cluster B personality disorder

cluster B personality disorder (plural cluster B personality disorders)

cluster B personality disorders (plural)

antisocial personality disorder
antisocial personality disorder

borderline personality disorder
borderline personality disorder

histrionic personality disorder
histrionic personality disorder

narcissistic personality disorder
narcissistic personality disorder

(psychology) Any of a group of personality disorders characterized by dramatic, overly emotional or unpredictable thinking or behavior, which includes antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.


information fatigue

(psychology) A type of fatigue caused by the availability or supply of an excess of information.


sensory hypersensitivity

(psychology) Emotinal hypersensitivity caused by the stress when coping with external sensorial stimuli.


reactive attachment disorder

en-noun

reactive attachment disorder (plural reactive attachment disorders)

(medicine, psychology, pediatrics) A rare but serious condition in which an infant or young child fails to establish healthy attachments with parents or caregivers.


self-deserting

en-adj

self-deserting (comparative more self-deserting, superlative most self-deserting)

more self-deserting (comparative)
most self-deserting (superlative)

(psychology, uncommon) deserted by oneself


prototype theory

cognitive linguistics
cognitive linguistics

(cognitive science, psychology) A theory of categorization in cognitive science, particularly in psychology and cognitive linguistics.


perezhivanie

en-noun

perezhivanie (countable and uncountable, plural perezhivaniya)

Borrowed from Russian переживание (pereživanije), from пережива́ть (pereživátʹ) + -а́ние (-ánije).

affix

(psychology) The cognitive sensation of an emotional experience.


negro fatigue

There has been some speculation in the blogosphere that Negro Fatigue is setting in nationwide among Whites over the Trayvon Martin case. Here are the numbers:
http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2012/04/05/usa-todaygallup-poll-negro-fatigue-confirmed/

2012 April 6, rebcar...@gmail.com, “Negro Fatigue Confirmed”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

By the end of undergrad in 1980, it was clear that the America that I had entered into college with in 1976 had undergone regressive transformation. With the defeat of President Jimmy Carter and the election of Ronald Reagan, the modern reconstruction of black America was over. The nation had suffered a severe case of “Negro fatigue.” Moving forward, the national government would officially disengage the great Project of righting the wrongs and repairing the damage of America's original sin.

2012, Marshall Elijah Hatch, Project America: memoirs of faith and hope to win the future, Life To Legacy LLC, →ISBN:

Negro Fatigue: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Admits People are Fed Up with Black Whining Stuff Black People Don’t Like October 16, 2014 A black mayor is an inevitability in Ferguson; the 67 percent black city today, that was 76 percent white in 1990 (99 percent white in 1970).

2014 November 19, Peter J Ross, “Negro Fatigue: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Admits People are Fed Up with Black Whining”, in soc.med (Usenet):

I think the folks at the Oscars are suffering "negro fatigue". Instead of being grateful for all the Oscars they got -- which they didn't deserve -- Fat Al thinks there should be a minimum quota for blacks. Simply because they are there.

2015 January 22, Gary, “Good reply to Sharpton's: "Hollywood is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets."”, in soc.retirement (Usenet):

At least it shows fellow Africoonians causing them to be slaves in the first
place
It’s really no surprise that a string of anti-White slavery movies have
shown during the "fundamental transformation" era of Obama. The only good
news is that Americans are starting to have "negro fatigue", thanks to Al
Sharpton, the "Ferguson effect", and the rise of the "Black Lives Matter"
movement.

2016 February 14, Byker, “"Roots" remake”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

Some observers even cited the factor of “negro fatigue.” Morgan notes that a fifty year old man in 1877 had spent most of his life “worrying over the South and the Negro” first during the antebellum crises over slavery, then during the antebellum crises over slavery, then during the four years of Civil War, and later during twelve years of Reconstruction.

2017 March 31, Christopher Brian Booker, The Black Presidential Nightmare: African-Americans and Presidents, 1789–2016, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:

As significant as each of these was, I believe many of these issues to a greater or lesser degree were conjoined with a gnawing sense of "negro fatigue," a profound desire to get on with life, and willful blindness to the resilient and corrosive nature of unattended racism.

2018, William D. Green, The Children of Lincoln, White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876:

(US, psychology, derogatory) Physical or psychological fatigue or trauma experienced by nonblacks who live or work among black people.


lizard-brained

en-adj

lizard-brained (comparative more lizard-brained, superlative most lizard-brained)

more lizard-brained (comparative)
most lizard-brained (superlative)

(psychology) Driven by instinct or impulse rather than rational thought.


egodystonia

en-noun

egodystonia (usually uncountable, plural egodystonias)


ASB

(psychology) Initialism of antisocial behavior.


winter blues

Seasonal affective disorder
seasonal affective disorder

(informal, psychology) Seasonal affective disorder during the winter season.


seasonal depression

Seasonal affective disorder
seasonal affective disorder#English

(psychology) Seasonal affective disorder.


spotlight effect

spotlight effect (plural spotlight effects)

(psychology) The phenomenon by which people tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are.


aspectology

(psychology) The branch of psychology concerned with aspects of one's own personality.


aspectological

(psychology and linguistics) Relating to aspectology


veneer theory

His [Maestripieri's] take-home message - that brute power politics is the root of, and the route to, success - looks like corroboration of 'veneer theory'

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 154:

(psychology, philosophy) The idea that morality is simply a cultural manner that hides man's innate amorality.


neuroreductionism

It is the central dogma of one careful type of neuroreductionism that such a reduction will eventually be possible for all psychological concepts and theories.

1984, Wim A. van de Grind, “Decomposition and Neuro-reduction of Visual Perception”, in Andrea J. van Doorn et al., editors, Limits in Perception: Essays in Honour of Maarten A. Bouman, VNU Science Press, page 434:

Neuroreductionism is a methodology aimed at explanation of complex nervous systems by analysis of relations between levels of organization, and explanation of each level of organization in terms of simpler constituents.

1993, Marcus Jacobson, Foundations of Neuroscience, Plenum Press, page 101:

Neurophysiologists failed to find any evidence for such fields of electrical activity in the brain, and so tended to dismiss Gestalt theory in general rather than Köhler's unsuccessful attempt at neuroreductionism in particular.

2001, Nicholas J. Wade, Michael T. Swanston, Visual Perception: An Introduction, 2nd edition, Psychology Press, page 76:

(psychology) A form of reductionism which explains psychological phenomena in terms of neuroscience.


OSDD

other specified dissociative disorder#English

(psychiatry) Initialism of other specified dissociative disorder.


other specified dissociative disorder

other specified dissociative disorder (plural other specified dissociative disorders)

other specified dissociative disorders (plural)

dissociative disorder
dissociative disorder

(psychiatry) A mental health diagnosis which fits the DSM-5 criteria for a dissociative disorder, but does not meet criteria for identified subtypes.


double empathy problem

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Coined by autism researcher Damian E. M. Milton in 2012 in a journal article.

coinage

Autistic people's difficulties with communication combined with the 'double empathy problem' can lead to assumptions being made by staff about the people they are teaching or supporting.

2018, Michael James, Forest School and Autism: A Practical Guide, page 37:

Rather, such difficulties are reciprocal, so a 'double empathy' problem exists.

2020, Karen Guldberg, Developing Excellence in Autism Practice: Making a Difference in Education, unnumbered page:

In contrast to the old (and disproven) idea of autistic people lacking empathy, the double empathy problem suggests that non-autistic people often lack empathy towards autistic people, and this might be the cause of many difficulties experienced by autistic people.

2021, Felicity Sedgewick, Laura Hull, Helen Ellis, Autism and Masking: How and Why People Do It, and the Impact It Can Have, page 163:

(psychology) The phenomenon of autistic and nonautistic people mutually failing to understand each other due to cognitive differences in expressing and processing emotion.


stimmer

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From stim (“any repetitive self-stimulating action”) + -er.

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Most people probably wouldn't guess either of them had autism since they are both so high functioning; Dillon is a “stimmer” though—lots of hand flapping.

2006, Donna Satterlee Ross, Kelly Ann Jolly, editors, That's Life with Autism: Tales and Tips for Families with Autism, page 125:

Cam is a first-class stimmer. The stims have passed through stages, each more obsessive than the last.

2010, Mark Osteen, One of Us: A Family's Life with Autism, page 148:

We are also perpetual stimmers: displaying or masking our stims, engaging in self-injurious or artistic stims, creatively expressing ourselves, or responding to trauma or stim suppression.

