geniuses are not any more likely to suffer from mental illness than the rest of us.

2006, R. Keith Sawyer, Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation, Oxford University Press US, →ISBN, page 87:

(uncountable, psychiatry) The property of being mentally ill; mental disorders taken as a whole.

Epilepsy is not a mental illness. It is caused by electrical changes in the brain.

2002, Vikram Patel, Where There is No Psychiatrist: A Mental Health Care Manual, RCPsych Publications, →ISBN, page 70:

(countable, psychiatry) A mental disorder.


derepression

derepression (countable and uncountable, plural derepressions)

(psychiatry) The cessation of repression of a belief, memory, etc.


hysteroid

Like Alex, hysteroids lead crisis-ridden lives reflecting poor social judgment (Meissner 1984).

1997, Cheryl Glickauf-Hughes, Marolyn Clark Wells, Object Relations Psychotherapy, →ISBN, page 169:

(psychiatry) A person with a condition similar to hysteria


misrecognize

en-verb

misrecognize (third-person singular simple present misrecognizes, present participle misrecognizing, simple past and past participle misrecognized)

misrecognizes (present singular third-person)
misrecognizing (participle present)
misrecognized (participle past)
misrecognized (past)

This process of misrecognizing one's self in the image in the mirror creates the ego, the entity that says 'I.'

2006, Mary Klages, Literary Theory, →ISBN, page 80:

(psychology, computing) To recognize in error


deinstitutionalization

en-noun

deinstitutionalization (usually uncountable, plural deinstitutionalizations)

By the 1970s, calls for deinstitutionalization had grown strong enough to yield systemic changes.

intellectually disabled
intellectually disabled

(health care, psychiatry) The process of converting daily care for intellectually disabled people and mental health care for psychiatric patients from an institution-based model (focused largely on sequestering them in mental hospitals) to a community-based model (in which they live in small group homes or private residences to the greatest feasible extent).


sublimated

en-adj

sublimated (comparative more sublimated, superlative most sublimated)

more sublimated (comparative)
most sublimated (superlative)

(psychoanalysis) Modified from the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct into a socially acceptable manner.


Electra complex

en-noun

Electra complex (plural Electra complexes)

With reference to Electra of Greek mythology, who killed her mother.

(psychoanalysis) The theory that a female's psychological development involves a sexual attachment to the father and jealousy of the mother.


esthesis

esthesis (countable and uncountable, plural estheses)

From the Ancient Greek αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “perception”).

der

(philosophy, psychology) Elemental awareness of sensory stimulation.


situationism

en-noun

situationism (countable and uncountable, plural situationisms)

(psychology) A school of thought which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors than by internal traits or motivations.


echopraxia

echopraxia (countable and uncountable, plural echopraxias)

From Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ, “reflected sound, echo”) + πρᾶξις (prâxis, “action”), formed on the analogy of echolalia and apraxia.

der

For example, a tic is an automatic form of echopraxia, involving to some slight degree the emotions and the volition and having been originally acquired by suggestion and imitation.

1906, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Volume 33, Williams & Wilkins, page 547:

1964, Digest of Neurology and Psychiatry, Volumes 32-33, Institute of Living, page 260,
Echolalia and echopraxia have been recognized as symptoms of seriously disturbed behavior in adults for over a century.

Several patients, after repeated experience of echopraxia and pantomime, had the delusion that they could communicate with others without using words—merely transmitting ideas by a bodily movement.

1966, The British Journal of Psychiatry, volume 112, Royal Medico-Psychological Association, page 241:

(psychology, pathology, psychopathology) The involuntary repetition or imitation of the observed movements of another.

echopraxie

involuntary repetition of the observed movements of others


distancer

Coordinate term: pursuer

Pursuers are more likely than distancers to seek help from a professional, such as a physician.

1990, Susan H. McDaniel et al., Family-Oriented Primary Care, →ISBN, page 171:

(psychology) A person who tends to maintain emotional distance and detachment.


cyberchondriac

Blend of cyber- (prefix denoting cyberspace or the Internet, or computers more generally) + hypochondriac.

blend

Doctors are on the alert for a new kind of victim: the cyberchondriac. With so much health information now on the Internet, thousands of people are using their computers to try to match symptoms with diseases.

1998 June 27, Roger Dobson, “Doctors warn the cybersick”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-08:

The growth of the Internet—arguably the fastest-growing new technology in history—has generated explosive growth of people who search the Web for healthcare information related to specific diseases. We call these people "cyberchondriacs." […] The diseases that generate the greatest use of the Web are depression (19 percent of cyberchondriacs), allergies or sinus (16 percent), cancer (15 percent), bipolar disorder (14 percent), arthritis or rheumatism (10 percent), high blood pressure (10 percent), migraine (9 percent), anxiety disorder (9 percent), heart disease (8 percent) and sleep disorders (8 percent).

1999 March 4, Louis Harris, “Harris survey: New breed of ‘cyberchondriacs’”, in John A. Jones, editor, Johnson City Press, volume 79, number 206, Johnson City, Tenn.: Sandusky Newspaper Group, →OCLC, page 4, columns 1–2:

Some doctors complain that they are being plagued by a new type of hypochondriac, dubbed the cyberchondriac, a condition in which patients arrive at the surgery armed with piles of information to try to prove that they have a certain illness. A quick internet search for information on back pain illustrates the problem. Search for the word 'backache' using the Excite search engine, for example, and you are presented with a list of 2643 sites.

2002, Steven B. Kayne, “Practice and Delivery of CAM [Complementary and Alternative Medicine]”, in Complementary Therapies for Pharmacists, London: Pharmaceutical Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Introduction to CAM), pages 25–26:

Faced with the printout-wielding patient or ‘cyberchondriac’, it is tempting to take the view that the Internet is the spawn of the Devil. However, a better strategy may be to offer more reliable Internet sites for the patient to visit; […]

2006, Alan Gillies, “Informatics Can Empower Patients”, in The Clinician’s Guide to Surviving IT, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Radcliffe Publishing, →ISBN, part I (What Can Informatics Do for Me?), page 67:

None of them carried news of research into his condition, but there was enough for any cyberchondriac to get his mind around.

2006, S[aif] Rahman, “Baltic Balti”, in Down to a Sunset Sea, [London]: Twenty First Century Publishers, →ISBN, page 84:

Word Watch: Cyberchondriac [title] Definition: A person who's convinced he or she has a particular medical condition based on information found on the Internet.

[2007 November, “Word Watch: Cyberchondriac”, in Will Smith, editor, Maximum PC, San Francisco, Calif.: Future US, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:

An article in the April 2012 issue of ‘Psychological Science’ suggested that the irrational tendency at work in the brains of cyberchondriacs is the same as that in the brains of gamblers. When gamblers get a positive roll of the dice, they think that their luck will continue. When cyberchondriacs match a few of the symptoms for a condition, they take that as a positive sign and may assume they must have the other symptoms on the list.

