high-functioning

en-adj

high-functioning (comparative more high-functioning or higher functioning or higher-functioning, superlative most high-functioning or highest functioning or highest-functioning)

more high-functioning (comparative)
higher functioning (comparative)
higher-functioning (comparative)
most high-functioning (superlative)
highest functioning (superlative)
highest-functioning (superlative)

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A unit wide behavioral programming system for high functioning mentally retarded clients who displayed maladaptive behavioral excesses...

1986 January 24, R.M. Fox, D.R. Bechtel, C. Bird, J. Livesay, R. Bittle, “A comprehensive institutional treatment program for aggressive-disruptive high functioning mentally retarded persons”, in Behavioral Residential Treatment, volume 1, number 1, →ISSN, pages 39–56:

(psychology, of persons with developmental or intellectual disability or mental illness) Able to function in society; not greatly affected by a disability or illness.

Analysis of Wechsler IQ test scores for high-functioning autistic children and adults with Verbal and Full Scale IQ≥70 only partially supports previous contentions about the presence of a distinct profile of scores in autism.

1996 August 24, Don J. Siegel, Nancy J. Minshew, “Wechsler IQ profiles in diagnosis of high-functioning autism”, in Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, volume 26, number 4, →ISSN, page 400:

(psychology, of persons with autism) Showing relatively high cognitive function.


transmodal

The highest level of cognitive processing occurs in regions referred to as transmodal areas. These areas are composed of heteromodal, paralimbic, and limbic regions that are collectively linked, in parallel, to other transmodal regions.

2015, Theodore A. Stern, Maurizio Fava, Timothy E. Wilens, Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 806:

(psychology) Relating to more than one sense, cognitive process, or region of the brain.


family romance

From family + romance, in psychoanalytic sense after German Familienroman.

Every encounter with friend or foe, every clash with or submission to authority bears the perverse traces of family romance.

(psychoanalysis) A childhood fantasy whereby a child imagines that their real parents are in fact royalty or otherwise of high birth; (loosely), the emotional ties linking the various members of a family.


reptilian brain

en-noun

reptilian brain (plural reptilian brains)

(anatomy, psychology) The primitive part of the human brain that mirrors that of reptiles, controlling instinctive behavior.


pseudohomosexual

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(psychology) According to Lionel Ovesey: having become a (male) homosexual as a result of abnormal interpersonal relationships, rather than having an innate homosexual orientation.


korophile

From Ancient Greek κόρος (kóros, “boy, youth”) and φῐ́λης (phĭ́lēs, “lover”).

korophilia

the state of being attracted to boys or young men

korephilia

the state of being attracted to girls or young women

For quotations using this term, see Citations:korophile.

(psychology, uncommon, perhaps dated) An adult woman who is sexually attracted to adolescent girls or young women.


SWS

sudden wealth syndrome
w:sudden wealth syndrome

(psychology) Initialism of sudden wealth syndrome.


displacement activity

en-noun

displacement activity (plural displacement activities)

First mentions in 1940 by two Dutch researchers Nikolaas Tinbergen and Adriaan Kortlandt

(psychology) Aimless, often self-comforting behavior displayed when in doubt, blocked or frustrated.


intermorbid

the intermorbid functioning of a bipolar patient

(medicine, psychiatry) Between morbid episodes.


visual space

(cognition, philosophy, psychology) The visual world as subjectively perceived by an aware observer.


pseudo-empathy

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(psychology) The understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person, but without identification, care or urge to improve their condition.

(psychology) The power to manipulate another person's emotional condition for one's own benefit.


extrapunitive

en-adj

extrapunitive (comparative more extrapunitive, superlative most extrapunitive)

more extrapunitive (comparative)
most extrapunitive (superlative)


white bear problem

ironic process theory
ironic process theory

(psychology) The problem posed by ironic process theory, where, for example, explicitly trying not to think about a white bear makes one more likely to think of it.


ironic process theory

(psychology) The theory of the psychological process whereby deliberate attempts to suppress certain thoughts make them more likely to surface.


Coolidge effect

en-noun

Coolidge effect (plural Coolidge effects)

First used in a 1955 publication by behavioral endocrinologist Frank A. Beach, to whom it was suggested by a student, in reference to a joke about US president Calvin Coolidge and sexual promiscuity.

(biology, psychology) A phenomenon in animal species whereby males (and to a lesser extent females) exhibit renewed sexual interest if introduced to new receptive sexual partners, even after cessation of sex with prior but still available sexual partners.


imploder

To a certain extent anger is natural. The therapeutic question is to determine how anger affects attitude and managerial skills. In general, anger behaviour results in the so-called anger personalities: the exploders and the imploders.

2012, Daniël Louw, Network of the Human Soul, page 157:

Imploders have a tendency to hold in their stress for long periods of time […]

(psychology) A person who directs their anger inward.


women are wonderful effect

the women are wonderful effect (canonical)

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(psychology, sociology) The phenomenon in psychological and sociological research that people seem to associate more positive attributes with women in general than with men in general, reflecting an emotional bias.


Karpman drama triangle

Karpman drama triangle (plural Karpman drama triangles)

First described in 1968 by Stephen Karpman.

(psychology) A social model of a particular kind of conflict in human interactions, involving three people: a victim, a persecutor (who blames the victim), and a rescuer (who attempts to aid the victim).


vicarious embarrassment

vicarious embarrassment (countable and uncountable, plural vicarious embarrassments)

It is noted that vicarious embarrassment does not necessarily indicate the presence of an embarrassed other.

1996, Rom Harré, W. Gerrod Parrott, editors, The Emotions: Social, Cultural and Biological Dimensions, SAGE, →ISBN, page 124:

The same brain regions, the study found, are implicated in vicarious embarrassment – watching President Obama give an awkward hug of his own to departing press secretary Jay Carney, say – as they are when empathizing with the physical pain of others.

2014 July 17, Oliver Burkeman, “No, I won't watch that cringe-inducing viral video. I'm a better person than you”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(psychology) The uncomfortable sympathetic feeling experienced while watching someone else embarrass themselves.


Bionian

en-adj

Bionian (comparative more Bionian, superlative most Bionian)

more Bionian (comparative)
most Bionian (superlative)

(psychoanalysis) Of or relating to Wilfred Bion (1897–1979), influential British psychoanalyst.


egonet

(Internet, psychology) The network of people affected by the ego of a particular user of a social network


cenesthopathy

/ˌsiːnəsˈθɒpəθi/

First attested 1907, borrowed from French cénestopathie, coined by Ernest Dupré and Paul Camus, from Ancient Greek κοινός (koinós, “common”) + αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “perception from the senses”) + πάθος (páthos, “suffering, misery, condition”).

(psychiatry) Disordered cenesthesia; a psychopathological symptom characterised by generalised abnormal sensations in the body.


critical period

en-noun

critical period (plural critical periods)

(psychology, biology) A maturational stage in the lifespan of an organism during which the nervous system is especially sensitive to certain environmental stimuli.


hyperexpansive

Fanaticism, however, chooses no favorites, as Hoffer (1951) concludes, and so we presently turn to hyperexpansive prejudice.

1990, Kirk J. Schneider, The paradoxical self:

In cases of on-going, chronic trauma, on the other hand, Schneider suggests that the child may become unable to counteract, and thereby conform to their hyperconstrictive or hyperexpansive pressures.

2003, Mick Cooper, Existential Therapies, →ISBN, page 86:

Whether an individual in HIV-related psychotherapy manifests a hyperexpansive or hyperconstricted existential position vis-à-vis death anxiety, the therapeutic goal is to bring about movement to a more centered position in which the individual is able to accept the seriousness of the illness while also continuing to go about living as fully as possible within the constraints of the disease.

2004, Florence W. Kaslow, Robert F. Massey, Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, →ISBN, page 317:

(psychology) Overly expansive and outgoing, tending toward chaos and confusion.


antipanic

It has been suggested that antidepressants are effective as antipanic and antiphobic agents only in depressed patients[…]

2006, Paul J. Perry, Psychotropic drug handbook, page 314:

(psychology, pharmacology) Countering panic.


deconfusion

If we are using Berne's principle that decontamination precedes deconfusion, the process of resolution (treatment direction) of associated script decisions can be considered to run parallel to this, but running in the opposite direction.

2009, Mark Widdowson, Transactional Analysis: 100 Key Points and Techniques, →ISBN, page 275:

The methodology for deconfusion consists of an analysis of the domains of transference together with the therapist's use of emphatic transaction... The aim of deconfusion is the transformation of unconscious processes such as archaic, domrant and conflicted aspects of self, into a more conscious, vibrant and mature dynamic.

2012, Michele Novellino, The Transactional Analyst in Action: Clinical Seminars, →ISBN, page 144:

These are signs that decontamination has taken place but deconfusion has not yet been established.

2013, Petruska Clarkson, Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy: An Integrated Approach, →ISBN:

transactional analysis
transactional analysis

(psychology) A stage of transactional analysis that consists in shedding light on repressed needs and feelings from an earlier child ego state.


small penis syndrome

(psychology, sexology) An anxious belief that one's own penis size may be smaller than average.


autokabalesis

Intentionally truncated form of *autokataballesis from auto- + Ancient Greek καταβάλλω (katabállō) + -esis, in the sense of "act of throwing oneself down".

af

grc:καταβάλλω

quote-journal

1979, Andrew Sims and Kenneth O'Brien, “Autokabalesis: An Account of Mentally Ill People Who Jump from Buildings”, in Medicine, Science and the Law, volume 19, number 3, page 1:

(psychiatry) Jumping from a significant height to the ground as an act of suicide or due to psychiatric disorder.


Dermatozoenwahn

Delusional parasitosis
delusional parasitosis

(psychiatry) Delusional parasitosis (delusional disorder in which individuals incorrectly believe they are infested with parasites, insects, or bugs).