2021, Erin Felepchuk, “Stimming, Improvisation, and COVID-19: (Re)negotiating Autistic Sensory Regulation During a Pandemic”, in Disability Studies Quarterly, volume 41, number 3:

(psychology, autism) One who engages in stimming behaviour.


dialectical behavior therapy

en-noun

dialectical behavior therapy (uncountable)

personality disorder
personality disorder

(psychology) A psychotherapeutic approach used to treat personality disorders, mood disorders, eating disorders, suicidal ideation, interpersonal conflicts, self-harm, substance abuse and other maladaptive coping strategies, which focuses on synthesizing the importance of self-acceptance with the acceptance of a need to change one's behavior.


coping strategy

coping strategy (plural coping strategies)

(psychology) A conscious, subconscious or unconscious thought process or behavior that a person habitually employs in order to cope with a particular type of situation.


traumacore

In an immobilization taken up in Kafka's story by the literal fixation of the victim to the bed, the traumacore fixates the victim of trauma to a specific temporal slot in its development (the traumatime and the traumasite), to which it returns, against its conscious will, freezing again and again into a traumatized tableau vivant.

1999, Pynchon Notes - Issues 42-43, page 246:

According to Berressem, the ultimate 'traumacore' in Pynchon's poetics is the fall into language, subjectivity and culture, a fall that entails the realization of death, not face to face but rather in the face of the letter.

2001, American Studies in Scandinavia - Volumes 33-34, page 134:

The traumacore functions, therefore, as an always already excluded, crossed out origin, such as the event of my own birth.

2003, Wolfram Mauser, Joachim Pfeiffer, Trauer, page 91:

While the infinitely "small" time of the clinamen designates for Lacan the time of the "traumacore," it designates for Lucretius the birth of complexity.

2005, Niran Abbas, Mapping Michel Serres, page 63:

(countable, psychology) A repressed memory of an event that when triggered becomes the primary reason for feeling traumatized.


AAQ

acceptance and action questionnaire#English

(psychology) Initialism of acceptance and action questionnaire.


autohomicide

autohomicide (countable and uncountable, plural autohomicides)

taking one's own life
take one's own life

(psychology, rare) The act of suicide; the act of taking one's own life.


Dr. Fox effect

Named after the actor Michael Fox, who was presented in the experiment as "Dr. Myron L. Fox".

Studies have also been done on the psychological aspects of credibility, like the "Dr. Fox effect" research of the early 1970s, in which an actor was programmed to teach material he knew nothing about.

1996, Cynthia Crossen, Tainted Truth: The Manipulation of Fact in America, page 21:

The focus of this research was not the Dr. Fox effect nor even SETS, but how instructor expressiveness interacted with perceived control to influence achievement test scores.

1997, Raymond P. Perry, John C. Smart, Effective Teaching in Higher Education: Research and Practice, page 301:

One of the most interesting phenomena associated with teaching delivery is the Dr Fox Effect. This relates to the skill of the lecturer in seducing favourable evaluations from students.

2000, John Heywood, Assessment in Higher Education, page 104:

(psychology) The tendency for students to rate a teacher highly if lectures are presented in a very expressive, humorous, and warm manner, even when the content of the lecture is meaningless and incomprehensible.


zoniferous

The zoniferous canalization process takes place both at the level of immediate actions, and at the level of semiotic mediation.

1997, Derek Edwards, Teaching, learning and classroom discourse, page 25:

Instead of describing the style of parenting that is attributable to the parents' personalities, the zoniferous view of the process of development affords description of conditions in parent-child-environment relationships that are interpreted in everyday language in the terminology of the static qualities of permissiveness or restrictiveness.

1997, Jaan Valsiner, Culture and the Development of Children's Action, page 318:

(psychology) Pertaining to or based on the zone of freedom of movement (the possible actions that are available at the present time), the zone of promoted action (the preference for and highlighting of specific actions), and the zone of proximal development (the set of immediate next possibilities, given the other two zones).


transitional object

transitional object (plural transitional objects)

It would also be many years before I learned about [ Donald Winnicott's ] primary contribution to psychoanalysis, the concept of the "transitional object." Babies often make use of a special possession as they learn that they're separate from their mother. It occupies a "territory between the subjective and the objective." It's not "me," but not "not-me," either.

2005, Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2012, page 56:

(psychology) An object, such as a security blanket or stuffed toy, used by a young child to self-soothe and cope with separation from a parent or other attachment figure.


combat stress reaction

combat stress reaction (plural combat stress reactions)

(military, psychiatry) Acute behavioral disorganization as a direct result of the trauma of war.


inhabitive

en-adj

inhabitive (comparative more inhabitive, superlative most inhabitive)

more inhabitive (comparative)
most inhabitive (superlative)

(phrenology) Having a propensity towards permanent residence in a place or abode; fond of home and country.


love-hatred

en-noun

love-hatred (countable and uncountable, plural love-hatreds)

(psychology) A state of mind involving feelings of love-hate.


Madonna-whore complex

Madonna-whore complex (plural Madonna-whore complexes)

‘Who’s That Knocking at My Door?’ [1967] was a film that dealt with a simple theme, one basic idea—a young guy trying to deal with his madonna-whore complex about women—plus a slight indication of what Little Italy was like.

1973 November 18, Gene Siskel, quoting Martin Scorsese, “Along the ‘Streets’ of Little Italy …”, in Chicago Tribune, section 6, page 6:

The female nurse, however, still fulfils a public stereotype, according to the nurses The Sydney Morning Herald spoke to. She suffers from the Madonna-whore complex – she is a Madonna in the ward because she “helps” people, but socially she’s a Nurse and everybody’s heard of nurses’ parties, haven’t they?

1981 June 20, “Nurses: think like a man, work like a dog, smile like an angel”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 44,765, page 33:

The analyst clarifies the enactments into reality of a defensive dissociation of the intimate object from the sexual object, a classic Madonna-and-Whore complex.

2005, The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis, American Psychiatric Publishing, →ISBN:

“Just got here. Saw the light on my way up to the loo—then I saw your fat arse sticking up investigating Nanny’s drawers so I thought I’d pop in. I see her taste in quasi-nun’s outfits hasn’t changed since 1985,” she observed, flicking through the hangers. “Think she’s got a Madonna and whore complex?”

2008, Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency and the Prince, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 375:

Under the Madonna-whore complexes that plagued me and most boys, there was a deep Christian fear of ourselves as animals, creatures of flesh more than spirit.

2013, Andrew Hudgins, “Morning, Ladies!”, in The Joker: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 246:

As we’re well into the 21st century, we might have hoped that all of that Freudian hooey about the Madonna-Whore Complex could have been ditched by now, but [Rena] Priest’s work suggests that our society is still impacted by those archetypes.

2017 June 4, Barbara McMichael, “Two views of life from Bellingham”, in Kitsap Sun, page 4D:

Like other expressions of Madonna-whore complexes, there is an idea that bad things don’t happen to good girls.

2020, Mikki Kendall, “Of #FastTailedGirls and Freedom”, in Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 48:

(psychoanalysis) A complex said to develop in men who see women as either saintly "Madonnas" or debased prostitutes, potentially leading to the inability to maintain sexual arousal within a committed, loving relationship.


digital addiction

digital addiction (countable and uncountable, plural digital addictions)

(psychology) An impulse control disorder involving the obsessive use of mobile devices, particularly social media, or the Internet or video games.


preimitative

preimitative behaviour in infants, such as crying in response to the cries of another

(psychology) Before the development of true imitative behaviour.


prepersonal

(psychology) Prior to the development of the individual ego.


individual psychology

(psychoanalysis) A psychological method or science founded by the Viennese psychiatrist Alfred Adler.


self-disclosure

(psychology) A process of communication by which one person reveals information about themselves to another.


protégé effect

(psychology) The phenomenon that students who teach others learn at a better quality than students who don't teach.


act psychology

(psychology) A behavioral approach to psychological study with a focus on studying and inferring from actions rather than by studying through reflection or introspection.


content psychology

(psychology) An introspective approach to the psychological study of consciousness.


Gestalt psychology

(psychology) A school of psychology that emerged in the early twentieth century in Austria and Germany as a theory of perception, that was a rejection of basic principles of Wilhelm Wundt's and Edward Titchener's elementalist and structuralist psychology.


culture-bound

en-adj

culture-bound (comparative more culture-bound, superlative most culture-bound)

more culture-bound (comparative)
most culture-bound (superlative)

(psychology) Confined to a specific human culture.