2012 November 14, Lisa Jewell, “Are you a cyberchondriac?”, in Irish Independent, Dublin: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-07:

(Internet, psychology) A hypochondriac (“person with an excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness”) who researches their potential medical condition on the Internet.

netistä sairauksia hakeva luulosairas

hypochondriac who researches their potential medical conditions on the Internet


autism spectrum disorder

en-noun

autism spectrum disorder (plural autism spectrum disorders)

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Asperger's is an autism spectrum disorder.

2008, "Scientists Pinpoint Pathway That Impacts Features of Autism", 8 October 2018, R&D Magazine.
Moreover, effects were seen in adult mice, suggesting a possible route to medication development for adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

(psychology, pathology) A disorder involving any of a range of psychological conditions, all characterized by abnormal social interaction and communication, restricted interests, highly repetitive behaviour, and eccentricity.

自閉症スペクトラム障害

じへいしょうすぺくとらむしょうがい


pervasive developmental disorder

pervasive developmental disorder (plural pervasive developmental disorders)

pervasive developmental disorders (plural)

Asperger syndrome
Asperger syndrome#English

(psychiatry) Any of a group of disorders characterized by delays in the development of multiple basic functions including socialization and communication. They were five in the DSM-IV: Asperger syndrome, autism, childhood disintegrative disorder, Rett syndrome, and PDD-NOS.

óbščeje rasstrójstvo psixíčeskovo razvítija

о́бщее расстро́йство психи́ческого разви́тия

pervazívnoje rasstrójstvo psixíčeskovo razvítija

первази́вное расстро́йство психи́ческого разви́тия


childhood disintegrative disorder

/ˈtʃaɪldhʊd dɪsˈɪntɪˌɡreɪtɪv dɪsˈɔːdə(ɹ)/

(psychiatry) A rare condition characterized by deterioration of language, social function, and motor skills in a child after normal development for the child's first three years.

dezintegratívnoje rasstrójstvo détskovo vózrasta

дезинтеграти́вное расстро́йство де́тского во́зраста

де́тское дезинтеграти́вное расстро́йство

Heller's syndrome

deterioration of skills after normal early development


unipolar

Most studies have tended to find somewhat higher suicide rates in unipolar depression than in bipolar disorder

2007, Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison, Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Volume 1, →ISBN, page 250:

(psychology, medicine) Not both depressive and manic; not bipolar.


assaultive

This man is not only very very sick, but I believe he is definitely a Potential Assaultive.

1962, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, New York: Signet, page 134:

Extreme assaultives were operationally defined as those who were convicted of murder, manslaughter, or attempted murder. Moderate assaultives included persons convicted of wounding with intent to cause serious bodily harm, malicious or unlawful wounding, and assault.

1980, Curt R. Bartol, chapter 8, in Criminal Behavior: A Psychosocial Approach,, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, page 223:

(psychiatry, criminology) A person who assaults others.


emotionality

emotionality (countable and uncountable, plural emotionalities)

(psychology) The observable component of emotion.


psychometry

psychometry (countable and uncountable, plural psychometries)

In psychometry and paedometry his original contributions will be little unless he had equipped himself well with the subjects like mathematics and statistics.

1960, Indian Journal of Psychology, XXXV-XXXVII, page 25:

Again, barring in a few universities psychometry and physiological psychology are not regarded as compulsory papers.

(psychology) The use of psychological tests to measure intelligence, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits.

psychometrics

the use of psychological tests to measure traits


dysmorphia

dysmorphia (countable and uncountable, plural dysmorphias)

From Ancient Greek δυσμορφίᾱ (dusmorphíā, “misshapenness, ugliness”), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad, mal-”) + μορφή (morphḗ, “shape, form”) + -ίᾱ (-íā). By surface analysis, dys- + -morph + -ia.

surf

Body dysmorphia “was invented by old psychologists who grew up in the Fifties and had NO problem to find a looksmatch [someone who is your counterpart in terms of appearance] or even better-looking wife”, noted another.

2019 August 6, Alice Hines, “Men are having their faces rebuilt – and it’s all to get a date”, in The Times, UK:

The quest for perfect pecs is so strong that psychiatrists now sometimes refer to it as “bigorexia,” a form of muscle dysmorphia exhibited mostly by men and characterized by excessive weight lifting, a preoccupation with not feeling muscular enough and a strict adherence to eating foods that lower weight and build muscle.

2022 March 5, Alex Hawgood, “What Is ‘Bigorexia’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(psychology, psychiatry) Any of various psychological disorders of distorted body image in which a person inaccurately believes that their body is misshapen or inadequate, such as anorexia, bulimia, and muscle dysmorphia ("bigorexia").


enantiodromia

en-noun

enantiodromia (countable and uncountable, plural enantiodromias)

If one wishes to gain an understanding of how humanity could shift from the one to the other, one needs to have an understanding of the enantiodromia (a movement that turns into its opposite) of the development of gathering into agriculture.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 131:

(psychiatry, according to Carl Jung) The principle whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its opposite, as with physical equilibrium.


Gestalt therapy

Gestalt therapy (countable and uncountable, plural Gestalt therapies)

(psychology) An existential and experiential psychotherapy that focuses on the individual's experience in the present moment.


complex post-traumatic stress disorder

complex post-traumatic stress disorder (uncountable)

post-traumatic stress disorder
post-traumatic stress disorder

(psychology, psychiatry) A form of post-traumatic stress disorder that results from extended exposure to extreme trauma.


dissociative identity disorder

dissociative identity disorder (countable and uncountable, plural dissociative identity disorders)

dissociative identity disorders (plural)

(psychiatry) A mental disorder characterized by the presence of two or more personality states or distinct identities that repeatedly take control of a person's behavior.

解離性人格疾患 /解离性人格疾患

mental disorder characterized by personality states


disintegrative

en-adj

disintegrative (comparative more disintegrative, superlative most disintegrative)

more disintegrative (comparative)
most disintegrative (superlative)

(psychology) Having disorganized psychological and behavioral processes.

dezintegratív

having disorganized psychological and behavioral processes


delusionary

delusionary (comparative more delusionary, superlative most delusionary)

more delusionary (comparative)
most delusionary (superlative)

Are they so divorced from reality that in their delusionary state they honestly believe we need more of their tax cuts for the rich and their other forms of plutocratic irresponsibility, the very things that got us to this deplorable state?

2009 January 27, Bob Herbert, “The Same Old Song”, in New York Times:


MPD

en-noun

MPD (countable and uncountable, plural MPDs)

multiple personality disorder
multiple personality disorder#English

(psychology, dated) Initialism of multiple personality disorder.


antianxiety

Among the most frequent offenders are antidepressants and antianxiety drugs, blood pressure medications and opioid pain relievers.