Pfropfschizophrenie

(psychiatry) Alternative letter-case form of pfropfschizophrenie (“schizophrenia in individuals with premorbid cognitive impairment”).


stasibasiphobia

Apparently from Ancient Greek στᾰ́σῐς (stắsĭs, “standing”) + basiphobia.

der

(psychiatry) The fear of standing and walking.


pfropfschizophrenie

Borrowed from German Pfropfschizophrenie.

(psychiatry) Schizophrenia in individuals with premorbid cognitive impairment.


differential psychologist

en-noun

differential psychologist (plural differential psychologists)

differential psychology
differential psychology#English

(psychology) A psychologist who focuses their studies on differential psychology.


aphantasia

From a- + phantasia. From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + φαντασία (phantasía, “perception, impression, image, look, appearance”), coined in a 2015 article.

But aphantasia not only impacts people’s learning experiences; it also extends into their personal lives. Not being able to visualize means never picturing the faces of family or close friends and remembering images as abstract information.

2020 July 15, Serena Puang, “Living With Aphantasia, the Inability to Make Mental Images”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(psychology, pathology) A condition where one does not possess a functioning "mind's eye" and cannot visualize imagery.

anauralia

inner voice; the absence of auditory imagery, particularly the lack of an .


internal monologue

internal monologue (plural internal monologues)

(communication, psychology) The inner voice of a person which provides a running verbal monologue of their thoughts, important in planning, problem solving, self-reflection, etc.

anauralia

the absence of auditory imagery, particularly the lack of an inner voice.


ocnophil

People who need other people around them much of the time are people whose well-being depends massively on the feelings of others towards them. This alarms the philobats (the spacebats), but the ocnophils (the homebodies) like it that way.

2018, Josephine Klein, Doubts and Certainties in the Practice of Psychotherapy:

(psychology) A personality type characterised by avoidance of dangerous of unfamiliar situations, and the reliance on other people for security.


AHS

alien hand syndrome
alien hand syndrome#English

(neurology, psychiatry) Initialism of alien hand syndrome.


alien hand syndrome

alien hand syndrome (countable and uncountable, plural alien hand syndromes)

(neurology, psychiatry) A condition in which a person experiences their limbs acting seemingly on their own, without control over the actions.


schizothymia

From schizo- + -thymia.
From Ancient Greek σχῐ́ζω (skhĭ́zō, “to split”) + θῡμός (thūmós, “temper, disposition”). Compare cyclothymia.

der

schizoid personality disorder
schizoid personality disorder

(psychiatry) A temperament characterised by elements of schizophrenia or schizoid personality disorder, while still within the bounds of normality.


histrionicity

(psychiatry) The condition of being histrionic.


cleptoparasitosis

delusory cleptoparasitosis

(psychiatry) Arthropod infestation in the home, or the belief thereof.


folie à trois

From French folie à trois (“madness of three (people)”).

(psychiatry) A form of shared psychotic disorder in which three individuals have the same or similar delusional beliefs, usually by transference.


egosyntonicity

(psychology, psychiatry) The quality of being egosyntonic.


egodystonicity

The patient's shame about his condition would be consistent with the psychoanalytic viewpoint that the homosexual really wants, instinctively, to be exclusively heterosexual. The admitted ("committed" or "overt") homosexual is far more exotic, controversial and threatening to the traditional psychoanalyst than one who exhibits the more familiar ego-dystonicity.

1979 August 11, Lawrence Mass, “Psychiatry on Trial”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 8:

(psychology, psychiatry) The quality of being egodystonic.


psychocognitive

(psychology) Relating to the forms of mental processing that underpin cognition.


dissociogenic

From dis- + socio- + -genic, based on dissociation.

(psychiatry, psychology) Provoking dissociations.


obsessive-compulsiveness

(psychiatry) The state of being obsessive-compulsive.


pathological liar

en-noun

pathological liar (plural pathological liars)

(psychology) A person who tells lies frequently and compulsively.

fraudster

not to be confused; differing neuropsychological mechanisms


automaticism

(psychology) An action performed subconsciously, without any apparent direction from the mind; automatism.


folie du doute

Borrowed from French folie du doute (literally “madness of doubt”).

bor

(psychiatry) Pathological doubting about all affairs of life and indecisiveness in choice situations.


folie à familie

en-noun

folie à familie (plural folies à familie)

(psychiatry) Delusional beliefs shared by multiple, if not all, members of a family.


delibidinization

(psychoanalysis) The process of delibidinizing.


deaggressivization

(psychoanalysis) Neutralising the urges of aggression.


schizotypality

(psychiatry) The state or quality of being schizotypal.


somniphobia

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Due to somniphobia, Jason has a compulsive habit of getting out of bed and changing his clothes at night.

People may worry throughout the day about not being able to sleep. This worry can cause difficulties with focus or concentration. Often, somniphobia arises from a fear of having nightmares or experiencing sleep paralysis.

2022, Cleveland Clinic, Somniphobia (Fear of Sleep):

(uncommon, psychology) Fear of falling asleep; fear of a disaster while sleeping.


repersonalization

repersonalization (countable and uncountable, plural repersonalizations)

(psychology, psychiatry) The regaining of the sense of self regarding one's mind or body; the cessation of depersonalization.


echophenomenon

(psychiatry) Any of a group of automatic imitative actions performed without explicit awareness of the individual, including echolalia, echopraxia, echographia and so forth.


coprophenomenon

(psychiatry) Any psychopathological phenomenon (in particular an automatic behaviour or preoccupation) that involves obscenity or faeces, such as coprolalia, copropraxia, coprophilia and so forth.


prosopometamorphopsia

First used in 1953 by British neurologist MacDonald Critchley, from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “face”) + English metamorphopsia (“distorted vision”).

cog

Coordinate term: prosopagnosia

(psychiatry) A disorder of facial perception, in which the patient perceives people's faces as distorted, often with morbid affective features.


obsessoid

obsessive-compulsive disorder
obsessive-compulsive disorder

(psychiatry, of personality) Showing resemblance to obsessive-compulsive disorder.


hallucinogenicity

(psychiatry) The quality of being hallucinogenic, i.e. being able to induce hallucinations.


oral stage

(psychoanalysis) In Freudian psychoanalysis, the first stage of psychosexual development, during early infancy, when the baby's mouth is their primary erogenous zone.


father hunger

Father hunger appears to be a crucial motivational variable in matters as diverse as caretaking, sexual orientation, moral development, and achievement level.

1990, Reuben Fine, The History of Psychoanalysis, expanded edition, page 630:

Father hunger is the deep, but often unconscious, longing young men, and even older men, have for affirmation from male authority figures.

2006, Christopher P. Mason, Crossing into Manhood, page 118:

Bill Clinton, like many presidents, may have had what men's movement activist Robert Bly has called “father hunger.”

2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties, Twelve Books:

(psychology) The longing felt by (especially young) men for approbation from a father, or father figure.


CPP

en-noun

CPP (countable and uncountable, plural CPPs)

conditioned place preference
w:conditioned place preference

(psychology) Initialism of conditioned place preference.


echomimia

From Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ, “echo”) + mimic.

(psychiatry) Involuntary imitation of the movements of people in the surroundings.


cenesthopathic

From cenestho- (“cenesthesia”) + -pathic (“suffering, disease”).

af

"Most notably, Huber described a subtype called ‘cenesthetic schizophrenia’, and the term ‘cenesthopathic schizophrenia’ is included within the category ‘other schizophrenia’ (F20.8) in ICD-10 classification."

2009, G. RajenderK. Kanwalet al., “Study of cenesthesias and body image aberration in schizophrenia”, in Indian Journal of Psychiatry, page 195:

(psychiatry) Of, relating to, or characterised by cenesthopathy.

cénestopathique

of, relating to, or characterised by cenesthopathy


personology

(psychology) A theory of personality psychology advanced by Henry Murray and others.


debilism

Compare Polish debilizm and Russian дебилизм (debilizm), ultimately from Latin debilis (“weak; disabled”). By surface analysis, debile + -ism.

Psychological examinations Lower intelligence levels predominated in group B (in 5 out of 7 persons examined, including debilism in 2, and mental retardation in 3).

1971, Polish Endocrinology, volume 22, page 147:

- Type 1: low intelligence [the ability of distinguishing various stimuli], low docility [the ability of memorizing any stimuli], low talent [the ability of associating some particular stimuli]. Such type is called "debilism".

[1977 [1976], Marian Mazur, “Cybernetic Cognition of Intellect”, in Proceedings of the International Congress for Cybernetics, volume 8, Namur: Association Internationale de Cybernétique, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128:

The old psychiatrists of Eastern Europe also included in their taxonomy "debilism" or "salon debils". This is a qualitative anomaly understood as hereditary and somewhat similar to schizoidia. Such individuals were generally decent, but marked by flat, coaxing talkativeness and an inability to understand any sort of serious matter.

2006, Andrew M. Lobaczewski, Political Ponerology, Afterword, p. 221-222

Among the diseases eligible for such surgical intervention [i.e. sterilization], the following medical conditions were included: debilism, schizophrenia, manic-depressive disorder, […]

2019 September 30, Kasper Sipowicz, Tadeusz Pietras, “Life unworthy of life – eugenics of “deteriorated” people in the Third Reich”, in Quarterly Journal Fides Et Ratio, volume 39, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, page 314:

(psychology) A hereditary condition characterized by low intelligence in which one can understand words but not abstract concepts.


Rorschach

en-noun

Rorschach (countable and uncountable, plural Rorschachs)

(informal, psychology) A Rorschach test.


emetophobe

/ɪˈmɛtəˌfəʊb/

Is there anyone sitting wrapped in a towel holding a bowl? If there is you can bet your life an emetophobe will not stay.