Samsonic suicide

en-noun

Samsonic suicide (countable and uncountable, plural Samsonic suicides)

(psychology) Suicide as an act of revenge on somebody.


split attraction model

We'll be looking more at the 'split attraction model' of sexuality in the next chapter, and how romantic attraction and sexual attraction can be different for different people.

2021, Erin Ekins, Queerly Autistic: The Ultimate Guide For LGBTQIA+ Teens On The Spectrum, page 34:

The Split Attraction Model distinguishes between romantic and sexual attraction, meaning that someone could be romantically attracted to anybody but only sexually attracted to other genders.

2022, Cate Campbell, Sex Therapy: The Basics, unnumbered page:

Within asexual contexts, people commonly reference this distinction as the “split attraction model” (Przyblo, 2019), and many use this model in describing their personal identities.

2022, Amanda L. Mollet, “Asexuality & Asexuality Studies”, in Kamden K. Strunk, Stephanie Anne Shelton, editors, Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education, page 45:

(psychology) A model of human desire which distinguishes sexual and romantic attraction.


omnipotentiality

omnipotentiality (usually uncountable, plural omnipotentialities)

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PIE word
 *pótis
From omni- (prefix meaning ‘all’) + potentiality (“quality of having potential; (philosophy) capacity or possibility to be something”).

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In the faculty of absolute concretive conception, the Divine Self-existent Mind was intrinsically possessed of the omnipotentiality to involve and evolve, an omnimultiple, omnivaried and omnimutable creation; and truly, with no eternal, objective, absolute cosmos to cognize, inevitable necessity required that Deity should first concretively conceive the varied subjects, He would fain contemplate.

1878, W[illia]m N[ixon] Haggard, “Recognition VI. The Essential Activity of the Divine Absolute Mind, […]”, in Creation, as a Divine Synthesis. A Contemplative Treatise concerning the Inter-relations between Deity and His Creation, as Discoverable by and to the Human Understanding, London: J. Ridsdale, […], →OCLC, page 36:

We have already, and variously, accepted and maintained, as far as in us lay the power, as our "shibboleth" and "coign of vantage," the omni-potentiality of cell force in making life appear where life was not, and in forming and developing each and every vital entity, from the lowest to the highest, and adapting them to the conditions by which they are surrounded, […]

1894 May, James A. Carmichael, “Life in the Cell. Comparative Morphanthrolopogy.”, in Egbert Guernsey, Alfred K. Hills, editors, The New York Medical Times, a Monthly Journal of Medicine, Surgery and the Collateral Sciences, volume XXII, number 5, New York, N.Y.: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 135, column 1:

In this maturational process, one has to give up the many comforts of dependency, and many fantasies about one's omni-potentiality; for to commit one's self to something necessarily means to surrender something else.

1970 December 2 (date delivered), Kenneth Eric Nelson, witness, “Statement of Maj. Kenneth Eric Nelson, M.D., Chief, Psychiatric Consultation Service, Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, Calif., Department of the Navy”, in Drug and Alcohol Abuse in the Military: Hearings before the Special Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session on Examination of Drug Abuse and Alcoholism in the Armed Forces […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 1971, →OCLC, page 696:

As such, the infant supports the illusion of omnipotentiality and thus becomes a fit vehicle for whatever splitoff and grandiose fantasies the father might still entertain for himself.

1981, David L. Gutmann, “Psychoanalysis and Aging: A Developmental View”, in Stanley I. Greenspan, George H. Pollock, editors, The Course of Life: Psychoanalytic Contributions toward Understanding Personality Development (DHHS Publication; number (ADM) 81-1000), volume III (Adulthood and the Aging Process), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office [for the] Mental Health Study Center, Division of Mental Health Service Programs, National Institute of Mental Health; Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Services Administration, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, →OCLC, page 501:

The young man's comment "I've always had difficulty making choices" reflects a problem with "omnipotentiality"—a fantasy-based attitude, common among adolescents, that all things are possible, all choices are open. Usually this attitude is dispelled during mid- to late adolescence as most individuals are forced to confront the reality that some doors are not open to them.

2005, Thomas E. Brown, “Adulthood: Managing Responsibilities, Finding a Niche”, in Attention Deficit Disorder: The Unfocused Mind in Children and Adults (Yale University Press Health & Wellness), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 146:

Power, through its perversion of means and ends, not only considers omnipotence the greatest perfection, but, in its perverted form of greatest perfection, aims at the culmination of all potentialities – omni-potentialities[…]. This means that, at the heights of its omnipotence, power claims that all is potentially possible, but only as long as one does not attempt to put it (all potentialities) into action.

2015, Kristof K. P. Vanhoutte, “(All) Politics (are) from the Devil: Taking [Giorgio] Agamben to Hell (and Back?)”, in Benjamin W. McCraw, Robert Arp, editors, The Concept of Hell, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN:

For some, the manic "omnipotentialities" of adolescence and the idealistic optimism of youth harshly juxtapose with an ego-depleting nostalgic focus on decline, irreversible losses, missed opportunities, and a negative and unfavorable review of the past which generates deep regret and a perverse failure of optimism[…]

2017, Shahrzad Siassi, “The Trajectory of Remorse to Regret in Old Age”, in Salman Akhtar, Shahrzad Siassi, editors, Regret: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part I (Developmental Realms), page 45:

(chiefly psychology, uncountable) The characteristic or feeling that anything is possible, and there are no limits on what may be achieved; (countable, rare) an instance of this.

kaikkivoipaisuuden tunne

characteristic or feeling that anything is possible, and there are no limits on what may be achieved; instance of this


power of yet

(psychology) The ability to apply the growth mindset to a fixed belief about one's own capabilities, by invoking the future of potential learning, especially with the use of the word yet in statements.


growth mindset

Coordinate term: fixed mindset

(psychology) The belief that one's own intelligence or psychological capabilities are able to be developed and enhanced through the learning process, rather than being stagnant or unchanging.


fixed mindset

(psychology) The belief that one's own intelligence or psychological capabilities are stagnant or unchanging, as opposed to being able to be developed and enhanced through the learning process.


hyperbulia

(psychology) Excessive will or drive to do things.


premorality

en-noun

premorality (usually uncountable, plural premoralities)

(psychology) An infantile or animalistic form of decision making based simply on what will immediately benefit or disadvantage the subject.


elementalistic

en-adj

elementalistic (comparative more elementalistic, superlative most elementalistic)

more elementalistic (comparative)
most elementalistic (superlative)

(psychology) Of or relating to elementalism.


nympho-

classical compound
international scientific vocabulary

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, young woman, adolescent girl”).

der

(medicine, psychiatry) adolescent girl or young woman.


psychogenic pain

en-noun

psychogenic pain (countable and uncountable, plural psychogenic pains)

(medicine, psychiatry) Physical pain that is caused, increased, or prolonged by mental, emotional, or behavioral factors.


age identity

age identity (countable and uncountable, plural age identities)

"You're only as old as you feel." This cultural adage captures an understanding of age as more than simple chronology; rather, age is a construct having social content and personal meaning. This viewpoint is also reflected in a scholarly interest in age identity, or the circumstances under which people attach age labels to themselves and the consequences of those labels.

1992 December, John R. Logan, Russell Ward, Glenna Spitze, “As Old as You Feel”, in Social Forces, volume 21, number 2, Oxford University Press, →ISSN:

While all identities are inherently dynamic, age identity constitutes a special case of normative identity fluidity and temporality: individuals are expected to belong to different chronologically sequenced age identities over the course of their lives[…]

2020 January 16, Andrew D. Brown, The Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

One way in which generational studies can inform age identity studies is by leveraging the common age-based generational identity labels of Millennials, Baby Boomers, and Generation X to explore how their associated stereotypes […] can inform self and others' definitions.

2016 November 26, Emma Parry, Jean McCarthy, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Age Diversity and Work, Springer Publishing, →ISBN, page 60:

Most people's "age identity" appears to be heavy on the declining body and product placement, light on culture.

2004 January 15, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, “Age Identity Revisited” (chapter 7), in Aged by Culture, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 124:

(psychology) The age category such as "child", "young adult", "old person", etc. that is part of a person's self-identity.


summer depression

seasonal affective disorder
seasonal affective disorder

(psychology) Summer seasonal affective disorder.


summer blues

(informal, psychology) Seasonal affective disorder during the summer season.


pain disorder

(psychology, neurology) A type of chronic pain experienced in one or more areas, and is thought to be caused by psychological stress.


sleep regression

sleep regression (plural sleep regressions)

four-month sleep regression

Between their input and Google’s, Smith surmised that her daughter was experiencing what many parenting books and websites refer to as a “sleep regression” — a stretch of days or even weeks where babies suddenly don’t seem to sleep or nap in the same ways they used to.