2007 April 10, Jane E. Brody, “A Lively Libido Isn’t Reserved for the Young”, in New York Times:

(psychology, pharmacology) Acting to combat or reduce anxiety.


avoidant

(psychology) A person who exhibits a dismissive-avoidant or fearful-avoidant attachment style.


hyperphrenia

(psychology) A state of mental overactivity such as occurs in flights of ideas or in a manic episode.


nonself

nonself (countable and uncountable, plural nonselfs or nonselves)

In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.

2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

(philosophy, psychology) Any entity other than oneself.


psychometrician

(psychology) A person who administers psychometric tests.


planful

en-adj

planful (comparative more planful, superlative most planful)

more planful (comparative)
most planful (superlative)

Is an infant who delights in such repetitive actions as swatting a brightly colored mobile or making a toy duck quack engaging in planful or intentional behavior? Piaget said no: the secondary circular reaction is not a fully intentional response, because the interesting result it produces was discovered by chance and was not a purposeful goal the first time the action was performed.

2013, David R. Shaffer, Katherine Kipp, Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence, page 207:


FAE

fundamental attribution error
fundamental attribution error#English

(psychology) Initialism of fundamental attribution error.


schizoaffective

(psychiatry) Combining the symptoms of schizophrenia with those of bipolar disorder.

schizoaffectief

combining symptoms of schizophrenia with those of bipolar disorder


en-noun

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (uncountable)

(neurology, pathology, psychiatry, psychology) A developmental disorder in which a person has difficulty to concentrate and a persistent pattern of impulsiveness and inattention, with or without a component of hyperactivity.

trastorn per dèficit d'atenció amb hiperactivitat

aktiivisuuden ja tarkkaavaisuuden häiriö

trouble du déficit de l’attention avec ou sans hyperactivité

διαταραχή ελλειμματικής προσοχής/υπερκινητικότητας

gangguan pemusatan perhatian dan hiperaktivitas

注意欠陥・多動性障害

ちゅういけっかん・たどうせいしょうがい, chūikekkan・tadōseishōgai

áłchíní chʼééh nidaah da łeh, bichʼįʼ yátiʼ ndi háadishį́į́ nitsékees doo

treble per deficit d'atencion amb iperactivitat

zespół nadpobudliwości psychoruchowej z deficytem uwagi

zespół nadpobudliwości psychoruchowej z brakiem koncentracji uwagi

sindróm deficíta vnimánija i giperaktívnosti

синдро́м дефици́та внима́ния и гиперакти́вности

trastorno por déficit de atención con hiperactividad

dikkat eksikliği hiperaktivite bozukluğu

anhwylder diffyg canolbwyntio a gorfywiogrwydd


systemize

en-verb

systemize (third-person singular simple present systemizes, present participle systemizing, simple past and past participle systemized)

systemizes (present singular third-person)
systemizing (participle present)
systemized (participle past)
systemized (past)

(psychology) To engage in a cognitive process described as the drive to analyze and construct systems.


traumatization

en-noun

traumatization (countable and uncountable, plural traumatizations)

(psychology) The infliction of trauma; the act or process of traumatizing.


ecopsychology

ecopsychology (countable and uncountable, plural ecopsychologies)

From eco- + psychology. Coined by Theodore Roszak in his book The Voice of the Earth (1992).

(psychology) A form of psychology based on integration with the natural world rather than with society.


gender identity

gender identity (countable and uncountable, plural gender identities)

/ˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ aɪˈdɛɾ̃.ə.ɾi/

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Coined by American professor of psychiatry and researcher Robert J. Stoller in 1964.

coin

"Um... is there a better way to put it than 'female forms'? I mean, Justin's gender identity isn't getting morphed, is it?"

2020 May 4, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, May 4, 2020:

Gender identity development may be conceptualized as a continuous, lifelong process of gender self-categorization, which involves matching oneself to a gender group that seems to be a “best fit” using information related to a number of interactive factors such as an internal sense of gendered self, gendered attributes, and other people’s perceptions (Jackson & Bussey, 2023, 2024).

2024 November 29, Jacqueline C. S. To, Marshall M. C. Hui, Karson T. F. Kung, “Self-Reported Multidimensional Gender Identity in Autistic and Non-Autistic Children”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI:

(psychology) An individual's internal sense of self as belonging to a particular gender or genders, or to no gender.

identiteti gjinor

person's sense of self as a member of a particular gender

sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts


DSM

The DSM is considered the “bible” of psychiatry because it’s the criteria mental health professionals use to diagnose their patients.

2012 December 2, Miriam Falco, “Psychiatric association approves changes to diagnostic manual”, in CNN:

While samhainophobia is not a distinct diagnosis in the DSM-5, the fear of Halloween may meet the diagnostic criteria for a specific phobia.

2020 March 6, Lisa Fritscher, “Could You Have Samhainophobia or the Fear of Halloween?”, in Verywell Mind:

w:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

(psychiatry) Initialism of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: a publication by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for the classification of mental disorders.


liminality

en-noun

liminality (countable and uncountable, plural liminalities)

The second way Novalis seeks to repotentize his thought is by striving to evoke feelings conducive to liminality.

1998, Joseph Frederick Bailey, Theorizing night vision: Novalis's "Hymnen an die Nacht.", page 209:

(anthropology, philosophy, sociology, psychology) The state or quality of ambiguity which exists in the middle stage of certain events or rituals (such as a rite of passage or a society-wide revolution), during which the participating individual or group no longer holds its pre-ritual status but has not yet attained the status it will hold when the ritual has been completed.


AUD

alcohol use disorder
alcohol use disorder#English

(psychiatry) Initialism of alcohol use disorder.


presentative

en-adj

presentative (comparative more presentative, superlative most presentative)

more presentative (comparative)
most presentative (superlative)

The adjective is derived from Late Latin praesentativus (“that presents for consideration”) + English -ive (suffix signifying belonging or relating to, of the nature of, serving to, or tending to, forming adjectives). Praesentativus is from Latin praesentātus (“presented, exhibited, or shown”) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives); while praesentātus is the perfect passive participle of praesentō (“to present, exhibit, or show”), from praesēns (“at hand, present; existing; immediate; prompt; propitious; (grammar) present”) (the present active participle of praesum (“to be before something; to be in charge of; to command, lead; to preside or rule over”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before, in front; in charge’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before; in front”)) + sum (“to be, exist, have”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”))) + -tō (frequentative suffix). The English word is analysable as present + -ative.
The noun sense (“construct that serves to present something, or draw it to the attention of the interlocutor”) is derived from adjective sense 3 (“serving to present something, or draw it to the attention of the interlocutor”).

der

(metaphysics, psychology) Of or pertaining to a presentation (“an image formed in the mind after an object is perceived”).


neophobic

In unpublished work, P. E. Cowan finds Rattus rattus, like R. norvegicus, to be markedly neophobic. These commensal species have been compared with two Australian congeners, R. fuscipes and R. villosissimus, both largely independent of man and neither neophobic in the laboratory conditions in which they have been tested. The typical new object reaction, first clearly described in investigations of rats as pests, is perhaps a product of natural selection in man-made environments. But there is no universal rule: the commensal house mouse, Mus musculus, displays, instead of typical neophobia, a capricious and unpredictable kind of behavior […]

1963, S. A. Barnett, The Rat: A Study in Behavior, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 48:

Similarly, it would be appropriate if acutely poisoned rats became neophobic in general (as distinct from avoid-ing a particular food, that is, poison-shy); they should then become correspondingly paleophilic.