2007, Nicolette Heaton-Harris, “Illness”, in Living with Emetophobia: Coping with Extreme Fear of Vomiting, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 61:

For those of you who are not familiar, I will try to outline the nature of emetophobia, at least the way I experience it. It stems ultimately from a fear of losing control of one's body. Vomiting is unavoidable, violent, and sometimes unpredictable. It isn't fun for anyone (well, almost anyone), but for an emetophobe it becomes a life or death situation.

2011 September 26, Michelle Clement, “My experience with emetophobia, and some questions for the blogosphere”, in Scientific American:

A lot of emetophobes are particularly terrified of vomiting in public – many cite a fear of losing control and of others finding them repulsive.

2015 January 26, Katie Grant, “How I beat my fear of vomiting: ‘Eating frightens me’”, in The Independent:

(psychology) One who fears vomit or regurgitation; one suffering from emetophobia.


antiautistic

en-adj

antiautistic (comparative more antiautistic, superlative most antiautistic)

more antiautistic (comparative)
most antiautistic (superlative)

[…] whereas for withdrawn, chronic schizophrenics who cut themselves off from the outside world he will tend to select a preparation having an anti-autistic effect.

1983, Rene Spiegel, Pyschopharmacology: An Introduction, page 5:

At higher doses, it is antiautistic, disinhibiting and resocializing, all effects useful in treating chronic psychoses.

1989, Harry Schwartz, Breakthrough: The Discovery of Modern Medicines at Janssen, page 78:

Those preparations prescribed in particularly small doses act not only anti-psychotic but also antiautistic.

1992, B. Luban-Plozza, W. Pöldinger, F. Kröger, Psychosomatic Disorders in General Practice, page 212:

(pharmacology, psychiatry, of a drug) Tending to reduce lethargy or withdrawn emotional states.

In one case, for instance, we felt that we could detect three antiautistic features in the mother.

1961 November, Mary A. Sarvis, Blanche Garcia, “Etiological Variables in Autism”, in Psychiatry, volume 24, number 4, page 309:

(dated, psychiatry) Countering autism or autistic behaviour.


geometrism

(philosophy, psychology) A worldview based on geometric thinking or metaphor.


pansexualism

Attested since 1917 (a few years earlier than pansexual, which see for more).

And so we are back at pansexualism. It cannot, however, be too often insisted that, though Freud heavily emphasized the element of sexuality in human nature, he utterly rejected pansexualism, which he regarded as a travesty of his theory; and on many occasions he explicitly and energetically denied the equation of all instinctual life with sexuality.

1981, Richard Wollheim, Sigmund Freud, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 114:

[W]e are positing that theoretical pansexualism is but the reflection of a real pansexualism, that is, of a movement by which sexuality reinvests the entirety of human activities. Sexuality is not everything, but it is everywhere.

2017, Christopher Christian, Morris N. Eagle, David L Wolitzky, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Conflict, Routledge, →ISBN:

(psychology, historical) The psychological theory that all human activity (mental and physical) is based on sexuality.


pansexualist

Wilhelm Fliess's critic Henning commented about both Fliess and Freud in this light when he complained of their joint efforts to displace the Darwinian "principle of selection" in favor of a rampant pansexualist philosophy (1910:232).

1992, Frank J. Sulloway, Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 256:

(psychology) Pertaining to or promoting the psychological theory of pansexualism.


pansexualist

Even Wilhelm Reich, who could be described as a more radical pansexualist than Freud himself, could not help speculating on the following lines...

2013, Paul Halmos, Solitude and Privacy: A Study of Social Isolation, its Causes and Therapy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 9:

Yet Freud, one must insist, was not a pansexualist. He rejected the epithet with considerable acerbity, not because he was secretly a one-sided adulator of libido, but because, quite simply; he thought that his denigrators were wrong.

2006, Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 149:

Both he and Banks were alarmed to find clear and unmistakable evidence of cannibalism, although it was the practice of sodomy that most intrigued Banks; although a voracious heterosexual, he was hardly a pansexualist.

2011, Frank McLynn, Captain Cook: Master of the Seas, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 138:

(psychology) A proponent of the psychological theory of pansexualism.


allopsychic

(psychology) Relating to the relationship between the mind and the outside world.


autopsychic

(psychology) Relating to the perception of one's own mind


alteregoism

(psychology, philosophy) Altruism as a result of the identification of others with oneself.


appersonation

(psychology) The act or process of appersonating


appersonate

en-verb

appersonate (third-person singular simple present appersonates, present participle appersonating, simple past and past participle appersonated)

appersonates (present singular third-person)
appersonating (participle present)
appersonated (participle past)
appersonated (past)

(psychology) To unconsciously assume the characteristics of another person


beneffectance

Blend of beneficence + effectance. Coined by psychologist Anthony Greenwald in 1980.

(psychology) Perception of responsibility for desired outcomes, but not for undesired ones.


fake it till one makes it

fake<> it till one makes<makes,makes,made> it

fake it till one makes it (third-person singular simple present fakes it till one makes it, present participle faking it till one makes it, simple past and past participle faked it till one made it)

fakes it till one makes it (present singular third-person)
faking it till one makes it (participle present)
faked it till one made it (participle past)
faked it till one made it (past)

It gave me a chance to be able to see certain things that I like, and I was like, I just had to find my way, what I was good at in life so I could get those things. I just had to um… fake it till I make it.

2015, 9:32 from the start, in Lauren Greenfield, director, Magic City (documentary):

He framed her crimes as “chutzpah” and “moxie”, arguing that the accepted rule of New York’s elite social scene was “fake it until you make it”. He also blamed the influence of social media-obsessed culture.

2019 May 31, Edward Helmore, “'Fake it until you make it': the strange case of New York's socialite scammer”, in The Guardian:

So many other people fake it till they make it, but that never justifies not bringing charges when someone has committed fraud.

2021 August 30, Erin Griffith, Erin Woo, quoting Alex Gibney, “Schemer or Naïf? Elizabeth Holmes Is Going to Trial.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(psychology) To pretend to be a certain way until one becomes that way.


nominative determinism

A little-known aspect of pop sociology called nominative determinism intrigued Rory Honeyman for a very good reason. Except for a concatenation of historical accidents, he would have fallen under its purview himself.

2003, Paul Di Filippo, chapter 2, in Spondulix: A Romance of Hoboken, Open Road Integrated Media:

I need hardly add that he is a prime example of that scientific principle known as nominative determinism — being a man who uses telescopes, called I. Glass!

2010, Steve Ringwood, Astronomers Anonymous: Getting Help with the Puzzles and Pitfalls of Practical Astronomy, Springer, page ix:

Nominative determinism is usually applied to the idea that someone's name may influence their future. Would Usain Bolt have run as swiftly with the name “Usain Plod”?

2016, Caroline Barchelder, The Gender Conversation: Evangelical Perspectives on Gender, Scripture, and the Christian Life, Morling Press, page 218

(psychology, semantics) A supposed tendency for people to become active in subjects that relate or correspond to their names.


SIB

en-noun

SIB (countable and uncountable, plural SIBs)

(clinical psychology, usually uncountable) Initialism of self-injurious behavior.


Jocasta complex

Jocasta complex (plural Jocasta complexes)

Introduced by Raymond de Saussure in 1920, after the character Jocasta from Greek mythology.

(psychology) The incestuous sexual desire of a mother towards her son.


scheme theory

With these ideas of scheme theory, perturbation, and abstraction, it becomes possible to see how metacognition might be interpreted in constructivist terms.

1998, Douglas J. Hacker, Metacognition in Educational Theory and Practice, page 78:

(psychology) A theory of group decision-making which explains group decisions as the result of a decision scheme on the initial distribution of attitudes in the group.


achievement age

achievement age (plural achievement ages)

(psychology) The level of an individual's educational development, as measured by a standardized test, expressed in terms of the chronological age of a normal person with the same degree of educational attainment.


extrajection

(psychology) The projection of one's own psychic process to another person


Krishaber's disease

Krishaber's disease Wikidata (canonical)

Named after Hungarian-French physician Maurice Krishaber (1836-1883), who described the condition.

Dr. Berti has described two cases of what seems to be now called “Krishaber’s disease”, and is really chronic vertigo, gradually increasing in intensity, and not connected with anæmia, epilepsy, or affection of the internal ear or stomach.

1877, J.A. Gasquet, “Italian Psychological Literature”, in Journal of Mental Science, volume 22, number 100, page 632:

(medicine, psychiatry) An anxiety disorder comprising symptoms of tachycardia, vertigo, and insomnia with no apparent physical cause; neurocirculatory asthenia.


ambiverted

From ambiver(sion) + -ed, modelled after extroverted and introverted.

(psychology) Neither extroverted nor introverted, but having characteristics of each.

ambivertido

neither extroverted nor introverted, but having characteristics of each


wendigo psychosis

/ˈwɛndɪɡəʊ saɪˈkəʊsɪs/

"Windigo psychosis" has been the most celebrated culture trait of the Northern Algonkian peoples for almost half a century. […] The conclusion reached is that, although aspects of the windigo belief complex may have been "components in some individuals' psychological dysfunction" (Preston 1980: 128), there probably never were any windigo psychotics in the sense that cannibalism or murder was committed to satisfy an obsessional craving for human flesh. It is argued, rather that windigo psychosis as an etic/behavioral form of anthropophagy is an artifact of research conducted with an emic/mental bias.