2020 April 15, Jessica Wapner, “Are Sleep Regressions Real?”, in The New York Times:

(psychology) A period of days or weeks during the first two years of life characterized by a change in an infant's sleep patterns, leading to irregularities such as increased awakenings and fussiness.


phagism

Precosmophobic phagism, or undifferentiated phagism, is phagism with no limits of space or time: the devouring mouth, as it were, unites the individual with the whole world for all time.

1972, Samy Mokhtar, Abdel Malik, The Conquest of Cosmophobia: The Psychopathology of Civilization, page 289:

In the scale of awareness, scatism shares with cosmophobic phagism the cosmophobic level of awareness, although there can be no doubt that both culturally and individually cosmophobic phagism is far more important than scatism.

1974, Canadian Psychiatric Association, Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, Canadian Psychiatric Association., page 419:

(psychology, rare) A desire to eat that is not based on nutritional need.


Dunning-Kruger syndrome

There were two recognizable groups of the safety training attendees affected by Dunning-Kruger syndrome. The first one consisted of those that lack self-awareness about significant gaps in their knowledge or experience.

2018 March 14, Pedro M. Arezes, João Santos Baptista, Monica P. Barroso, Paula Carneiro, Patrício Cordeiro, Nelson Costa, Rui B. Melo, A. Sergio Miguel, Gonçalo Perestrelo, Occupational Safety and Hygiene VI: Book chapters from the 6th International Symposium on Occupation Safety and Hygiene (SHO 2018), March 26-27, 2018, Guimarães, Portugal, CRC Press, →ISBN:

Dunning-Kruger effect
Dunning-Kruger effect

(psychology) The condition of suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect.


grievance collector

grievance collector (plural grievance collectors)

injustice collector
injustice collector#English

(psychology) Synonym of injustice collector


grievance collecting

injustice collecting
injustice collecting#English

(psychology) Synonym of injustice collecting


grievance collection

grievance collection (countable and uncountable, plural grievance collections)

injustice collection
injustice collection#English

(psychology) Synonym of injustice collection


pluralistic ignorance

(psychology) The phenomenon whereby people mistakenly believe that everyone else holds a different opinion than their own, and may feel it necessary to go along with that opinion.


choiceless awareness

Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.

2023 February 2 (last accessed), Jiddu Krishnamurti, “The Core of the Teachings”, in jkrishnamurti.org, archived from the original on 2023-01-17:

(philosophy, psychology, spiritualism) The state of unpremeditated, complete awareness of the present without preference, effort, or compulsion; popularized in the mid-20th century by Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.

الوعي بلا اختيار

the state of unpremeditated, complete awareness of the present without preference, effort, or compulsion


psychoplastogen

Coined by American neuroscientist David E. Olson in 2018, from psycho- (“mind”) + plasto- (“plastic”) + -gen (“agent of production”), referring to the ability to rapidly promote neuronal changes via mechanisms of neuroplasticity.

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Although the molecular targets of classic and dissociative psychedelics differ (5HT and NMDA receptors, respectively), their plasticity promoting properties are similar and are known to activate TrkB, mTOR, and 5HT_(2A) signaling pathways, suggesting that these key signaling hubs may serve as potential targets for the development of "psychoplastogens," fast-acting antidepressants, and anxiolytics (Ly et al., 2018).

2018, Tanya Calvey, Fleur M. Howells, “Chapter 1: An Introduction to Psychedelic Neuroscience”, in Tanya Calvey, editor, Psychedelic Neuroscience, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 5:

The fact that LSD, psilocybin, and so forth act as psychoplastogens—agents that increase the plasticity of the mind—is part of what explains their therapeutic effects (Ly et al. 2018, Olson 2018).

2021, Chris Letheby, Philosophy of Psychedelics, Oxford University Press, page 148:

2022, Maxemiliano V. Vargas, et al., Psychedelics and Other Psychoplastogens for Treating Mental Illness, Antonio Metastasio, Graham Campbell, Renee Harvey, Peter Schuyler Hendricks, Joanna Caroline Neill, Katrin H. Preller (editors) Can Psychedelic Therapies open a New Frontier in Mental Healthcare (Or Will the Bubble Burst?), Frontiers Media, page 123,
FIGURE 7 | Comparison of traditional antidepressant treatments with hallucinogenic and non-hallucinogenic psychoplastogen treatments. *Currently, no clinical trials have been conducted with non-hallucinogenic psychoplastogens, and thus, their fast-acting and long-lasting effects refer to preclinical testing only.

(medicine, psychiatry, organic chemistry) Any of a group of small molecule drugs (notably including some psychedelics) that produce rapid and long-lasting effects on neuronal structure and function and whose use is intended to produce therapeutic benefit after a single dose.

psychoplastogène

any of a group of small molecule drugs that produce rapid, long-lasting effects on neuronal structure


Ovsiankina effect

en-noun

Ovsiankina effect (plural Ovsiankina effects)

Named after Maria Ovsiankina, a Russian-German-American psychologist (b. 1898–1993), who studied this effect.

Coordinate term: Zeigarnik effect

(psychology) The tendency to pick up an interrupted action again when it has still not been completed.


trauma dump

en-verb

trauma dump (third-person singular simple present trauma dumps, present participle trauma dumping, simple past and past participle trauma dumped)

trauma dumps (present singular third-person)
trauma dumping (participle present)
trauma dumped (participle past)
trauma dumped (past)

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I am not these men's therapists and I am not here for them to trauma dump while they neglect to consider my feelings or even listen to my stories.

2021, Lucy Perrone, "Ange déchu", SHEI Magazine, Fall 2021, page 43

He was meant to be making Adam feel better, not trauma dumping his own sorry past.

2022, Jennifer Knightly, Paradise Lost & Found, unnumbered page:

Many [professors] are happy to accommodate students or compromise on deadlines to an extent. There's no need to trauma-dump in your email—keep it simple and polite. Outline briefly where you're struggling and offer a time frame or plan that would allow you to complete the work in full.

2022 April 5, Holly Wethey, Wendy Zhao, Jackie Lee, “Exam-season survival guide”, in The McGill Tribune, McGill University, page 14:

(informal, psychology) To divulge one's personal difficulties inappropriately or without the consent of the listener.


trauma dumping

The interview process was pretty straightforward, consisting of standard scenario questions followed by an average amount of trauma dumping.

2021 October 6, Clara Gerlach, “Fordham Spearheads New Couch Psychology Practice”, in The Observer, Fordham University, page 12:

Venting to loved ones is fine, because it involves smaller, everyday problems; trauma dumping isn't because it involves bigger, deep-rooted problems.

2022 July, Mahevash Shaikh, “How to get emotional consent to vent”, in Happiful, number 64, page 39:

In a twist shocking to absolutely no one, much of the writing surrounding Women Talking has involved negative regressive accusations of wokeism and trauma dumping on one hand, and vague liberal fawning of praise on the other.

2023 February 7, Max Fattal, “Women Talking Refuses to Commit to Its Own Premise”, in The Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell University, page 5:

(informal, psychology) The act of divulging one's personal difficulties inappropriately or without the consent of the listener.


closing time effect

en-noun

closing time effect (usually uncountable, plural closing time effects)

Originates from the song Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time by Mickey Gilley in 1975.

(psychology) The phenomenon whereby people's perception of other people's attractiveness increases towards the end of the night.


alloplasticity

(psychology) The quality of being alloplastic.


autoplasticity

(psychology) The quality of being autoplastic.


CBT-I

When insomnia hits, she uses CBT-I – a form of cognitive behavioural therapy targeted to insomnia – as a remedy.