1963, S. A. Barnett, The Rat: A Study in Behavior, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 68:

(psychology) A person or animal that fears or dislikes new or novel experiences or food.


palilalia

en-noun

palilalia (usually uncountable, plural palilalias)

(clinical psychology) A complex tic comprising the repetition or echoing of one's own spoken words, which may sound like stuttering.


postinformation

Whereas the initially perceived risks are the result of a voluntary self-selection process, the postinformation risks are not...

1987, W Kip Viscusi, Wesley A Magat, Joel Huber, Learning about risk:

Participants in the course of performing their postinformation writing task apparently formed a new representation that was generally more abstract...

2007, Tina M Lowrey, Psycholinguistic phenomena in marketing communications:

(psychology, sociology) After the receipt of information.


promnesia

Coined by philologist and psychical researcher Frederic W. H. Myers (1843-1901) from Ancient Greek προ- (pro-, “pre-, before”) + μνήμη (mnḗmē, “memory”) + -ία (-ía) on the model of amnesia, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, mind”). Compare Greek προμνησία (promnisía).

der

(psychology, psychiatry, neologism) Déjà vu, a sense of having experienced some event before due to an imagined memory.


cognitivism

(psychology) The view that mental function can be understood as the internal manipulation of symbols according to a set of rules.


Freudianism

en-noun

Freudianism (usually uncountable, plural Freudianisms)

(psychology, psychoanalysis) Freudian beliefs and practices, particularly the mechanism of psychological repression, the centrality of sexual desire to the development of the persona, and the efficacy of the "talking cure" or psychoanalytic technique.


folie à deux

/ˈfɒli ə ˈdɜː/

Borrowed from French folie à deux (“madness for/of two [people]”).

bor+

(psychiatry, strictly) A rare syndrome in which a symptom of psychosis (particularly a paranoid or delusional belief) is transmitted from one person to another.


aclinical

en-adj

aclinical (comparative more aclinical, superlative most aclinical)

more aclinical (comparative)
most aclinical (superlative)

(medicine, psychiatry) Not differentiated; not meeting clinical diagnostic criteria.


mass hysteria

The new mass hysteria is known as the Pyramid Club and began—like so many other strange and wonderful notions—somewhere under the balmy skies of California.

1949 March 7, “Pyramid Club Craze Sweeps Nation”, in LIFE, volume 26, number 10, →ISSN, page 27:

However, these make no mention of mass hysteria or give any suggestion that hysteria may affect multiple individuals at one time in a special situation.

1974 December, Lewis D. Polk, “Mass Hysteria in an Elementary School”, in Clinical Pediatrics, volume 13, number 12, →DOI, page 1013:

(psychology) The sociopsychological phenomenon in which a large group of people exhibit the same or similar hysterical symptoms simultaneously.


la belle indifference

Even now, one pays attention to the complex-indicators which we have studied, especially the physical ones (blushings, twitchings, strikingly soft or loud, quick or slow speech, smiling upon the recounting of severe suffering ("La belle indifference"), symptomatic movements, etc).

1919, Oskar Pfister, The psychoanalytic method, trans. Charles Rockwell Payne, publ. Moffat, Yard, and Company, New York, pg. 496

It is interesting to note that insofar as this supports our hypothesis it accords with the time-worn conception of the hysterical patient with little or no anxiety — la belle indifference.

1958, Joseph Wolpe, Psychotherapy by Reciprocal Inhibition, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 88:

La belle indifference is a way of pretending nothing is happening: it represents a way of showing one's paralysis to others by manipulating their judgment through an attitude of indifference.

2009, Giampiero Arciero, Guido Bondolfi, Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 171:

(psychiatry) A condition in which the person is unconcerned with symptoms caused by a conversion disorder. A naive, inappropriate lack of emotion or concern for the perceptions by others of one's disability, usually seen in persons with conversion disorder.


cuirasse

en-noun

cuirasse (countable and uncountable, plural cuirasses)

(pedology) The armour-like crust that forms upon the exposure of a lateritic soil profile.


apotemnophilia

Coined in a 1977 paper by J. Money et al. in the Journal of Sex Research,http://www.jstor.org/pss/3811894, from Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó, “away”) + τέμνω (témnō, “cut”) + -philia.

(psychology) A psychological disorder characterized by the intense and long-standing desire for amputation of a specific limb.

This paper seeks to present information on apotemnophilia. It points out the need of a man to have a healthy leg amputated, despite the fact that he cannot find a surgeon who will do so.

1983, W. Everaerd, “A case of apotemnophilia: a handicap as sexual preference”, in American Journal of Psychotherapy, volume 7, number 2, page 285:

In most cases of apotemnophilia the desire to be an amputee is linked to a form of sexual arousal, but Mr Smith said there was no suggestion that any of his patients were motivated by sexual urges.

2000 February 1, Gerard Seenan, “Healthy limbs cut off at patients' request”, in The Guardian:

News of the Weird has reported several times on people with apotemnophilia, or body integrity identity disorder--the consuming desire to have one or more healthy limbs removed.

2007 February 23, Chuck Shepherd, “News of the Weird”, in Chicago Reader:

(psychology) A compulsion to become, or appear to be, an amputee.


metamer

(psychology) One of multiple physically distinct stimuli (particularly those of colour) that exhibit metamerism.


word salad

word salad (usually uncountable, plural word salads)

From word + salad, based on the notion that salads offer varied bulk, yet do not substantially provide sustained nutrition.

All of his other verbal offerings were continuous word-salad—a mixture of made-up sounds, syllables, words, and incomplete phrases.

2018, Bob Bertolino, PhD, Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Evidence-Based Approach, Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 120:

(psychiatry) A nonsensical assemblage of words, typical of schizophrenia, Wernicke's aphasia, and some other mental disorders.

salade de mots

a nonsensical assemblage of words, typical of schizophrenia


luetic

(medicine, psychiatry, obsolete) Of or pertaining to lues (syphilis).


luetic

(medicine, psychiatry, obsolete) A person who has lues (syphilis); a syphilitic.


retraumatization

retraumatization (usually uncountable, plural retraumatizations)

(psychology) A relapse into a state of trauma, triggered by a subsequent event.


metaperspective

The husband's metaperspective is his view of his wife's view of her relationship with him.