1982 August, Lou Marano, “Windigo Psychosis: The Anatomy of an Emic–Etic Confusion”, in Current Anthropology, volume 23, number 4, →JSTOR, abstract, page 385; reprinted in Ronald C. Simons and Charles C[ampbell] Hughes, editors, The Culture-bound Syndromes: Folk Illnesses of Psychiatric and Anthropological Interest (Culture, Illness, and Healing), Dordrecht, Netherlands: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1985, →DOI, →ISBN, page 411:

(psychology) A psychological condition specific to some Native American groups, in which a person in fever-induced delusions believes that they are possessed by a cannibalistic wendigo spirit, or in which members of the groups hysterically believe a person to be so possessed.


parentify

en-verb

parentify (third-person singular simple present parentifies, present participle parentifying, simple past and past participle parentified)

parentifies (present singular third-person)
parentifying (participle present)
parentified (participle past)
parentified (past)

(intransitive, sociology, psychology) To cause (a child) to act as a parent to its own parent or sibling.


nonconserver

(education, psychology) A person who has not yet learned 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.


conflict training

(education, psychology) A Piagetian form of cognitive training in which a person who does not yet understand a concept and others who do understand it are encouraged to discuss it as a group and formulate a consensus.


horticulturalism

(psychology) The idea, opposing interventionism, that people do not need explicit instruction from others in order to develop cognition, but can be nurtured to develop cognition individually.


hyperidentification

(psychology) excessive identification with somebody else


ovulatory shift hypothesis

(biology, psychology) The hypothesis that women's taste in men, and subconscious thoughts and behaviors, change throughout the menstrual cycle.


anxietize

anxietize (third-person singular simple present anxietizes, present participle anxietizing, simple past and past participle anxietized)

anxietizes (present singular third-person)
anxietizing (participle present)
anxietized (participle past)
anxietized (past)

(psychology, intransitive, reflexive) To undergo anxiety; to feel anxious.


metaphysiology

(psychology) Questions concerning the mind and life as opposed to the physical body


protosexual

the protosexual experiences of the child

(psychology) Of or relating to formative experiences with regard to sexuality in early life.


precrastination

en-noun

precrastination (usually uncountable, plural precrastinations)

/pɹiːˌkɹæstɪˈneɪʃə̆n/

My colleagues and I called this tendency “precrastination.” The term was meant to connote the opposite of procrastination, the tendency to put off until later what you can do right away. Pre-crastination is the tendency to do too soon what might be better done later.

2017, David A. Rosenbaum, Knowing Hands: The Cognitive Psychology of Manual Control, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 234:

Lanyun Gong and Cory Potts, the two students with whom I did this work, and I conducted a number of experiments to check our precrastination interpretation.

It is foreseeable that if we do not enjoy the process involved in completing a task, we will choose procrastination or precrastination to minimize the time we need to spend to do a task.

2017, Wasif Haq, Interpreting Procrastination; Key to Success, Happiness and Wellness, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN, page 81:

The precrastination effect is the finding that individuals complete actions earlier to "get it out of the way" (Rosenbaum, Gong, & Potts, 2014). In the current study, we tested precrastination with a prospective memory (PM) paradigm to determine if this phenomenon generalizes to PM tasks that can be completed at a time chosen by the participant.

2018, Rachel VonderHaar, “Pre-Crastination Effects in a Prospective Memory Task”, in Illinois State University Research Symposium, volume 155:

(psychology) The completion of a task too quickly or too early for the optimal outcome; the compulsion to act in this way.


petite perception

petite perception (plural petite perceptions or petites perceptions)

petite perceptions (plural)
petites perceptions (plural)

Petite perceptions, though insensible, have an overall effect.

2013, D.A. Anapolitanos, Leibniz: Representation, Continuity and the Spatiotemporal:

(psychology) A sensation (sight, sound, etc) that is perceived but not registered because it is too insignificant, such as the sound of each raindrop hitting a roof.


futureness

futureness (countable and uncountable, plural futurenesses)

/ˈfjʉːt͡ʃɘnɘs/

To our conclusion, that TIME is the equivalent of Pastness, Presentness, and Futureness, combined, it may be objected, that the word Time is applicable to all the three cases; as we can say, past time, present time, and future time, all with equal propriety.

1829, James Mill, Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind, Volume 2, page 103:

What is posited as future is just the futureness of a sprout. That is, the sprout that will come is not future since when it exists, it exists at the present time.

1990, Daniel Cozort, Unique Tenets of The Middle Way Consequence School: The Systematization of the Philosophy of the Indian Buddhist Prāsaṅgika- Mādhyamika School by the Tibetan Ge-luk-ba Scholastic Tradition, page 225:

Furthermore, just as with the two passive syntheses, the third constitutive synthesis is a perspective of time giving us the elements of the futureness of the present and the futureness of the past.

2016 September 8, David Deamer, Deleuze's Cinema Books: Three Introductions to the Taxonomy of Images, page 49:

(philosophy, psychology) The quality of occurring in, being, or being related to the future.


hypocognition

/ˌhaɪpəʊkɒɡˈnɪʃn̩/

Coined from hypo- + cognition by Robert Levy.

(psychology, linguistics) Inability to discuss or process a concept because of lacking a word for it.


allothetic

(psychology) Having an external point of view.


psychomorphology

(psychology) A branch of psychology that deals with transitions (morphings) in the mind


obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (plural obsessive-compulsive personality disorders)

personality disorder
personality disorder

(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized by an extreme pattern of concern with orderliness, perfectionism, excessive attention to details, mental and interpersonal control.

trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo de la personalidad


passive-aggressive personality disorder

passive-aggressive personality disorder (usually uncountable, plural passive-aggressive personality disorders)

(psychiatry) A proposed personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of negativistic attitudes and passive resistance to demands for adequate performance in social and occupational situations.


depressive personality disorder

depressive personality disorder (usually uncountable, plural depressive personality disorders)

depressive personality disorders (plural)

(psychiatry) A proposed personality disorder characterized by depressive features.


self-defeating personality disorder

self-defeating personality disorder (usually uncountable, plural self-defeating personality disorders)

self-defeating personality disorders (plural)

(psychiatry) A proposed personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of self-defeating behavior, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.


haltlose personality disorder

haltlose personality disorder (uncountable)

From haltlose (floundering, aimless, irresponsible lifestyle) + personality disorder.

People with chronic alcohol dependency have been said, not uncommonly, to have haltlose personality disorder. Those with haltlose personality disorder have features of frontal lobe syndrome, sociopathic and histrionic personality traits.

2000 June, Claus Langmaack, “Haltlose type personality disorder (ICD-10 F60. 8)”, in Psychiatric Bulletin, volume 24, number 6:

Nevertheless, the most disturbing aspect of this patient's life was his complete selfish, hedonistic, irresponsible, drifting, and aimless lifestyle, along with a complete lack of hold on life or on his self. His life history led us to study the fascinating concept of Bleuler's haltlose personality disorder, which came naturally as a comorbid diagnosis, based on some of the features now explained (Table 1).

2017 October, João Gama Marques, “Pharmacogenetic testing for the guidance of psychiatric treatment of a schizoaffective patient with haltlose personality disorder.”, in CNS Spectrums:

Non-limiting examples of adult personality and behavior disorders that affect the central nervous system include: a specific personality disorder (e.g., paranoid personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, a dissocial personality disorder—such as antisocial personality disorder—an emotionally unstable personality disorder—such as borderline personality disorder—histrionic personality disorder, an anankastic personality disorder—such as obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, anxious (avoidant) personality disorder, dependent personality disorder, eccentric personality disorder, haltlose personality disorder, immature personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, passive-aggressive personality disorder, or psychoneurotic personality disorder); mixed personality disorder; a habit or impulse disorder (e.g., pathological gambling, pathological fire-setting (pyromania), pathological stealing (kleptomania), or trichotillomania); and Munchausen syndrome.

2018, Glenda Wrenn, Mental health assessment method and kiosk-based system for implementation (Patent application US20180103885A1):

(psychiatry) A ICD-10 personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of selfish, irresponsible and hedonistic behavior.


SzPD

schizoid personality disorder
schizoid personality disorder#English

(psychiatry) Initialism of schizoid personality disorder.


StPD

(psychiatry) Initialism of schizotypal personality disorder.


PPD

PPD (countable and uncountable, plural PPDs)

paranoid personality disorder
paranoid personality disorder#English

(psychiatry) Initialism of paranoid personality disorder.

postpartum depression
postpartum depression#English

(psychiatry) Initialism of postpartum depression.


In the new “DSM-5” manual, “the criteria will incorporate several diagnoses from DSM-IV including autistic disorder, Asperger’s disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder and pervasive developmental disorder (not otherwise specified) into the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder for DSM-5 to help more accurately and consistently diagnose children with autism,” according to an APA statement Saturday.

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:

(psychology) The 2013 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.


DSM-III-R

(psychology) The 1987 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.


DSM-III

(psychology) The 1980 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.


DSM-II

(psychology) The 1968 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.


DSM-I

(psychology) The 1952 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.


Feighner criterion

Feighner criterion (plural Feighner criteria)

Named after John Feighner, the first listed author of the 1972 psychiatric paper that described them.

(psychiatry, chiefly in the plural) Any of a set of influential psychiatric diagnostic criteria developed from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.


pseudoneurotic schizophrenia

(psychiatry) A postulated mental disorder categorized by the presence of two or more symptoms of mental illness such as anxiety, hysteria, and phobic or obsessive-compulsive neuroses.


somatic symptom disorder

somatic symptom disorder (countable and uncountable, plural somatic symptom disorders)

(psychology, psychiatry) Any mental disorder that manifests as physical symptoms that suggest illness or injury, but cannot be explained fully by a general medical condition or by the direct effect of a substance, and are not attributable to another mental disorder.