2023 March 26, Dr Ginni Mansberg, “‘Excellent evidence that this works’: how mind experts protect their brains”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

w:cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia

(psychology) Initialism of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia.


alethophilia

From Ancient Greek ἀλήθεια (alḗtheia) + -philia, equivalent to aletho- + -philia.

suf

(see title)

2020 September 22, Shaw Swadenroth, “Alethophilia”, in Substack:

(psychology, rare) A liking or love of the truth; a willingness to come to terms with truth or facts.


gender cleavage

(psychology, sociology) Social assortment by gender, in particular during middle childhood, when children are most likely to prefer playmates of their own gender.


middle childhood

en-noun

middle childhood (usually uncountable, plural middle childhoods)

(chiefly uncountable, psychiatry, sociology) The life stage between early childhood and adolescence, often defined by sociologists as roughly encompassing the years from age 6 to 12.


scare tactic

Invoking cancer is a scare tactic, not a health education strategy. The juxtaposition in the various iterations of Gardasil advertisements of the word “cancer” and the message “you can do something” put parents in a blameworthy position. The current advertisements for Gardasil 9 hardly mention the vaccine. Instead, in these ads children blame their parents for their failure to protect them from a potentially fatal illness.

2018 January 2, Samantha D. Gottlieb, “9. The “Tragically Underused” Vaccine”, in Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine. Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 143:

(psychology) A type of psychological manipulation regarding a particular issue in which fear or alarm is aroused.


animal reminder disgust

Animal reminder disgust refers to elicitors that remind individuals of their animal origins through sight stimuli such as blood, veins, tissue, and death. Violations of hygienic norms have been conceptualized as animal reminder disgust because they are related to animalistic behavior (Haidt, McCauley, & Rozin 1994; Rozin et al., 1993).

2008, Dean McKay, Reuben Robbins, “Chapter Two: Fears of Contamination”, in Jonathan S. Abramowitz, Dean McKay, Steven Taylor, editors, Clinical Handbook of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Related Problems, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 20:

2016, Megan Viar-Paxton, Bunmi O. Olatuji, 21: Measurement of Disgust Proneness, Herbert L. Meiselman (editor), Emotion Measurement, Elsevier (Woodhead Publishing), page 528,
However, some researchers have questioned whether core disgust, animal-reminder disgust, and contamination disgust represent conceptually distinct categories (Tybur et al., 2009) and an alternative approach that is based in the supposed function of disgust domains has been proposed.

Animal-reminder disgust, or more broadly existential disgust, has been proposed as a reaction to things that bring to mind our similarity with nonhuman animals, especially their mortal nature.

2018, Roger Giner-Sorolla, Tom Kupfer, John Sabo, “5: What Makes Moral Disgust Special? An Integrative Functional Review”, in James M. Olson, editor, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 57, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 269:

(psychology) A feeling of disgust triggered by reminders that one is mortal and that certain aspects of one's nature are inherently animalistic.

動物提醒厭惡 /动物提醒厌恶

feeling of disgust triggered by reminders of one's mortality and animalistic nature


downward drift

(psychology, social sciences) The phenomenon of people with mental illness moving ever downward along the social and economic scale after they reach adulthood and live independently.


pseudoreminiscence

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pseudorecollection

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pull up short

en-verb

pull up short (third-person singular simple present pulls up short, present participle pulling up short, simple past and past participle pulled up short)

pulls up short (present singular third-person)
pulling up short (participle present)
pulled up short (participle past)
pulled up short (past)

Deborah Kerdeman asks us to prepare for the occasions on which we will be “pulled up short.”

2015, Mary Jo Hinsdale, Mutuality, Mystery, and Mentorship in Higher Education, page 99:

(intransitive, psychology) To be overwhelmed or dumbfounded by events.


thin slice

Bernieri is an expert in what's known as "thin-slicing methodology". His research is based on the theory that we make a reasonably accurate assessment of a person from observing just a few seconds, or a "thin slice", of their behaviour.

2009 March 7, Rosie Ifould, “Acting on impulse”, in The Guardian:

(psychology) A minimal amount of information or experience used to make quick inferences about something through thin-slicing.


thin-slice

thin-slice (third-person singular simple present thin-slices, present participle thin-slicing, simple past and past participle thin-sliced)

thin-slices (present singular third-person)
thin-slicing (participle present)
thin-sliced (participle past)
thin-sliced (past)

If you've ever changed seats on a train or crossed the road to avoid someone, because there was something "not quite right about them", you've used your ability to thin-slice. […] but we thin-slice people in all kinds of situations, not just when we feel threatened.

Of course, first impressions are critical in any context, but especially when there's a potential relationship on the line[…]. That's because humans have a natural desire to "thin slice"—as in, digest small amounts of information (like, what's in your bio) to determine bigger decisions (read: whether this person is worth a date...or more).

2023 March 6, Alexis Jones, Megan Schaltegger, “These Tinder Conversation Starters Actually Work, According To Dating Experts”, in Women's Health:

(transitive, intransitive, psychology) To make quick inferences about something through thin-slicing.


thin-slicing

"Thin-slicing" refers to the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behaviour based on very narrow slices of experience. […] Thin-slicing is not an exotic gift. It is a central part of what it means to be human.

(psychology) The process or ability of making quick (and often accurate) inferences about the state or characteristics of someone or something based only on minimal information or experience (“thin slices”).


pseudoconsciousness

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(neuroscience, neurology, psychology, computer science) A state or condition that is not consciousness but seemingly or nearly approaches it or simulates it.


multifinality

Coordinate term: equifinality

(psychology) That different life outcomes can arise from similar circumstances in early life.


ego-expansion

en-noun

ego-expansion (countable and uncountable, plural ego-expansions)

(psychology) A broadening of one's sense of self.


PPMD

On the other hand, postpartum mood disorder (PPMD) can include the above symptoms, but it doesn't resolve quickly.

2016, Dr. Nancy Lins, Baby Blues: A Naturopathic Approach for Postpartum Health, Balboa Press, →ISBN:

(psychiatry) Initialism of postpartum mood disorder.


extinction burst

extinction burst (plural extinction bursts)

(psychology) A sudden, temporary increase in a conditioned reflex while it is otherwise declining in frequency and before it reaches the point of extinction.


quiet room

occupational therapy
occupational therapy

(psychology, mental health) A room in a mental hospital in which sensory deprivation provides patients with an environment free of distractions, often with padding on the walls and soft furniture similar to that of occupational therapy.


inversionist

As Freud elaborates his idea of an Oedipus complex and adapts to it his experiences of homosexuality, the congenital claims of Havelock Ellis and the inversionists are largely replaced by a developmental model.

2004, Alan Sinfield, On Sexuality and Power, page 12:

(obsolete, psychology) A proponent of the sexual inversion theory of homosexuality.


inversionism

Parents and teachers, having but little or no knowledge of the laws of nature, are unable to detect the victims of inversionism.

1855, Andrew Jackson Davis, The Great Harmonia: The reformer, page 117:

(obsolete, psychology) Homosexuality, regarded as sexual inversion.


behavioral economics

Now Canada is looking into this growing field of behavioural economics. […] Supporters view behavioural economics as a complement to classical economics, which assumes people make rational, well-informed decisions that are in their best interest.

2013 August 1, Bill Curry, “Canada studies Britain’s ‘nudge unit’ for ways to give the public a push”, in The Globe and Mail:

(economics, psychology) A field of economic analysis concerned with the influence of psychological factors on the economic decision making of individuals or institutions.


behavioral economist

behavioral economist (plural behavioral economists)

behavioral economics
behavioral economics

(economics, psychology) A person who studies behavioral economics.


anal-erotic

1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
J & I had beautiful sex. He stayed last nite & we were all over each other almost the entire time. […] He's wearing these these wonderful bikini underpants that are so full. He's really gotten to be an anal-erotic too which I just love.

(psychology, sexology) One who experiences or focuses their eroticism on the anus.

The social behavior of anal-erotics is strongly bound up with money and pedantic behavior.

1924, Isador Coriat, “A Note On The Anal Character Traits Of The Capitalistic Instinct”, in The Psychoanalytic Review, volume 11, page 436:

psychosexual development
psychosexual development

(psychology, sexology) One who exhibits personality traits associated with the anal stage of psychosexual development.


digital mind

"The digital mind is a shorthand designation for the ways digital computing generally and microprocessing technology specifically have altered not so much what we think but how we think and, subsequently, how we act."

2023 January 11, Brian L. Ott, “The Digital Mind: How Computers (Re)Structure Human Consciousness”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(neologism, psychology) A human mind, as affected by digital technology.


nervo-bilious

en-adj

nervo-bilious (comparative more nervo-bilious, superlative most nervo-bilious)

more nervo-bilious (comparative)
most nervo-bilious (superlative)

Patients to whom chamomilla is suitable are of a sensitive, irritable disposition, and do not bear pain with stoical indifference. They belong either to the purely nervous or the nervo-bilious temperament.