1981, Dennis R Smith, Lewis Keith Williamson, Interpersonal communication: roles, rules, strategies, and games:

Psychoethics is also seen as a guide in identifying problems with disciplines from the eagle's point of a metaperspective and in the interest of helping in decision making .

1994, Mary Lou Rubert, Psychoethics, America's Perestroika, page 5:

The metaperspective aims to assess the degree to which one relationship member can accurately infer the other member's closeness, commitment, and complementarity.

2007, Sophia Jowett, David Lavallee, Social psychology in sport:

(psychology) The perspective that one believes another person to attribute to him or her.


nonbereaved

(chiefly psychology, sociology) Not bereaved.


schizotypy

(psychology) A continuum of personality characteristics and experiences, ranging from normal dissociative, imaginative states, to the more extreme end of psychosis (schizophrenia in particular).

skizotypi

a continuum of personality characteristics and experiences


nondisturbed

a nondisturbed child


Rashomon effect

Rashomon effect (plural Rashomon effects)

From Japanese 羅生門 (rashōmon), after Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (1950), in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.

And, in accordance with the "Rashomon effect," depending on who is doing the telling, the reported effect of computerization in the same agency may differ widely.

1993, Marcos Leiderman, Technology in People Services: Research, Theory, and Applications:

2017 July 19, Lisa Provence, “Rashomon effect: Police chief defends tear gas; activists allege police brutalityhttp://www.c-ville.com/rashomon-effect-police-chief-defends-tear-gas-activists-allege-police-brutality”, in c-ville.com, retrieved 2018-02-17:

(psychology) The effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.


SPS

sensory processing sensitivity
sensory processing sensitivity#English

(psychology) Initialism of sensory processing sensitivity.


paranoid personality disorder

paranoid personality disorder (plural paranoid personality disorders)

(psychiatry) A mental disorder characterized by paranoia and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others.


deindividuation

From de- + individuation, first described in 1952 by Leon Festinger and colleagues.

Digital media allow almost unlimited opportunity for wilful deindividuation. They almost require it. The implications of those liberties, of the ubiquity of anonymity and the language of the crowd, are only beginning to be felt.

2011 July 23, Tim Adams, “How the internet created an age of rage”, in The Observer:

(psychology) The situation where antinormative behaviour is released in groups in which individuals are not seen or paid attention to as individuals; immersion in a group to the point at which the individual ceases to be seen as such.


disconfirmed expectancy

disconfirmed expectancy (countable and uncountable, plural disconfirmed expectancies)

Assimilation theory in marketing research draws upon Festinger's (1957) cognitive dissonance theory and suggests that disconfirmed expectancy about a product or service will create psychological discomfort. As a result, consumers will reduce psychological tension by modifying assessment of the technical quality of the product or service.

1994, Philip D. Cooper, Health Care Marketing: A Foundation for Managed Quality, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 58:

Expectancies are disconfirmed when what people anticipate will happen fails to occur or when things do not happen in quite the way they had anticipated, that is 'things are not how they were meant to be' (Mullavey-O'Byrne & Fitzgerald 1995). Responses to such situations are often charged with high levels of emotionality that may or may not be expressed; alternatively a disconfirmed expectancy may also lead to a positive emotional response.

2001, Joy Higgs, Angie Titchen, Professional Practice in Health, Education and the Creative Arts, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 56:

Social psychologist Leon Festinger first proposed the theory in 1957 after the publication of his book When Prophecy Fails, observing the counterintuitive belief persistence of members of a UFO doomsday cult and their increased proselytization after the leader's prophecy failed. The failed message of earth's destruction, purportedly sent by aliens to a woman in 1956, became a disconfirmed expectancy that increased dissonance between cognitions, thereby causing most members of the impromptu cult to lessen the dissonance by accepting a new prophecy: that the aliens had instead spared the planet for their sake.

2007, Jim Burtles, Coping with Crisis: A Counselor's Guide to the Restabilization Process, Loving Healing Press, →ISBN, page 4:

cognitive dissonance
cognitive dissonance

(psychology) A failed prophecy, leading to a form of cognitive dissonance in the believer.


multiple personality disorder

multiple personality disorder (countable and uncountable, plural multiple personality disorders)

Soon, “multiple personality disorder,” or MPD, became an officially recognized diagnosis, and a handful of cases exploded into 40,000 reported sufferers, nearly all of them female. The repressed-memory industry was born.

2011 October 16, Kyle Smith, “‘Sybil’ is one big psych-out”, in New York Post:

Dissociative identity disorder
dissociative identity disorder

(psychology, informal, dated) Dissociative identity disorder.


mentalize

en-verb

mentalize (third-person singular simple present mentalizes, present participle mentalizing, simple past and past participle mentalized)

mentalizes (present singular third-person)
mentalizing (participle present)
mentalized (participle past)
mentalized (past)

Specific impairments of mentalizing in both developmental and acquired disorders suggest that this ability depends on a dedicated and circumscribed brain system.

1999 November 26, Chris D. Frith, Uta Frith, “Interacting Minds--A Biological Basis”, in Science, volume 286, number 5445, →DOI, pages 1692–1695:

Next Review Interacting Minds--A Biological Basis Chris D. Frith, 1 * Uta Frith 2 The ability to "mentalize," that is to understand and manipulate other people's behavior in terms of their mental states, is a major ingredient in successful social interactions.

(psychology) To understand the behavior of others as a product of their mental state


premorbid

(medicine, psychiatry) Approaching a morbid condition, especially of mental functioning shortly prior to the onset of schizophrenia, etc.

premorbide

approaching a morbid condition prior to the onset of disease


nonconserving

(education, psychology) Being a nonconserver: not yet aware that certain properties of objects, such as the volume of a liquid or the number of items in a set, are conserved during physical transformations.


alexithymic

en-adj

alexithymic (comparative more alexithymic, superlative most alexithymic)

more alexithymic (comparative)
most alexithymic (superlative)

/əˌlɛksɪˈθaɪmɪk/

From a- + Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “speech”) + θυμός (thumós, “soul”) + -ic.

‘Horst is such a pushover. The big alexithymic lug.’

2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 25:

(psychiatry, psychology) Pertaining to or having alexithymia.


derepress

en-verb

derepress (third-person singular simple present derepresses, present participle derepressing, simple past and past participle derepressed)

derepresses (present singular third-person)
derepressing (participle present)
derepressed (participle past)
derepressed (past)

(psychiatry) To cease to repress (a belief, memory, etc.).