Somatoforme Störung

Physical symptoms that cannot be explained by a general medical condition


DSM-IV-TR

(psychology) The 2000 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.


spineless sadism

sadistic personality disorder
sadistic personality disorder

avoidant personality disorder
avoidant personality disorder

(historical, psychiatry) One of the four subtypes of sadistic personality disorder, including features of avoidant personality disorder.


tyrannical sadism

passive-aggressive personality disorder
passive-aggressive personality disorder

(historical, psychiatry) One of the four subtypes of sadistic personality disorder, including features of passive-aggressive personality disorder.


enforcing sadism

(historical, psychiatry) One of the four subtypes of sadistic personality disorder, including features of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.


explosive sadism

borderline personality disorder
borderline personality disorder

(historical, psychiatry) One of the four subtypes of sadistic personality disorder, including features of borderline personality disorder.


insipid schizotypal

schizotypal personality disorder
schizotypal personality disorder

depressive personality disorder
depressive personality disorder

dependent personality disorder
dependent personality disorder

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the two subtypes of schizotypal personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of schizoid personality disorder, depressive personality disorder and dependent personality disorder


timorous schizotypal

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the two subtypes of schizotypal personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of avoidant personality disorder and passive-aggressive personality disorder


introversive

en-adj

introversive (comparative more introversive, superlative most introversive)

more introversive (comparative)
most introversive (superlative)


cold-avoidant

cold-avoidant (comparative more cold-avoidant, superlative most cold-avoidant)

more cold-avoidant (comparative)
most cold-avoidant (superlative)

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the two subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by Lynn E. Alden and Martha J. Capreol in 1993. Characterised by an inability to experience and express positive emotion towards others.


exploitable-avoidant

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by Lynn E. Alden and Martha J. Capreol in 1993. Characterised by an inability to express anger towards others or to resist coercion from others. May be at risk for abuse by others.


phobic avoidant

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of dependent personality disorder


high-functioning autism

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(psychiatry) Any form of autism associated with greater communication skills and an IQ at or above 70.


conflicted avoidant

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of passive-aggressive personality disorder


sympathism

(psychology) The habit of positioning oneself as a victim or martyr so as to elicit sympathy from others.


death drive

The connection between the death drive and the symbolic order is a constant with Lacan, but we can differentiate the various stages of his teaching precisely by reference to the different modes of articulation of the death drive and the signifier: […]

1989, Slavoj Žižek, Ernesto Laclau, The Sublime Object of Ideology, Verso, →ISBN, page 131:

(psychoanalysis) The drive toward death and self-destruction.


eidology

(psychology) The study of mental imagery


extratensive

(psychology) Synonym of extroverted (“especially as shown by responses to the Rorschach test”)


extroversive

extroversive (comparative more extroversive, superlative most extroversive)

more extroversive (comparative)
most extroversive (superlative)


utraquism

en-noun

utraquism (countable and uncountable, plural utraquisms)

One of [Sándor Ferenczi's] most productive epistemological ideas is that of utraquism[…]Derived from the Latin utraque, meaning 'one and the other', utraquism is the work of establishing relationships of analogy between distinct elements that belong to distinct fields of knowledge and strata of reality, with the aim of discovering or going deeper into the meaning of certain processes.

2018, Raluca Soreanu, Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising, Palgrave Macmillan, page 37:

(psychoanalysis, specifically) A method that uses analogy to draw on insights from both objective natural science on the one hand, and subjective psychology and social science on the other.


shadow work

(psychology) Any process to become conscious of a shadow aspect in one's subconscious.


cross-battery

(psychology) The use of information from multiple batteries of tests in order to guide diagnostic decisions and to gain a fuller picture of an individual.


eternal now

For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those—few at any moment on the earth—who do not "look before and after, and pine for what is not," but live in the holy carelessness of the eternal now.

1879, George MacDonald, chapter 2, in Sir Gibbie:

We never go beyond the present. […] Tomorrow never comes. Our existence is enclosed within the divine moment, the eternal now.

1884, Warren Felt Evans, The Divine Law of Cure, page 107:

Who is it that needs history the most? Our children, of course. […] Unless they can be won to history, their imagination will be held hostage in the cage of eternal Now: the flickering instant that's gone as soon as it has arrived.

2010 November 9, Simon Schama, “My vision for history in schools”, in Guardian (UK), retrieved 2019-01-02:

Brynner used photography as a way to stay in love with his day job, filling hours spent waiting on film sets by strolling among friends and crew with a Leica slung around his neck. His images reveal a talent for accruing images of subjects utterly at ease in his presence and rare treasures indeed when seen alongside stilted studio publicity visuals. […] These are some of the most noted names of the era and—whether in stylish monochrome or courtesy of Kodachrome’s pinks and yellows—they appear rapt and relaxed, exhilarated to be living their kind of life in a sun-drenched, eternal now.

2012 January 14, Lucy Davies, “Yul Brynner: a photographic journey”, in Telegraph (UK), retrieved 2019-01-02:

He quoted a former speechwriter for Mr. Bush, Michael Gerson, about Mr. Trump: “He lives in the eternal now—no history, no consequences.”

2018 October 18, Maggie Haberman, “A President Who Believes He Is Entitled to His Own Facts”, in New York Times (USA), retrieved 2019-01-02:

(religion, philosophy, psychology) The condition in which all reality is experienced in the present, with the past contained only in memory and the future only in anticipation or speculation.


James-Lange theory

Developed independently by two 19th-century scholars, William James and Carl Lange.

(psychology) An early hypothesis as to the origin and nature of emotions, stating that physiological arousal instigates the experience of emotion.


neophilic

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


hyperreflexivity

Meronym: hyperreflectivity

schizophrenia spectrum
schizophrenia spectrum

(psychiatry) An aspect of ipseity disturbance observed in schizophrenia spectrum disorders characterized by an obsessive tendency towards self-consciousness.


hypernormal

The responsible-hypernormal personality is noted by efforts to maintain the appearance of personal integrity, self-sacrifice, and concern for others. Variants of this type strive excessively to achieve an inner ideal of proper and conventional behaviour […]

2011, Theodore Millon, Disorders of Personality:

(psychology) Having or relating to a personality that makes one try hard to appear normal to others.


psychotraumatization

psychotraumatization (countable and uncountable, plural psychotraumatizations)


overvalued idea

overvalued idea (plural overvalued ideas)

/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈvæljuːd aɪˈdɪə/

In Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Hypochondriasis, the person may have overvalued ideas that are difficult to distinguish from delusions; but people with these disorders generally recognize, at least to some degree, that their symptoms and thinking are irrational, even if they are dominated by them.

1987, American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, Revised (DSM-III-R), American Psychiatric Publishing, →ISBN, page 193:

(psychiatry) A false or exaggerated and sustained belief that is maintained with much less than delusional intensity (i.e., the individual is able to acknowledge the possibility that the ideas may not be true). The belief is accompanied by a strong emotional response, that take priority over all other mental activity.


sociosomatic

en-adj

sociosomatic (comparative more sociosomatic, superlative most sociosomatic)

more sociosomatic (comparative)
most sociosomatic (superlative)

(medicine, psychology) Pertaining to physical diseases, symptoms etc. which have social causes.


time-space compression

(psychology, economics) The process in which time taken to travel is accelerated and the significance of space between distant places is reduced.


mania-like

mania-like (comparative more mania-like, superlative most mania-like)

more mania-like (comparative)
most mania-like (superlative)

PTSD may cause mania-like hypervigilance and insomnia as well as nightmares.

2013, David Mylan Kaufman, Mark J. Milstein, Kaufman's Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists:

(psychiatry) Resembling or characteristic of mania.


hormic

hormic (comparative more hormic, superlative most hormic)

more hormic (comparative)
most hormic (superlative)

Popularized by William McDougall (psychologist) (1871–1938), from Ancient Greek ὁρμή (hormḗ, “impulse”) + -ic.


automaintenance

(psychology) The maintenance of learnt behaviour.


precontemplation

(psychology) Prior to contemplation (concerning one's behaviour)


pseudopsychopathic

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(psychiatry) Relating to pseudopsychopathy


pseudopsychopathy

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self-handicap

en-verb

self-handicap (third-person singular simple present self-handicaps, present participle self-handicapping, simple past and past participle self-handicapped)

self-handicaps (present singular third-person)
self-handicapping (participle present)
self-handicapped (participle past)
self-handicapped (past)

(intransitive, psychology) To avoid making an effort, or to introduce deliberate obstacles to one's success, so as to prevent potential failure from hurting one's self-esteem.


self-handicap

(psychology) The act of one who self-handicaps, or an obstacle thus introduced.


compulsion loop

en-noun

compulsion loop (plural compulsion loops)

The classic compulsion loop is designed to either relieve some stress or trigger some reward, or both. Almost all video games are based on compulsion loops.

2022, Carl D. Marci, Rewired: Protecting Your Brain in the Digital Age, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 191:

(psychology) A habitual chain of activities, for example in a video game, that yields a neurochemical reward such as the release of dopamine.


picoeconomics

From pico- + economics by analogy with microeconomics.

(psychology) The strong preference for an almost immediate reward rather than a better reward in the future


celeration

(psychology) number per unit time per unit time. (typically, number per minute per week)


gestaltist

(psychology) A practitioner of Gestalt therapy.


bicameral mind

Coined by Julian Jaynes as a “rather inexact metaphor to a bicameral legislature of an upper and lower house” (1989) and appearing in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.

In distinction to our own subjective conscious minds, we can call the mentality of the Myceneans a bicameral mind. pg.75
The bicameral mind is ... that form of social control which allowed mankind to move from small hunter-gatherer groups to large agricultural communities… pg.126
The two hemispheres of the brain are not the bicameral mind… [It] is an ancient mentality demonstrated in the literature and artifacts of antiquity. pg.456
[At Delphi in C.E. 363] the bicameral mind had come to one of its many ends. pg.331

1976, Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1990:

The present paper provides a brief summary of the bicameral mind model, followed by a critical reappraisal of […] the putative cerebral basis of bicamerality.