1876, E[dward] B[arton] Shuldham, Headaches: Their Causes and Treatment, second edition, London: E. Gould & Son, page 51:

(phrenology, obsolete) Easily excitable and with energy and strength of mind and body.


stereotype threat

(psychology) A situational predicament in which people are or feel themselves to be at risk of conforming to stereotypes about their social group.


Other

Semantic loan from French Autre, principally after French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (also as grand Autre) and philosopher Emmanuel Levinas.

In its most fundamental dimension, sacrifice is a “gift of reconciliation” to the Other, destined to appease its desire. Sacrifice conceals the abyss of the Other’s desire, more precisely: it conceals the Other’s lack, inconsistency, “inexistence,” that transpires in this desire. Sacrifice is a guarantee that “the Other exists” […]

1992, Slavoj Žižek, Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out, →ISBN, page 56:

The transformations of writing bear an ethical as well as an aesthetic or literary significance; writing implies orientation towards the Other in the midst of which a renewal of the self becomes possible.

2006, Lisa Guenther, The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction, →ISBN, page 123:

Critiquing the Western philosophical tradition of privileging the autonomy of the ‘I’, in which he uses Heidegger as exemplar, Levinas provocatively argues that the ‘I’ ultimately exists to be responsible for the Other – a responsibility based not on reciprocity (whether the Other behaves in accordance to expectations of the ‘I’) but on an asymmetrical and infinite kind of responsibility.

2015, Jonathan Corpus Ong, The Poverty of Television: The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines, →ISBN, page 17:

(philosophy, psychoanalysis) Radical alterity or otherness conceived or reified as a separate entity; “other people” altogether in their difference from oneself.


clustering illusion

en-noun

clustering illusion (plural clustering illusions)

(psychology) The tendency to erroneously perceive random streaks and clusters arising in small samples from random distributions as non-random.


masturbatory insanity

(psychology, dated) A condition of insanity in boys and young men, believed to be caused by habitual masturbation.


MBSR

(medicine, psychology) Abbreviation of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. (an eight-week evidence-based program to assist people with stress, anxiety, depression and pain.)


Diogenes syndrome

(psychiatry, psychology) A disorder characterized by extreme self-neglect, domestic squalor, social withdrawal, apathy, compulsive hoarding of garbage or animals, and a lack of shame.


retarded depression

(psychology, dated) A form of depression characterized by slow thinking and behavior (psychomotor retardation).


JTC

jumping to conclusions
jump to conclusions#English

(psychology) Initialism of jumping to conclusions.


crib talk

(psychology, linguistics) Self-directed speech by very young children most often spoken when alone, at night, just before falling asleep.


emotional competence

emotional competence (countable and uncountable, plural emotional competences)

(psychology) The quality of a person’s emotional response to any situation and how well they motivate a person towards beneficial responses.


ipsation

ipsation (countable and uncountable, plural ipsations)

Were this young boy a member of some primitive tribe he probably would find no need for ipsation, because at fifteen he would have found a sexual partner already and would be practising normal sexual intercourse with her.

1931, Wolfe W. Beran, Individual Psychology and Sex (1931):

At age of 10 he was initiated into ipsation after mutual inspection of a little girl but this was an isolated instance; he was only interested from a distance.

1941 October 24, Psychiatry Digest 1941-10: Vol 3 Iss 2:

In former times the dangers of ipsation were as much exaggerated as they have in recent times been underestimated. In the literature of modern medicine it is almost without exception considered an innocent action of compensation.

1961, albert niedermeyer, Compendium of Pastoral Medicine:

(psychology, dated) Solitary masturbation.


bedtime procrastination

Coined by Dutch researcher Floor M. Kroese in 2014.

coinage

2014 June 19th, Floor M. Kroese, Denise T. D. De Ridder, Catharine Evers, Marieke A. Adriaanse, “Bedtime procrastination: introducing a new area of procrastination” (article № 611), in Frontiers in Psychology: Personality and Social Psychology, volume 5, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, →PMCID, article title

(psychology) A failure of self-regulation wherein one fails to go to bed at the intended time, despite no external circumstances preventing one from doing so.


positivity effect

en-noun

positivity effect (plural positivity effects)

(psychology) The tendency of older adults to pay more attention to positive stimuli and to see things in an optimistic light.


Cantril ladder

Devised by American psychologist Albert Hadley Cantril, Jr. (1906–1969).

(psychology) A poll inquiring a respondent to express their level of happiness in their lives in terms of their perceived position on a ladder, where their worst possible life scores zero and their best possible life scores ten.


sensory play

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(psychology) Any playful activity designed to stimulate the player's five main senses, usually involving specific toys that emit bright light, play sounds, have strong tastes and smells, a distinct texture, or all of the above.


self-stimulate

en-verb

self-stimulate (third-person singular simple present self-stimulates, present participle self-stimulating, simple past and past participle self-stimulated)

self-stimulates (present singular third-person)
self-stimulating (participle present)
self-stimulated (participle past)
self-stimulated (past)

(psychology, intransitive) To engage in self-stimulation; to stim.


sensory deprivation

en-noun

sensory deprivation (plural sensory deprivations)

(healthcare, psychiatry) A situation in which stimulation of human senses, particularly sight and sound, is at a minimum, often to ease a patient's relaxation, such as in a quiet room.


dark empath

(psychology, informal) A person who uses an empathetic understanding of others to manipulate them.


delibidinize

en-verb

delibidinize (third-person singular simple present delibidinizes, present participle delibidinizing, simple past and past participle delibidinized)

delibidinizes (present singular third-person)
delibidinizing (participle present)
delibidinized (participle past)
delibidinized (past)

to delibidinize the parental imago

(transitive, psychology) To make no longer an object of sexual urges or attraction.


hyperempathy

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And hyper-empathy about others' suffering can get in the way of our ability to function.

2020, Sarah Jaquette Ray, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet, page 107:

Despite this, research to date has largely ignored the Autistic experience of hyper-empathy.

2023, Davida Hartman, Tara O'Donnell-Killen, Jessica K. Doyle, Maeve Kavanagh, Anna Day, Juliana Azevedo, The Adult Autism Assessment Handbook: A Neurodiversity Affirmative Approach, page 54:

Hyper-empathy not only motivates their [autistics'] involvement but also enhances their ability to make meaningful and significant contributions to these causes.

2024, Essy Knopf, Neurodivergent Game Plan: Cheat Codes for Empowered Living, unnumbered page:

(psychology) The state of having an above-average level of empathy, or of experiencing empathy more intensely than others.


expressed emotion

en-noun

expressed emotion (countable and uncountable, plural expressed emotions)

High expressed emotion (EE) experienced by people with mental illness is a known risk factor of relapse.

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

(uncountable, psychiatry) Negative or hostile attitudes expressed towards a person affected by mental illness by their family.


psychoecology

(ecology, psychology) A form of ecology which incorporates aspects from psychology.


subception

Since the internal environment of memory is selective on the basis of prior emotional reinforcements of experience, internal subception of images, ideas and such is necessarily very complicated.

2012, William F. O'Neill, George D. Demos, Philosophical Psychology: A New Frontier in Education and Therapy, p. 18

(psychology) An unconscious perceptual defense of applying strategies to prevent a troubling stimulus from entering consciousness.


language delay

(medicine, psychology, linguistics) A condition where a child does not acquire language skills within the typical age range.


imaginary friend

imaginary friend (plural imaginary friends)

(psychology) A phenomenon where a friendship or other interpersonal relationship takes place in the imagination rather than in physical reality.


goofy juice

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(psychiatry, humorous) A liquid medication once used to tranquilize psychiatric patients.


ego death

ego death (countable and uncountable, plural ego deaths)

(psychology) The complete loss of subjective self-identity.


symmetrical OCD

obsessive-compulsive disorder
obsessive-compulsive disorder

(medicine, psychology) A form of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in which the sufferer's compulsions are demonstrated by an irrational desire for symmetry in their life.


schiz

en-adj

schiz (comparative more schiz, superlative most schiz)

more schiz (comparative)
most schiz (superlative)

Clipping of schizophrenic. Compare schizo, schizoid.

a schiz patient

Taggart, and Chusid are goin' up to the schiz ward. Grein is being released on her own, pending she stays on her meds.

1997, Matthew Hall, The Art of Breaking Glass, Boston, M.A. […]: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 18:

"Kolla," Simon said. "She's really good. She counsels for us. You're having a little schiz break," he said.

1998, Steven Barnes, Iron Shadows, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 207:

Go into the doctor's office. He gives you schiz meds, you take them and the doctor and his office disappear.