GAB

en-noun

GAB (countable and uncountable, plural GABs)

(psychology) Initialism of gender-atypical behavior.


cyberdisinhibition

The Internet undermines the quality of human interaction, allowing destructive emotional impulses freer rein under specific circumstances. The reason is a neural fluke that results in cyberdisinhibition of brain systems that keep our more unruly urges in check. […¶] Communication via the Internet can mislead the brain’s social systems. The key mechanisms are in the prefrontal cortex. […¶] In order for this regulatory mechanism to operate well, you depend on real-time, ongoing feedback from the other person. The Internet has no means of allowing such real-time feedback (other than with rarely used two-way audio/visual streams). […] This results in disinhibition: impulse unleashed. [¶…T]his disinhibition becomes far more likely when people feel strong negative emotions. What fails to be inihibited are the impulses those emotions generate. [¶] This phenomenon has been recognized since the earliest days of the Internet…as ‘flaming’: the tendency to send abrasive, angry, or otherwise emotionally ‘off’ cybermessages.

2006, John Brockman [ed.], Daniel Goleman [contrib.], “Cyberdisinhibition”, in What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable, Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, →ISBN, pages 74–76, →ISBN:

(psychology, Internet) Disinhibition when using interactive online media due to the anonymity or lack of social feedback inherent in the medium.


trypophobia

/ˌtɹɪpəˈfəʊbi.ə/

From Ancient Greek τρῦπα (trûpa, “hole”), compare Ancient Greek τρυπάω (trupáō, “bore”), + -phobia (from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear, phobia”)), said to have been coined by a blogger from Ireland in 2005.

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Images of lotus seed heads are often reported as inducing trypophobia. Sufferers of trypophobia report that it is the visual percept that is particularly aversive.

2013 October, G[eoff] G. Cole, A[rnold] J. Wilkins, “Fear of Holes”, in Psychological science, volume 24, number 10, →DOI, →PMID, pages 1980–1985:

2015, Irena Milosevic, Trypophobia (Fear of Holes), Irena Milosevic, Randi E. McCabe (editors), Phobias: The Psychology of Irrational Fear, ABC-CLIO (Greenwood), page 401,
In particular, individuals with trypophobia are fearful of clusters of holes that are found in a variety of objects and matter such as skin, coral, honeycombs, seed pods, and even aerated chocolate.

(psychology) An irrational or obsessive fear of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes, such as those found in honeycombs.

集合体恐怖症

しゅうごうたいきょうふしょう


asyndetic

From asyndesis + -etic, after the model of adjective formation in Greek.

(psychology) Of, related to, or characterized by asyndesis: demonstrating an inability or diminished capacity to order thought or speech.


echokinesis

(psychology) the compulsion or the act of imitating movements of others


object permanence

(psychology) The understanding (typically developed during early infancy) that an object still exists even when it disappears from sight, or other senses.

esineiden pysyvyys

understanding that an object still exists when it disappears from sight


abience

(psychology) Withdrawal from, or avoidance of a stimulus.


abient

en-adj

abient (comparative more abient, superlative most abient)

more abient (comparative)
most abient (superlative)

Learned borrowing from Latin abiens present participle of abeō (“to go away”), from ab (“from, away”) + eō (“to go”).

(psychology) Characterized by avoidance or withdrawal.


fugue state

(psychiatry) A rare psychiatric disorder characterized by reversible amnesia for personal identity, including the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality.


Capgras delusion

en-noun

Capgras delusion (plural Capgras delusions)

After Joseph Capgras (1873-1950), French psychiatrist.

(psychiatry) A delusion in which the sufferer believes that a friend, spouse or family member has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.


shiftlike

en-adj

shiftlike (comparative more shiftlike, superlative most shiftlike)

more shiftlike (comparative)
most shiftlike (superlative)

shiftlike progressive schizophrenia

(psychiatry) Characterised by shifts from one state to another.


mitmachen

(psychiatry) A state in which a person's body can be put into any posture, although the person has been instructed to resist any movement.


noegenesis

Coined around 1923 by Charles Spearman in The nature of intelligence and the principles of cognition, from noetic + -genesis.

(psychology) The acquisition of new knowledge from observation and experience, and from inferring relationships between known things.


antisocialism

Typically, respondents with ASPD that use inhalants often exhibited a greater level of antisocialism, and this relationship was intensified further if the inhalant user had an IUD.

2012, Paul S. Links, Jamal Y. Ansari, Fatima Fazalullasha, Ravi Shah, “The Relationship of Personality Disorders and Axis I Clinical Disorders”, in Thomas A. Widiger, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders (Oxford Library of Psychology), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 247:

(psychology) The quality of being antisocial; antisocial behavior.


harmdoing

(chiefly psychology) The committing of acts that cause harm.


configurationism

(psychology) Any theory of psychology based on configurational properties, but especially Gestalt psychology


psychoemotional

psychoemotional (comparative more psychoemotional, superlative most psychoemotional)

more psychoemotional (comparative)
most psychoemotional (superlative)

(psychology) Describing any psychological interaction with the emotions


coregulation

en-noun

coregulation (countable and uncountable, plural coregulations)


sex play

Some children are subjected to sex play by older children.

1955, Frances Lillian Ilg, Louise Bates Ames, Child behavior:

I'd like the kids to have the chance for that kind of sex play. But as a teacher, there is absolutely no way I can look the other way and let the kids play doctor in my classroom. Do I sound hypocritical?

2004, Liora Bressler, editor, Knowing Bodies, Moving Minds, page 116:

Descriptions of sex play among children are very scarce indeed...

2009, Anthony D. Pellegrini, The role of play in human development:

(psychology) Play of a sexual nature between children.


afterwardsness

From afterwards + -ness. Coined by Jean Laplanche in his 1998 work Essays on Otherness, as a translation of Sigmund Freud's German term Nachträglichkeit, on the model of the French translation après-coup.

(psychoanalysis) The concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning.

posterioridade

the concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning


terrible twos

The terrible twos can begin at 18 months and last until about age five.

1988 February, Working Mother, volume 11, number 2:

The terrible twos came early. Almost a year early. When Ryan learned to walk it was the end of our peace of mind!

1990, Susan Hughes, Ryan: a mother's story of her hyperactive/Tourette syndrome child:

(informal, psychology) A developmental stage in toddlers, normally occurring around the age of two, involving refusals and temper tantrums.


acrotomophilia

From the Ancient Greek ἀκρότομος (akrótomos, “having the top cut off”) + φιλία (philía). Compare acrotomous.

der

You have to already be afflicted with the syndrome of acrotomophilia (which has its genesis in childhood) in order to be turned-on by amputation stumps.

1985, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice, Effect of pornography on women and children:

Although there is no adequate explanation of the etiology of acrotomophilia, evidence points to a developmental onset in early childhood...

1987, Psychological abstracts, volume 74:

...the fetishistic attachment is not to an object but to a part of the partner's body, for example the hair or, in the case of acrotomophilia, the stump of an amputated limb.