2007, A.E. Cavanna, et.al.: The “bicameral mind” 30 years on: a critical reappraisal of Julian Jaynes’ hypothesis.:

[…] one should not regard the connections discovered here as an attempt to "prove" Jaynes's theory of the bicameral mind. Although his theory certainly accounts for the whole of the data presented here more concisely and cleanly than any alternative yet proposed, in the end, theories are only theories, […]

2016, Todd Gibson, Listening for Ancient Voices: Julian Jaynes's Theory of the Bicameral Mind in Tibet, Kuijsten, published 2016, page 271:

(psychology) The hypothetical mentality, neurology and sociology of the theory that before the historical emergence of introspective consciousness ancient humans and the earliest civilizations were governed by auditory hallucinations ‘spoken’ by the right cerebral hemisphere and ‘heard’ by the left hemisphere as the voices of gods.

mente bicameral

the hypothetical mentality of ancient humans that was governed by auditory hallucinations


precontemplative

See also: egosyntonic

(medicine, psychiatry) In a phase of mental activity in which one does not yet begin to recognize or acknowledge the maladaptiveness of someone's behavior (such as own's own, or that of a family member or friend); usually with reference to substance use.


precontemplator

(psychology) A person who has not yet contemplated the negative repercussions of their behaviour (such as drug abuse) and is thus resistant to change.


orthosomnia

Orthosomnia is a psychological condition recently identified by Baron et al. [3], who analyzed the behavior of fitness trackers users who used these devices to track their sleep.

2018 April, Linda Anticoli, Marco Basaldella, “Shut Up and Run: the Never-ending Quest for Social Fitness”, in WWW '18: Companion Proceedings of the The Web Conference:

Orthosomnia, the “perfectionistic quest for the ideal sleep in order to optimize daytime function”, is sadly becoming more prevalent, arguably due to increased sleep tracker use [73].

2018, Megan Roberts, Why Your Ketogenic Diet Isn't Working Part 2: Sleep and Circadian Rhythm:

In our view, this is an exercise of diminishing returns, and may actually impair quality of their sleep and cause orthosomnia, a condition where a person has a perfectionist quest to achieve perfect sleep. (Baron et al, 2017).

2019, Captain Allison Brager, Meir Kryger, A New Approach: Integrating Sleep Science and Consumer Wearables to Improve Access and Drive Greater Engagement, page 10:

(psychology) An unhealthy obsession with achieving the correct amount and type of sleep.


extimate

Jacques-Alain Miller
Thomas Teo
Éditions du Seuil

From extimacy + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Extimacy is a calque of French extimité (coined by the French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) in 1959–1960), probably from a blend of French externe (“external”) + intimité (“closeness, intimacy”). The English word can be analysed as a blend of external + intimate.

coinage

Since [Edgar Allan] Poe is viewed by the critical tradition as simultaneously inevitable and dubious, we should strive to see him as neither in nor out of the central canon, but rather, to adopt one of [Jacques] Lacan's neologisms, as extimate with relation to it, "simultaneously the intimate kernel and the foreign body," as Mladen Dolar glosses the term succinctly. The extimate is, like the social limit I have been outlining, a fold or fissure within a conceptual and discursive structure, an internal limit.

1995, Jonathan Elmer, “Introduction: The Figure of Mass Culture”, in Reading at the Social Limit: Affect, Mass Culture, & Edgar Allan Poe, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 26:

The romantic ‘fatal desire for mystical union’ emerges as a (non)relation to ‘some other’, to the ‘other’s alien life’[…]. In Lacanian terms this other functions like the extimate Thing, locus of the minimal difference in and more than the subject.

1999, Fred Botting, “Romance of the Machine”, in Sex, Machines and Navels: Fiction, Fantasy and History in the Future Present, Manchester, New York, N.Y.: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 210:

The notion of the extimate object as the cause of desire is used to denote that the most intimate and hidden aspect of the subject is also that which is most foreign and other to ourselves.

2000, Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, “The Object of Whiteness”, in Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian Analysis of Race, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 68:

Actually, it is just this quality of being in public, in the outside world, that makes an extimate experience and an extimate desire substantially meaningul to you or me: "it is intimate to us while being exterior at the same time" […] Would it be imaginable that such extimate reflections and evaluations, doubts and sensible explorations would be an intrinsic part of public life?

2021, Holger Schulze, “The Intimate”, in Holger Schulze, editor, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound, New York, N.Y., London: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, part II (Sounding Flesh), page 160:

(psychology) In the works of Jacques Lacan: simultaneously external and intimate.


effectance

en-noun

effectance (countable and uncountable, plural effectances)

(psychology) effective interaction with one's environment


hysterical blindness

hysterical blindness (usually uncountable, plural hysterical blindnesses)

(dated, psychiatry, psychology) A symptom of conversion disorder where the patient is unable to see.


psychocentric

en-adj

psychocentric (comparative more psychocentric, superlative most psychocentric)

more psychocentric (comparative)
most psychocentric (superlative)

The adjective is derived from psycho- (prefix meaning ‘relating to the mind or soul’) + -centric (suffix meaning ‘having a specified object at the centre, or as the focus of attention’). The noun is probably derived from the adjective.
Adjective sense 2 (“of a tourist: tending to avoid adventures and risks”) and the noun sense (“tourist who tends to avoid adventures and risks”) were 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: see the quotation.

coinage

These experts type some aerophobes as psychocentric individuals so self-focused on imaginary problems they have little energy left to enjoy life. Other fearful flyers are stymied by territory-boundedness—an unadventurous spirit.

1972, Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 108, column 1:

Members of the near-psychocentric and psychocentric segment, the remaining segment (15–20%), prefer a destination that does not exhibit its foreign culture. These tourists spend all of their time inside tourism complexes, stay for shorter periods of time, and are not big spenders. They are bargain hunters, and look for low-cost vacation spots.

1991, Ugur Yucelt, Phyllis W. Isley, “Marketing of Tourism in a Competitive World Environment”, in Erdener Kaynak, editor, International Marketing: Sociopolitical and Behavioral Aspects, Binghamton, N.Y.: International Business Press, The Haworth Press, →ISBN, section V (Special International Marketing Topics), page 369:

[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:

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:

(psychology, tourism) Of a tourist: tending to avoid adventures and risks, preferring the familiar; self-inhibiting.


psychocentric

[A] non-flyer was likely to experience many of these same problems which often resulted in very severely restricted life styles. Basically, we can see that this is a self inhibited, nervous, and non-adventuresome type of person. We call this individual the Psychocentric, from "psyche" meaning "self," and "centric" meaning the centering of one's thoughts or concerns on the small problem areas of one's life.

1974 February, Stanley C. Plog, “Why Destination Areas Rise and Fall in Popularity”, in Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, volume 14, number 4, Ithaca, N.Y.: School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 55, column 2:

Currently, given the high level of visibility ski touring is experiencing, peer influence becomes more of a factor as participants are drawn from the marginally interested population and the "psychocentrics" or followers.

1980, Timothy B. Knopp, G. Ballman, L. C. Merriam, “The Dynamics of Recreation Participation: Ski Touring in Minnesota”, in Proceedings: 1980 National Outdoor Recreation Trends Symposium (USDA Forest Service General Technical Report; NE-57), volume II, Broomall, Pa.: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 77, column 2:

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).

[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. In other words, the security provided by travelling with a group of similar tourists, and being escorted at all times, may persuade a psychocentric to travel, say, to Asia.

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:

Psychocentrics do not want to try anything new until they are sure of what it is like. The psychocentric waits for friends to do something and will follow whatever is in fashion. 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:

[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. It has long been accepted that many tourists actually seek novelty from a base of security and familiarity. This enables the psychocentric to enjoy more exotic forms of tourism.

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:

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. […] 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:

(psychology, tourism) A tourist who tends to avoid adventures and risks, preferring the familiar.


includence

From German Inkludenz, a 1960s neologism coined by Hubertus Tellenbach, derived from Latin inclūdō (“confine, imprison”).

Tellenbach himself explains the melancholic phenomena of includence in terms of the characteristics of the pre-melancholic personality that society explicitly sanctions and promotes.

2008, Thomas Rütten, “Rufus’ Legacy in the Psychopathological Literature of the (Early) Modern Period”, in Peter E. Pormann, editor, On Melancholy: Rufus of Ephesus, →ISBN, page 248, n. 16:

In this context two constellations emerge that characterize the pre-melancholic phase, namely includence and remanence, followed by the radical transformation of the self–world relation into despair.

2017, Giovanni Stanghellini, Milena Mancini, The Therapeutic Interview in Mental Health: A Values-Based and Person Approach, →ISBN, page 139:

Moving from Tellenbach[’s] description of the Typus Melancholicus, we can observe an ongoing evolution toward endogenous depression starting with a pre-melancholic phase. In this stage, three main elements can be described: includence, remanence, and despair.

2020, Giuseppe Sarli et al., “COVID-19 related lockdown: a trigger from the pre-melancholic phase to catatonia and depression, a case report of a 59 year-old man”, in BMC Psychiatry, volume 20, →DOI:

(psychiatry) The withdrawal of a person within a routine that they cannot escape, a forerunner of pathological melancholia.


foreclusion

Magritte, unique among the surrealists, survived the sea change from the modern to its sequel, becoming in the process something of a postmodern emblem: the uncanny, Lacanian foreclusion, without expression.

1991, Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Duke University Press, page 10:

1994, Willy Apollon, "The Discourse of Gangs in the Stake of Male Repression and Narcissism", in Lacanian Theory of Discourse: Subject, Structure, and Society, edited by Mark Bracher et al., New York University Press, page 214.
Indeed, if the mother is a whore, according to this representation of the gang, the son cannot trust her word to economize the foreclusion of the Names-of-the-Father that is the stake of psychosis.

(psychoanalysis) Alternative form of foreclosure


counterfinality

(psychology) The tendency to increase ones value of or commitment to something when it involves unanticipated negative side effects.


acuphagia

(psychology) The ingestion or consumption of sharp objects.