2020 October 10, u/Tactical_Salt, “That's a big big win”, in Reddit, r/dankmemes, archived from the original on 2024-01-20:

(psychiatry, slang) Involving or pertaining to schizophrenia (in the medical sense); schizophrenic.


parallel processing

(psychology) The ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming stimuli of differing quality, e.g., color and depth.


time sense

Pathetic as its passing is, one cannot honestly regret the old school. I was looking last night at the programme of my very first hall, and received a terrible shock to my time-sense. Where are the snows of yesteryear? Where are the entertainers of 1895?

1915, Thomas Burke, “An Entertainment Night: Round the Halls”, in Nights in Town: A London Autobiography, London: George Allen & Unwin […], page 44:

(psychology) An ability to sense the passage of time and to estimate and compare its intervals.


Queequeg syndrome

(psychology, uncommon) A condition where a patient has adapted to and accepted an unrealistic role that a prejudiced society has thrust upon them.


timeless moment

en-noun

timeless moment (plural timeless moments)

(psychology) An experience where an individual's perception or sensation of time dissipates, and one feels a sense of total and complete involvement with another individual or with the universe as a whole.


amorance

October 31, 1989 : Cupid Tells All...: Everything you ever wanted to know about love in the Weekly World News

What is love? According to the first International Conference on Love and Attraction, it's "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feeling by the object of the amorance."

(psychology, rare) The condition of being in love.


missing time

The report of abduction, the memory loss, the missing time, and the shape of the UFO are all familiar to UFO investigators, for this is not an isolated episode.

1978, Brad Steiger, Alien Meetings, page 168:

We have already seen how the victims of UFO abductions seem to have 'missing time' - sometimes they have no memories of several hours of their lives.

1984, John Rimmer, The Evidence for Alien Abductions, page 45:

There were two to three hours of missing time in their return trip for which neither of them could account.

1991, David Allen Lewis, UFO: End-Time Delusion:

Hopkins describes "missing time" as a time lapse of approximately two hours, after which the abductee can consciously remember little or nothing of the experience.

1996, Angela Hague, David Lavery, Marla Cartwright (editors), Deny All Knowledge, Reading the X-Files, page 8:

While Johnson doesn't display many of the indications of alien abduction, he does have a period of missing time which can be absolutely verified, unlike most abductees' cases.

1999, Chris A. Rutkowski, Abductions and Aliens - What's Really Going On, page 153:

According to Zerbe, while he and his team were out at the crash site, they experienced a period of what in alien abduction terminology has become known as missing time.

2018, Nick Redfern, Top Secret Alien Abduction Files, What the Government Doesn't Want You to Know, page 127:

(psychology, parapsychology, ufology) A time period of amnesia or a gap in conscious memory reported by individuals who have experienced alien abduction.


time famine

(psychology, sociology) The sensation of having an excess amount of tasks or demands, and not having enough time to handle or tackle them.


alter-egotism

(philosophy, psychology) The identification of other beings or individuals with oneself.


association time

association time (countable and uncountable, plural association times)

(medicine, psychology) The amount of time elapsing between the moment of a stimulus and the moment of its verbalized response.

(psychology) The amount of time required for the completion or fulfillment of a mental association.


persecution complex

persecution complex (plural persecution complexes)

(psychology) One's perception that other people are conspiring to harm or undermine him.


BLIPS

(psychology) Initialism of brief limited intermittent psychotic symptoms.


preference cascade

preference cascade (plural preference cascades)

(psychology) The situation where people's private opinions reach a tipping point and become publicly expressed and accepted.


time agnosia

(medicine, psychology) The inability to sense the elapsing or passing of time.


time-marker

(physiology, psychology) An instrument that traces the timeline, usually in seconds, upon the smoked paper of a kymograph in physiologic experiments.


digital autism

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The authors have considered digital autism from the perspective of the most pressing problem of our time […]

2020, Svetlana Igorevna Ashmarina, Valentina Vyacheslavovna Mantulenko, Current Achievements, Challenges and Digital Chances of Knowledge Based Economy, page 642:

Freedom from reality and its objectivity can lead a human being not only to self-development and creativity but to the highest degree of loneliness and digital autism (Kuss, D.J., Griffiths, M.D., Karila, L., & Billieux, J., 2014). It can also amplify escapism and suicidal ideas typical of borderline cases and conditions.

2020, Mehdi Khosrowpour, editor, Encyclopedia of Criminal Activities and the Deep Web, page 665:

(psychology) Autism-like symptoms thought to result from excessive screen time.


anal sadism

It gratified his genital sadism as an act of sadistic coitus on the parental model; his anal sadism by 'putting his mark on her'

1927, Institute of Psycho-analysis (Great Britain), International Psycho-Analytical Association, Sigmund Freud, The International Journal of Psycho-analysis, page 19:

In the alcoholic, anal erotism is heightened, again owing to partial fixation, whilst anal sadism is correspondingly increased.

1928, Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain), Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine - Volume 21, Part 2, page 1353:

From this earliest phase the child continues to develop, through the first phase of anal sadism (as described by Abraham) with a gradual increase in erotic admixture to the second phase of anal sadism

1930, Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company, Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series - Volume 52, page 160:

(psychology, Freudian) A cluster of personality traits in the anal stage of psychosexual development, involving aggressiveness, destructiveness, negativism, and outwardly directed rage.


fake bad

en-verb

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

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

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


backward rationalization

en-noun

backward rationalization (countable and uncountable, plural backward rationalizations)

(psychology) The attribution of a reason or justification for a choice or action after the fact, rather than before it.


schizophrenia spectrum

schizotypal personality disorder
schizotypal personality disorder

schizoid personality disorders
schizoid personality disorders

(psychiatry) A classification of psychiatric disorders related to schizophrenia, also including schizotypal personality disorder, schizoid personality disorders and others.


ipseity disturbance

schizophrenia spectrum
schizophrenia spectrum

(psychiatry) A symptom of schizophrenia spectrum disorders characterized by disturbances in the patient's sense of self.


self-disorder

ipseity disturbance
ipseity disturbance#English

(psychiatry) Synonym of ipseity disturbance


M.R.C.Psych.

w:Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

(UK, psychiatry, postnominal qualification) Initialism of Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.


wound collection

wound collection (countable and uncountable, plural wound collections)

(psychology) Synonym of injustice collection


time sampling

time sampling (countable and uncountable, plural time samplings)

(psychology) A method of collecting data or information involving the notation and recording of an occurrence of a target behavior whenever it is observed during a stated time interval.


meta-attention

It was also determined whether, given the assumption of the existence of such a pattern, meta-attention would be correlated with academic achievement.

1982, Ann B. Loper, Daniel P. Hallahan, The Journal of General Psychology, volume 106, number 1, →DOI, page 27:

(psychology) Awareness and control of one's attentional processes.


lived time

lived time (countable and uncountable, plural lived times)

(philosophy, psychology) The time of one's inner subjective experience; a temporality of lived experience, understood through anticipation and memory.


audience effect

audience effect (plural audience effects)

Overall, understanding and exploring the audience effect may contribute to our models of social interaction, including reputation management and mentalising.

2016 October 13, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, Frida Lind, “Audience effects: what can they tell us about social neuroscience, theory of mind and autism?”, in Culture and Brain, volume 4, number 2, →DOI, pages 159–177:

(psychology) A type of social facilitation in which the presence of an audience influences individual task performance.


caution fatigue

Coordinate term: alarm fatigue

(psychology) A natural reaction to prolonged stress that causes one to experience exhaustion and renders one less motivated to adhere to safety guidelines.


middle child syndrome

middle child syndrome (usually uncountable, plural middle child syndromes)

(psychology, sociology) The belief or idea that the middle child of a family, who is born in between siblings, is treated or seen differently by their parents from the rest of their siblings.


endowment effect

endowment effect (plural endowment effects)

(psychology) The tendency of people to retain an object they own rather than acquire that same object when they do not own it.


generation effect

generation effect (plural generation effects)

(psychology) The tendency to better remember information if it is generated from one's own mind rather than simply read.


passive-dependent

From passive + dependent. First use appears c. 1949 in the publication Pyschological Problems in Mental Deficiency.

(psychology) Of a personality, characterized by both passiveness, a lack of self-reliance, and emotional overdependence on others.


name-letter effect

name-letter effect (plural name-letter effects)

(psychology) The tendency of people to prefer the letters in their name over other letters in the alphabet.


pratfall effect

pratfall effect (plural pratfall effects)

(psychology) The tendency for interpersonal appeal to change after an individual makes a mistake, depending on the individual's perceived competence.