1990, John Money, Gay, Straight, and In-Between: The Sexology of Erotic Orientation:

(psychology) A paraphilia involving sexual attraction toward amputees.


abulic

en-adj

abulic (comparative more abulic, superlative most abulic)

more abulic (comparative)
most abulic (superlative)

(psychiatry) Relating to, characterized by, or affected with abulia.


agrypnia

From Ancient Greek ἀγρυπνία (agrupnía, “sleeplessness, vigilance”).

lbor

(psychiatry, pathology) Persistent loss of sleep; insomnia; sleeplessness.


psychobiology

en-noun

psychobiology (usually uncountable, plural psychobiologies)

(psychology, biology) The study of the biological basis for cognition and other mental processes.

psykobiologia

study of biological basis for mental processes

(psychology) The branch of psychology that interprets psychological phenomena in terms of adaptation to biological, environmental, etc. factors.


syntropy

By surface analysis, syn- + -tropy. First attested in 1871, in the anatomical sense.

(psychology) A wholesome association with others.


hyperstress

hyperstress (countable and uncountable, plural hyperstresses)

Coordinate term: eustress


intrinsic reward

intrinsic reward (plural intrinsic rewards)

(psychology) A reward, such as the mental satisfaction of completing a challenging task, that is intangible and unapparent to others.


denial of pregnancy

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(medicine, psychology) A condition whereby a pregnant woman refuses to accept or recognise her pregnancy.


apotemnophobia

From Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó, “away”) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”) + -phobia.

(psychology) A fear of amputation (afraid that one will lose appendages), fear of amputations (fear of amputations on others), fear of amputees (persons with amputations).


clinical psychology

(psychology) A branch of psychology with the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.


pregenital

(psychiatry) Describing psychosexual development prior to the genital phase


counterconditioning

This is called classic counterconditioning because it involves countering the association that was previously classically conditioned.

[2015, Ilona Rodan, Sarah Heath, editors, Feline Behavioral Health and Welfare, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 43:

Counterconditioning involves pairing something that the cat thinks is a positive thing (food, play, distance, etc.) with the presence of the scary stimulus.

2015, chapter 13, in Emily Weiss, Heather Mohan-Gibbons, Stephen Zawistowski, editors, Animal Behavior for Shelter Veterinarians and Staff, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 262:

(psychology) A form of conditioning in which a negative response to a stimulus is replaced by a positive one.


reparent

en-verb

reparent (third-person singular simple present reparents, present participle reparenting, simple past and past participle reparented)

reparents (present singular third-person)
reparenting (participle present)
reparented (participle past)
reparented (past)

(transitive, psychology) To subject to early parenting techniques again (such as rocking and feeding) in order to treat an attachment disorder.


mental health

Alternative form: (abbreviation) MH

This makes greater efforts to promote wellbeing and to look out for colleagues not just a moral imperative, but a financial one, too. The cost of inaction was recently outlined in a report by Deloitte, which estimated that poor mental health costs employers in the UK up to £45 billion per year.

2020 July 1, Paul Stephen, “Vital Connections”, in Rail, page 41:

(psychology) One's emotional well-being, especially with reference to one's outlook on life, ability to cope with stress or the absence of a mental disorder.


hospitalism

(psychology) wasting away of infants in long-term institutional care, caused by lack of contact with caregivers


occupational therapy

en-noun

occupational therapy (usually uncountable, plural occupational therapies)

(psychiatry, education, mental health) Sensory play for children often involving an obstacle course to relieve stress while the therapist works to nurture the patient's basic life skills.


conversion disorder

conversion disorder (countable and uncountable, plural conversion disorders)

(psychiatry, neurology) A condition where the patient displays neurological symptoms such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits, but without any neurological explanation, usually traced back to a psychological trigger.


overlearn

en-verb

overlearn (third-person singular simple present overlearns, present participle overlearning, simple past and past participle overlearned or overlearnt)

overlearns (present singular third-person)
overlearning (participle present)
overlearned (participle past)
overlearned (past)
overlearnt (participle past)
overlearnt (past)

(psychology, education) To learn (something) to the point where responses become instinctive.


paraphrenia

en-noun

paraphrenia (countable and uncountable, plural paraphrenias)

(psychiatry) Any of a group of psychotic illnesses involving delusions, distinct from paranoia and schizophrenia.


HPPD

(clinical psychology) Initialism of hallucinogen persisting perception disorder.


GID

GID (countable and uncountable, plural GIDs)

gender identity disorder
gender identity disorder#English

(psychology, uncountable) Initialism of gender identity disorder.


redintegrate

en-verb

redintegrate (third-person singular simple present redintegrates, present participle redintegrating, simple past and past participle redintegrated)

redintegrates (present singular third-person)
redintegrating (participle present)
redintegrated (participle past)
redintegrated (past)

/ɹɛˈdɪntɪɡɹeɪt/

/ɹɪˈdɪntɪɡɹeɪt/

From the Latin redintegrō (“I restore or renew; I refresh or revive”).

uder

His [David McClelland’s] theory is that we are first of all presented with cues in affective situations; for instance, sugar is put in the mouth and this produces pleasurable affect. This type of cue then becomes paired with an affective state in such a way that the cue will, as a result of association, come to ‘redintegrate’ the affective state first associated with it.

1956–1960, R.S. Peters, The Concept of Motivation, Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition, 1960), chapter ii: “Motives and Motivation”, page 44

(psychology, of a stimulus element) To reinstate a memory by redintegration.


acteme

A realisation of an acteme is called an act, and is the content of one semantically homogeneous verse series.

1970, Fritz Kramer, Literature among the Cuna Indians:

(psychology, semiotics) A unit of behavior.


fluid intelligence

(psychology) The capacity to think logically and solve problems in novel situations, independent of acquired knowledge.


schizophasia

en-noun

schizophasia (countable and uncountable, plural schizophasias)

(psychiatry) Word salad: a nonsensical, often repetitious assemblage of words, typical of mental disorders such as schizophrenia.


peripety

peripety (countable and uncountable, plural peripeties)

(psychoanalysis) The third stage of a dream in Jungian theory.


ipsative

Myers-Briggs uses ipsative measures, whereas the Five-Factor Model uses normative measures.

(psychology) Denoting a measure that forces a person to choose among multiple desirable options.

ipsatif

denoting a measure that forces a person to choose among multiple desirable options


sunyata

sunyata (countable and uncountable, plural sunyatas)

From Sanskrit शून्यता (śūnyatā), from शून्य (śūnya, “zero, nothing”) + ता (-tā, “generalizing suffix”). Cognate with Pali suññatā.

1975, Herbert V. Guenther, Chögyam Trungpa, The Dawn of Tantra, 2001, Shambhala Publications, pages not numbered,
Shunyata can be explained in a very simple way. […] In the shunyata experience, the attention is on the field rather than on its contents.

1986, White Lotus Sutra - Unchecked by Sangharakshita; STUDY LEADERS SEMINAR 1986 Padmaloka.
all dharmas were reducible to sunyata. So in a sense you have got a sort of merging of the particular in the universal.