PAPS

(psychology) Acronym of physical appearance perfectionism scale.


long-term memory

(psychology) The stage of the Atkinson–Shiffrin memory model where informative knowledge is held indefinitely.


short-term memory

(psychology) The capacity for holding, but not manipulating, a small amount of information in mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time.


rigosol

From French rigole (“drainage ditch”) + -sol.

(pedology) A deeply ploughed agricultural soil type.


mortido

From Latin mors (“death”), modeled after libido.

One primitive need of mortido is to eliminate another human being, usually one of the same sex. Even among birds, fishes, and non-human mammals, this sexual distinction between the objects of libido and mortido can be seen.

1957, Eric Berne, A Layman's Guide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 49:

(psychology) The energy of the death instinct.


social contagion

en-noun

social contagion (countable and uncountable, plural social contagions)

A Peter leads a John, a John goes after a Peter, both of them unconscious of any influence exercised or received. And thus our life and conduct are ever propagating themselves, by a law of social contagion, throughout the circles […]

1852, Horace Bushnell, Unconscious Influence: A Sermon, page 4:

(pathology, sociology, psychology) The spontaneous spread of behaviour when it is unconsciously copied from one individual by another; a behavior that spreads in this manner.


behavioral contagion

social contagion
social contagion#English

(pathology, psychology, sociology) Synonym of social contagion


low-functioning autism

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(psychiatry) A form of autism associated with significant communication deficits and low cognitive ability (an IQ below 70).


hyperkinetic disorder

(neurology, pathology, psychiatry, psychology) A developmental disorder in which a person has a persistent and pervasive pattern of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.

reactio puerorum sive adolescentium hyperkinetica

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder


elective mutism

selective mutism
selective mutism#English

(clinical psychology, psychiatry) Dated form of selective mutism (“A severe anxiety disorder characterized by a total inability to speak in some social settings”).


organizational climate

organizational climate (countable and uncountable, plural organizational climates)

(business psychology) Employees' collective appraisal of the organizational work environment.


fabricatory

en-adj

fabricatory (comparative more fabricatory, superlative most fabricatory)

more fabricatory (comparative)
most fabricatory (superlative)

It has already been stated that the simple grandiose and fabricatory patients (using the terms to denote symptoms above described) are not prone to hallucinations, though the maniacal are.

1919, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, page 304:

He found a group of patients showing no hallucinations, but being depressed, grandiose, maniacal, or fabricatory.

1919, Edward Swift Dunster, James Bradbridge Hunter, Frank Pierce Foster, International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics:

(obsolete, psychology) Prone to fabrication; compulsively lying.


guilt complex

(psychology) A persistent or excessive sense of guilt.

(psychology) A persistent belief that one has done something wrong or will attempt to do something wrong.


anal stage

(psychoanalysis) The Freudian stage of psychosocial development in which the chief erogenous zone is the anus and the child gains pleasure from learning to control the bowel and bladder.


postformal

(psychology) Following the formal operational stage (the last of Jean Piaget's four stages of human cognitive development), and involving more complex forms of thinking such as self-reference, pragmatism, and acceptance of paradoxes.


subassertive

(psychology) Less than normally assertive


HCP

en-noun

HCP (countable and uncountable, plural HCPs)

(countable, psychology) Initialism of high-conflict person/personality.


cognitive bias

cognitive bias (usually uncountable, plural cognitive biases)

Cognitive biases can be adaptive when they speed decision-making.

When the government realised that a new virus was circulating, Chinese officials didn’t advise hand washing, a better cough etiquette and disposing of tissues. They quarantined entire cities and shut down the economy. As one former secretary of state for health in England put it to me, our scientists suffered from a “cognitive bias” towards the milder threat of influenza.

2020 April 9, Richard Horton, “Coronavirus is the greatest global science policy failure in a generation”, in The Guardian:

(psychology) A systematic deviation from norms of rationality and objectivity in judgment or perception.


psychogram

(psychology, dated) A composite psychological measurement that attempts to integrate various interrelated elements of a person's thought processes.

(psychology, dated) A kind of visual diagram of an individual's personality.


false memory

(psychology) A memory of something that did not happen or recalled differently from the way it actually happened.


undercontroller

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(psychology) A person who controls insufficiently


injustice collector

injustice collector (plural injustice collectors)

injustice collecting
injustice collecting#English

(psychology) A person who practices injustice collecting.


injustice collecting

(psychology) A condition, where one remembers and itemizes slights, imagined or real.


injustice collection

injustice collection (countable and uncountable, plural injustice collections)

(psychology, uncountable) Synonym of injustice collecting

injustice collector
injustice collector#English

(psychology, countable) The list of injustices an injustice collector collects through injustice collecting.


alarm fatigue

Coordinate term: caution fatigue

(psychology) Desensitization to alarm signals, caused by lengthy or frequent exposure, and resultant slowed or absent responses to new alarms.


little space

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(psychology, neologism) The state of mind a little enters when regressing, often as a coping mechanism.


intrusive thought

intrusive thought (plural intrusive thoughts)

(psychology) An unwelcome involuntary thought, image, or idea.

tvangstanke

unwelcome involuntary thought, image or idea


compulsive behaviour

compulsive behaviour (plural compulsive behaviours)

(psychology) An action that is performed compulsively without necessarily leading to an actual reward or pleasure.

tvangshandling

an action that is performed compulsively without necessarily leading to an actual reward or pleasure


EDMR

w:eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

(psychology) Initialism of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.


mere exposure effect

mere exposure effect (plural mere exposure effects)

(psychology) The phenomenon whereby people tend to develop a preference for something merely because they are familiar with it.


ultraparadoxical

(psychology) Relating to the third and final stage in Pavlov's theory of transmarginal inhibition, at which point negative stimulation results in positive responses and vice versa.


hyperphantasia

From hyper- + phantasia; from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “perception, impression, image, look, appearance”).

Charles Darwin left behind writings hinting at hyperphantasia: When he was once asked to recall the objects that had been on his breakfast table that morning, he said they were “as distinct as if I had photos before me.”

2021 June 8, Carl Zimmer, “Many People Have a Vivid ‘Mind’s Eye,’ While Others Have None at All”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(psychology, pathology) A condition where one's mental imagery (the mind's eye) is extremely realistic, to the point of confusion with reality.


puella aeterna

puella aeterna (plural puellae aeternae)

From Latin puella aeterna (“eternal girl”), female form of puer aeternus (“eternal boy”) (in Ovid, Metamorphoses), after use in German by CG Jung.


clown therapy

(psychology) A from of drama therapy that helps patients discover their "inner clown".


trisociation

(psychology) A blending of elements drawn from three previously unrelated patterns of thought into a new pattern.


castration anxiety

castration anxiety (countable and uncountable, plural castration anxieties)

If we wonder now how easily men are threatened by women, and how the slightest expression of feminine power can generate castration anxieties in even a big man, then perhaps we would do well to think back on the origins of agriculture.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 133:

(psychology) The literal or metaphorical fear of emasculation; associated with the early psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud.


gray rock method

From the idea of a gray rock being an uninteresting object, introduced in 2012 in an article on the Lovefraud website written by the user Skylar.

(informal psychology) The practice of deliberately making oneself uninteresting and unresponsive so as to defend oneself against someone who wishes to elicit certain responses, such as a narcissist or psychopath.


hypostress

Coordinate term: eustress


pre-depression

Murphy et al. (1988) found that, when the effect of physical illness was controlled, depressed elderly patients (particularly men) had a significantly higher four-year mortality, suggesting that the greater mortality in the depressed group was not due to differences of pre-depression physical health alone.

1994, Peter Burvill, “Part 4. Affective disorders [§] 8. The outcome of depressive illness in old age”, in Edmond Chiu, David Ames, editors, Functional Psychiatric Disorders of the Elderly, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, “Mortality”, page 114:

A child who has dysthymia, or chronic mild depression, captured in the persistent depressive disorder diagnosis in DSM-5, a milder but more chronic set of symptoms over a period of at least 12 months, may not have the cognitive-developmental awareness that their depressive symptoms are different from the emotions of other children, or even their own pre-depression life.

2016, Janay B. Sander, Thomas H. Ollendick, “Part III: Common Problems of Childhood and Adolescence [§] 20. Internalizing Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence”, in James E. Maddux, Barbara A. Winstead, editors, Psychopathology: Foundations for a Contemporary Understanding, 4th edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 396, column 2:

When recovering or recovered from depression, as the sources I consider highlight, some people seem to have a heightened appreciation of beauty, both when compared to when they were depressed, and also when compared to their pre-depression state.

2019, Tasia Scrutton, “Part III. The value of suffering [§] 11. ‘My horses and hogs and even everybody seemed changed’: Appreciating beauty in depression recovery”, in David Bain, Michael Brady, Jennifer Corns, editors, Philosophy of Suffering: Metaphysics, Value, and Normativity, Routledge, →ISBN, page 213:


rhathymia

/ɹeɪˈθaɪmiə/

From Ancient Greek ῥᾳθῡμία (rhāithūmía, “easiness of temper”), from ῥᾴθυμος (rhā́ithumos, “easy-going”), from ῥᾶ (rhâ, “easily”) (see ῥᾴδιος (rhā́idios)) + θυμός (thumós, “soul, mind”)).

der

rhathymia scale

(psychology) A carefree and extroverted personality factor.


twice-exceptional

autism spectrum disorder
autism spectrum disorder

(education, psychology) Being a gifted student with some form of disability (dyslexia, autism spectrum disorder etc.), thus considered exceptional both because of one's giftedness and special needs.


twice-exceptionality

en-noun

twice-exceptionality (countable and uncountable, plural twice-exceptionalities)

(education, psychology) The condition of being twice-exceptional.


monoideic

(psychology) Involving or dominated by a single idea.


polyideic

(psychology) Involving more than one idea.


working memory

working memory (countable and uncountable, plural working memories)

Coordinate term: short-term memory

Not only can working memory assessment inform the diagnosis of learning disabilities, but the early screening of working memory could identify children at risk for learning problems.

2011 January 4, Milton J. Dehn, Working Memory and Academic Learning, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 7:

In each case, our primary interest is in identifying what role, if any, is played by working memory in the development of the particular domain of language ability.

2014 February 4, Susan E. Gathercole, Alan D. Baddeley, Working Memory and Language, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 25:

(psychology) A cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold information temporarily.


Stroop test

(psychology) A test that presents the subject with coloured words to measure the Stroop effect.


coprographia

From copro- (“dung”) + Latin -graphia (“-graphy”).

af

Symptoms such as mental coprolalia (the thinking of obscenities), coprographia (the writing of obscenities) and mental palilalia are usually unrecognized unless specifically asked about.

1995, Mary Robertson, Valsamma Eapen, Movement and Allied Disorders in Childhood, page 2:

Trimble (199 ) has noted tatooing in some individuals with Tourette's disorder and also coprographia.

1995, James C. Harris, Developmental Neuropsychiatry, page 477:

Examination of the 374 letters written by Wolfgang Mozart shows scatological writing (coprographia) in 39, or 10.5%, which mention shit (29 times), arse and arse hole (27), muck (17), fart (6), piddling or pissing (6), but without the words being placed illogically, if not inappropriately.

2004, F Clifford Rose, Neurology Of The Arts: Painting, Music And Literature, page 325:

Some speculate that Mozart the musician had coprographia.

2005, Jean-Ronel Corbier, Optimal Treatment for Children with Autism and Other Neuropsychiatric Conditions, page 43:

(psychiatry) The making of vulgar writings or drawings, especially when done involuntarily.


coprophemia

(psychiatry, rare) The use of obscene words or phrases to stimulate sexual excitement.


coprophrasia

(psychiatry, rare) The use of obscene words, usually during intercourse, to arouse or increase sexual excitement.


coprolalomania

(psychiatry, rare) A mania for obscene language.


compulsive decluttering

(medicine, psychology) A pattern of behavior that is characterized by an excessive desire to discard objects from one's home and living areas.


superiority complex

en-noun

superiority complex (plural superiority complexes)

(psychology) An attitude of superiority which conceals actual feelings of inferiority and failure.


compulsive hoarding

compulsive hoarding (usually uncountable, plural compulsive hoardings)

(psychiatry, psychology) A mental disorder characterized by excessive acquisition of and an inability or unwillingness to discard large quantities of objects.


selective memory

(neurology, psychology) The ability to retrieve certain facts and events but not others.

(psychology) An ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient, embarrassing, or disadvantageous.


overfunction

en-verb

overfunction (third-person singular simple present overfunctions, present participle overfunctioning, simple past and past participle overfunctioned)

overfunctions (present singular third-person)
overfunctioning (participle present)
overfunctioned (participle past)
overfunctioned (past)

(intransitive, psychology) To take responsibility for other people's actions.


recathexis

en-noun

recathexis (countable and uncountable, plural recathexes)


self-stimulation

From self- + stimulation. Autism-related sense common since around 1970, before which other terms were also used.

(psychology, autism) Repetitive behavior intended to stimulate one's senses.

[see title]

(psychology, euphemistic, rare) Masturbation.


digital hoarding

(psychology) Excessive acquisition of and reluctance to delete electronic material no longer valuable to the user.


TAT

thematic apperception test
w:thematic apperception test

(psychology) Initialism of thematic apperception test.


sublimative

(especially psychology) Bringing about sublimation


metabletics

(psychology) The psychology of human nature as modified by historical change


autoanalyst

(psychology) A practitioner of autoanalysis


self-attention

According to self-attention theory in general, it can be predicted that heightened self-attention leads to a closer fit between observed behavior and some underlying salient standard.

1986, Ralf Schwarzer, editor, Self-related Cognitions in Anxiety and Motivation, Psychology Press, →ISBN:

Interest in the consequences of self-attention spread fairly quickly from social to personality psychologists.

2012, C. S. Carver, M. F. Scheier, Attention and Self-Regulation, page 45:

(psychology) Conscious attention to one's own physiological and emotional state and behavior.


learned helplessness

(psychology) A state that occurs after a person has experienced a stressful situation repeatedly. They come to believe that they are unable to control or change the situation, so they do not try, even when opportunities for change become available.


traitlike

(psychology) Having characteristics of a trait


schizotypal personality

schizotypal personality (plural schizotypal personalities)

(psychiatry) A personality affected by schizotypal personality disorder.


anal-expulsive

en-adj

anal-expulsive (comparative more anal-expulsive, superlative most anal-expulsive)

more anal-expulsive (comparative)
most anal-expulsive (superlative)

From anal + expulsive. First use appears c. 1928. See cite below.

Coordinate term: anal-retentive

But an anal expulsive tendency also comes to light in melancholia.

1928, Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company (publisher), Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series - Volume 50, page 122:

(psychology, Freudian) Exhibiting cruelty, emotional outbursts, disorganization, self-confidence, artistic ability, generosity, rebelliousness and general carelessness.


somatosensory amplification

(psychology) A tendency to perceive normal somatic and visceral sensations as being relatively intense, disturbing and noxious


ratiomorphic

(psychology) Relating to unconscious processing of sensory data


round number bias

Round number bias caused most people to throw an extra glamorous New Year party as 1999 ended and 2000 began.

(psychology) The tendency to favor round numbers or easy-to-use numbers as opposed to more realistic, more precise figures.


biophilous

biophilous (comparative more biophilous, superlative most biophilous)

more biophilous (comparative)
most biophilous (superlative)

(psychology) Exhibiting or relating to biophilia.


hypersensitive avoidant

hypersensitive avoidant (not comparable)

paranoid personality disorder
paranoid personality disorder

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of paranoid personality disorder


self-deserting avoidant

self-deserting avoidant (not comparable)

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of depressive personality disorder


en-noun

depersonalization-derealization disorder (plural depersonalization-derealization disorders)

(psychiatry) A mental disorder in which a person has persistent or recurrent feelings of depersonalization or derealization.


major depressive disorder

major depressive disorder (countable and uncountable, plural major depressive disorders)

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(psychiatry) A mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of pervasive low mood, low self-esteem, and loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities.


ambitendency

ambitendency (countable and uncountable, plural ambitendencies)

Coordinate term: ambivalence

(psychology) Contradictory behaviors exhibited when one is pulled between different choices.


nightmare fuel

Coined in a 1993 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 to describe a laughing animatronic in the movie Santa Claus.

(informal, psychology) Something capable of inducing nightmares, often by being highly disturbing.


fake good

en-verb

fake good (third-person singular simple present fakes good, present participle faking good, simple past and past participle faked good)

fakes good (present singular third-person)
faking good (participle present)
faked good (participle past)
faked good (past)

(transitive, intransitive, psychology, informal) To present oneself, when being tested or evaluated, in a misleadingly positive manner, exaggerating good traits and playing down bad ones.


extimacy

en-noun

extimacy (countable and uncountable, plural extimacies)

Calque of French extimité + English -cy (suffix forming nouns of condition, quality, or state). Extimité was coined by the French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) in 1959–1960), probably from a blend of French externe (“external”) + intimité (“closeness, intimacy”).

coinage

(psychology) In the works of Jacques Lacan: the quality of being extimate.


activity theory

(psychology) The theory that the human ageing process is delayed, and the quality of life enhanced, in people who stay active and maintain social interactions.


pozphobia

Finally, we mused about poz pride as a strategy to fight pozphobia, and there was a discussion […] We have countered that pozphobia and discrimination often make it difficult to disclose. […] added responsibility for poz people—to fight against pozphobia, to ensure that the risks and […]

2011 October, Barry D. Adam, James Murray, Suzanne Ross, Jason Oliver, Stephen G. Lincoln, Vicki Rynard, “hivstigma.com, an innovative web-supported stigma reduction intervention for gay and bisexual men”, in Health Education Research, volume 26, number 5, pages 795–807:

If the AIDS crisis were over, pozphobia wouldn't be so prevalent, so casual, so unconscious even. If the AIDS crisis were over, my position as a patient wouldn't be a privileged one.

2014, David Caron, The Nearness of Others: Searching for Tact and Contact in the Age of HIV, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:

Recognizing the signs of pozphobia and ascertaining comfort with your HIV status before proceeding is something every serodiscordant couple needs to talk about.

2019 August 28, Alexander Cheves, “9 Bad Sex Experiences That HIV-Positive People Face”, in The Body:

(psychology, informal) Fear of or prejudice towards HIV positive people.


syndyastic

en-adj

syndyastic (comparative more syndyastic, superlative most syndyastic)

more syndyastic (comparative)
most syndyastic (superlative)

From Ancient Greek συνδιαστικός (sundiastikós, literally “connecting two”), a hapax coined in the Ethics of Aristotle, introduced by Kurt Klaus Loewit and Klaus Michael Beier who in Berlin 2004 wrote a coursebook about Sexual Medicine in Clinical Practice inventing syndyastic sexual therapy, which makes it naturally a calque of German syndyastisch now chiefly encountered in Berolinese sources.

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συνδιαστικός

(psychology, sexual therapy) related to coupleship, the requirement to realize intimacy with a partner


rejection sensitivity

(psychology) A tendency to feel deep anxiety and humiliation at the slightest rebuff.


sensory processing sensitivity

en-noun

sensory processing sensitivity (plural sensory processing sensitivities)

sensory processing sensitivities (plural)

central nervous system
central nervous system

(psychology) a temperamental or personality trait involving an increased sensitivity of the central nervous system and a deeper cognitive processing of physical, social and emotional stimuli


highly sensitive person

highly sensitive person (plural highly sensitive persons)

sensory processing sensitivity
sensory processing sensitivity

(psychology) A person with a particularly high measure of sensory processing sensitivity.