In his treatment of Zen Buddhism, Abe emphasizes that the true self of Zen Buddhism is dynamic śūnyatā: "That is to say, true Sunyata is nothing but the true self and the true self is nothing but true Sunyata"

1996, Steve Odin, The social self in Zen and American pragmatism, page 112:

(psychology) Emptiness, in terms of a meditative state; an Eastern concept of a high meditative state of calm and freedom from distraction.


Pinocchio illusion

Pinocchio illusion (plural Pinocchio illusions)

In reference to the literary character Pinocchio, whose nose grew when he told a lie.

(psychology) The illusion of proprioception that one's nose is growing longer.


racing thoughts

Once the racing thoughts began, I had trouble concentrating on any subject and I felt like I couldn't think at all.

(psychology) A series of uncontrollable thoughts that switch rapidly between ideas, a symptom of bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders or other mental illnesses.


pressure of speech

(psychology, psychiatry) a proclivity to speak with rapidity and intensity without apparent motivation, commonly seen as a marker for a manic episode of bipolar disorder


pressured speech

(psychology) speech that is pressured, as in pressure of speech


nigredo

(psychology) A term in Jungian psychology referring to mental negativity.


DTD

DTD (countable and uncountable, plural DTDs)

dissociative trance disorder
dissociative trance disorder#English

(pathology, psychology) Initialism of dissociative trance disorder.


inferiority complex

inferiority complex (plural inferiority complexes)

Calque of German Minderwertigkeitskomplex (literally “complex of lesser value”), coined in 1920 by Alfred Adler.

cal

(psychology) A sense of inferiority; the feeling that one is inferior to others in certain aspects.


antisocial personality disorder

en-noun

antisocial personality disorder (countable and uncountable, plural antisocial personality disorders)

antisocial personality disorders (plural)

personality disorder
personality disorder

(psychology) A personality disorder marked by antisocial behavior, a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood.

trastorn antisocial de la personalitat

personality disorder marked by disregard and violations of the rights of others


insulin shock therapy

insulin shock therapy (usually uncountable, plural insulin shock therapies)

(medicine, psychiatry, dated) An outdated type of shock therapy effected by means of injecting an overdose of insulin.


retraumatize

en-verb

retraumatize (third-person singular simple present retraumatizes, present participle retraumatizing, simple past and past participle retraumatized)

retraumatizes (present singular third-person)
retraumatizing (participle present)
retraumatized (participle past)
retraumatized (past)

One risk of introducing potent material too fast is that a veteran could become retraumatized and perhaps unwilling to continue other kinds of therapy, as well.

2007 August 28, Amanda Schaffer, “Not a Game: Simulation to Lessen War Trauma”, in New York Times:

(psychology, transitive) To traumatize again or anew.


querulant

From Medieval Latin querulans, querulantis.

(psychology) One who has obsessive feelings of having been wronged.


impostorism

Their findings have veered well away from the original conception of impostorism as a reflection of an anxious personality or a cultural stereotype.

2008 February 5, Benedict Carey, “Feel Like a Fraud? At Times, Maybe You Should”, in New York Times:

(psychology) The feeling of being an impostor.


Stroop effect

After John Ridley Stroop, who first published the effect in English in 1935.

(psychology) The effect that a subject has a longer reaction time when naming the colours of words if the words describe colours other than their own (such as "red" printed in blue ink).


unpleasure

The life of the psyche also has at its disposal wishes whose fulfilment arouses unpleasure [translating Unlust] – which seems a contradiction, but can be explained if we take into account the presence of the two psychical agencies and the censorship prevailing between them.

1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 182:

(psychology) A sense of internal discomfort opposed to pleasure, produced by impeded impulses from the ego.


facework

en-noun

facework (usually uncountable, plural faceworks)

(sociology, psychology) The communicative strategies involved in upholding face or social prestige.


adultize

en-verb

adultize (third-person singular simple present adultizes, present participle adultizing, simple past and past participle adultized)

adultizes (present singular third-person)
adultizing (participle present)
adultized (participle past)
adultized (past)

Talk with them in an adult manner, but do not "adultize" them. Do not expect them to be miniature adults.

1986, Joanne Rand Whitmore, Intellectual Giftedness in Young Children: Recognition and Development, page 86:

(transitive, sociology, psychology) To raise (a child) in such a way that it adopts adult behaviors earlier than is usual.

成人化

to raise a child such that he adopts adult behaviors earlier


spectrum disorder

en-noun

spectrum disorder (plural spectrum disorders)

However, there is no reliable evidence on the incidence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in the United Kingdom.

2007 June 9, Lisa Hitchen, “Doctors advise women not to drink alcohol during pregnancy”, in British Medical Journal, volume 334, number 7605, page 1186:

Today, many researchers believe that compulsive buying should be considered as exhibiting elements of both obsessive-compulsive and impulse-control disorders, calling this theory obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder.

2008 Dec., Nancy M. Ridgway at al., "Doctors advise women not to drink alcohol during pregnancy," vol. 35, no. 4, p. 623

[T]he proportion of relatives shown as affected with schizophrenia actually consists of definite plus uncertain diagnoses of schizophrenia plus a hard-to-define category of "schizophrenia spectrum disorder".

1975, R. N. Curnow, Charles Smith, “Multifactorial Models for Familial Diseases in Man”, in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, volume 138, number 2, page 165:

(medicine, psychology, pathology) A physiological or psychological disorder which may take any of a range of forms or be indicated by any of a range of symptoms.


abandoned child syndrome

(psychology) A behavioral or psychological condition that results from the loss or emotional neglect of one or both parents, manifesting a variety of physical and emotional symptoms.


D-MER

dysphoric milk ejection reflex
dysphoric milk ejection reflex#English

(clinical psychology) Initialism of dysphoric milk ejection reflex.


dysphoric milk ejection reflex

dysphoric milk ejection reflex (uncountable)

milk ejection reflex
milk ejection reflex

(clinical psychology) A brief dysphoria just prior to the milk ejection reflex.


antisociality

(sociology, psychology) The quality of being antisocial.


interpsychic

In contrast, for individuals with an interpsychic focus, suicidality is often related to interpersonal struggles[…]

2009, Ellen T. Kahn-Greene, Chronic vs. acute suicidal risk, page 19:


mentalization

mentalization (usually uncountable, plural mentalizations)

(psychology) The ability to understand mental states that underlies the overt behaviour of oneself or others.


defense mechanism

defense mechanism (plural defense mechanisms)

Calque of German Abwehrmechanismus, a concept in the Freudian model.

(psychology) A psychological strategy used unconsciously by people to cope with harmful or stressful situations.


antiflow

A second source of antiflow for the blue-collar workers was the type of interaction they had with supervisors.

1992, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Isabella Selega Csikszentmihályi, Optimal experience: psychological studies of flow in consciousness, page 135:

(psychology) A mental state of boredom and lack of challenge, associated with performing activities one does not want to do.