Proteus effect

(psychology, video games, computing) A phenomenon in which the behavior of an individual, within virtual worlds, is changed by the characteristics of their avatar.


Ringelmann effect

Named after French agricultural engineer Maximilien Ringelmann who discovered the effect.

(psychology) The tendency for individual members of a group to become increasingly less productive as the size of their group increases.


serial position effect

serial position effect (plural serial position effects)

Meronyms: primacy effect, recency effect

(psychology) The tendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a series best, and the middle items worst.


sleeper effect

(psychology) A phenomenon where the impact of a persuasive message increases over time, even though the initial impact may have been minimal or negligible, often accompanied by a discounting cue.


testing effect

(psychology) The increase in long-term memory when part of the learning period is devoted to retrieving information from memory.


self-confrontation

(psychology) A technique for examining and modifying a person's behavior, based on analysis of their own feelings about themselves.


quiet hands

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(autism, psychology) In applied behavioral analysis, the desired behavior of keeping one's hands still, as opposed to stimming.


edumyth

FOREWORD: EDUMYTHS AND THE SLEEP OF REASON

2019 September 7, Craig Barton, Tom Bennett, The researchED Guide to Education Myths: An evidence-informed guide for teachers, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 2003:

The authors discuss some of the edu-myths of the time and spend considerable effort debunking them. That the myths themselves sound so familiar in 34 The Attack on Nova Scotia Schools.

2020 April 7, Grant Frost, The Attack on Nova Scotia Schools: The Story Behind 25 Years of Tumultuous Change, Formac Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 34:

Similarly discredited is the 'edumyth' that the brain's structure is defined by infancy or by adolescence.

2021 June 21, Lynne Hunt, Denise Chalmers, University Teaching in Focus: A Learning-centred Approach, Routledge, →ISBN:

Perhaps teachers have their own set of 'edumyths', beliefs which many (including neuroscientists) might hold but which are not true of education.

2022 November 15, Cathy Rogers, Michael S. C. Thomas, Educational Neuroscience: The Basics, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

(education, psychology) Pseudoscientific belief about education, pedagogy, or learning without an empirical basis.


body-focused repetitive behavior disorder (plural body-focused repetitive behavior disorders)

(psychiatry) A mental disorder characterized by uncontrolled manipulation on the body up to physiological damage and psychosocial impairment.

身體為中心的重複行為障礙 /身体为中心的重复行为障碍

shēntǐ wéi zhōngxīn de chóngfù xíngwéi zhàng'ài


count against

en-verb

count against (third-person singular simple present counts against, present participle counting against, simple past and past participle counted against)

counts against (present singular third-person)
counting against (participle present)
counted against (participle past)
counted against (past)

(transitive, of a fact, behavior, etc.) To be a black mark on (someone); to be able to harm (someone's) reputation; to be able to cause (someone) to be rejected.


task-oriented

From task + oriented. First appears c. 1953 in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

personal development
personal development

(business, psychology) Of a person or organization, focusing on prioritizing results above everything else, and discounting or disregarding the personal development or satisfaction of the team as a whole.


power of suggestion

en-noun

power of suggestion (countable and uncountable, plural powers of suggestion)

(psychology) The idea or theory in which one individual guides the thoughts and behavior of another through a suggestion or a proposal.


psychodiversity

Finally, at the sociological level, a renewed appreciation that mutation load and recent selection are important in explaining human psychodiversity might lead researchers to reconsider a range of issues in moral philosophy, socio-political ideology, and bioethics.

2011, Geoffrey F. Miller, “Are Pleiotropic Mutations and Holocene Selective Sweeps the Only Evolutionary-genetic Processes Left for Explaining Heritable Variation in Human Psychological Traits?” (chapter 13), in David M. Buss, Patricia H. Hawley, editors, The Evolution of Personality and Individual Differences, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 391:

(psychology) The variety of psychological attributes among individuals.


decathect

en-verb

decathect (third-person singular simple present decathects, present participle decathecting, simple past and past participle decathected)

decathects (present singular third-person)
decathecting (participle present)
decathected (participle past)
decathected (past)

From de- + cathect or a back-formation from decathexis, decathectic.

“He will continue manipulating Jonathan. We must get Jonathan to decathect from Michael.”

1969 August 12, Chaim Potok, chapter 12, in The Promise, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 242:

The writer only tried to decathect these obsolete and irrational reactions, especially by strengthening certain other—and just as typically Wolf Indian—vital and effective reactions, which counterbalanced the former, and were rooted in different aspects of Wolf ethics and mores.

1969 [1951], George Devereux, Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, New York: Anchor Books, page 174:

The psychiatric consultant in this situation often needs to spend as much time decathecting the anger of the treating physician as in dealing with the patient.

1983 March 24, Marvin J. Miller, “Factitious Illness Reconsidered”, in The Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, volume 76, number 3, page 180:

Such objects emphasize the physicality, the materiality of art—qualities which, as adults acculturated into a universe of abstract codes, we learn early on to decathect.

1989, Ellen Handler Spitz, “Primary Art Objects: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Picturebooks for Children”, in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, volume 44, page 367:

(transitive, intransitive, psychology) To detach or withdraw one's emotional energies (libido) from (something or someone).


emerging adult

Near-synonym: young adult

(psychology, sociology, medicine, often attributive) In some conceptions of human life phases, a member of the subset of adults who, although postadolescent (having passed the age of majority), retain some aspects of mental or emotional immaturity.


hypnotic suggestion

en-noun

hypnotic suggestion (countable and uncountable, plural hypnotic suggestions)

(psychology, parapsychology) A statement made during hypnosis describing a change in behavior or experience that does not require the conscious effort of the participant.


human development

human development (countable and uncountable, plural human developments)

(psychology) A branch of study dealing with the goal of understanding people and their growth and development throughout their lives.


perfect victim

The perfect victim, according to Dr Jason B. Whiting, is someone who is weak or vulnerable and “involved in a respectable activity at the time of victimization”. Therefore, the victim must be “blameless in all aspects of the interaction” with their offender, who is a stranger to them.

2023 October 20, Kim Machray, “The 'Perfect Victim' Myth”, in Empoword Journal:

(psychology) A victim of abuse who is blameless in all aspects of their interactions with the offender, often characterized by vulnerability, believability and respectability.


anauralia

(psychology, pathology) A condition where one does not possess an internal monologue.


theory of musical equilibration

theory of musical equilibration (uncountable)

(music, psychology) theory that music does not directly convey emotions but rather abstract volitional content that is emotionally perceived


accidental property

accidental property (plural accidental properties)

Coordinate term: essential property

(psychology, philosophy) A characteristic of something that is unnecessary to its essence, and in which a deviation of that characteristic has no effect on its essence.


essential property

essential property (plural essential properties)

Coordinate term: accidental property

(psychology, philosophy) A characteristic of something that is essential or necessary to its fundamental nature or existence.


psychic death

psychic death (countable and uncountable, plural psychic deaths)

(psychology, analytical psychology) A stage in which a dying person begins to accept their death and as a result, withdraws from others and regresses into the self.


pithecophobia

(psychology) The fear of apes and monkeys.


forced medicine

(medicine, psychology, psychiatry) The application or administration of treatment for an illness or a disorder without the patient's consent or authorization; the unauthorized medical intervention of a patient.


stim toy

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Autistic people often stim with the help of technologies such as music and stim toys or tools to mediate between inner worlds and outer environments that may over/underwhelm us.

2021, Erin Felepchuk, Disability Studies Quarterly:

(psychology, autism) Any toy, usually handheld, used for sensory self-stimulation.


mind-muscle connection

mind-muscle connection (countable and uncountable, plural mind-muscle connections)

(sports, psychology) The conscious focus and awareness on a specific muscle while it is being exercised.


labile affect

(psychology, psychiatry) The presence of rapid, unpredictable, and uncontrollable shifts in one's emotions, which can be a symptom of some psychiatric conditions.


developmental psycholinguistics

(linguistics, psychology) A branch of psycholinguistics that studies the acquisition of language in children.


mind cure

mind cure (usually uncountable, plural mind cures)

(medicine, psychology) A method or act of treating a disease using a mental procedure to treat it like a neurosis.


personal crisis

personal crisis (plural personal crises)

Coordinate term: psychological crisis

(psychology, psychiatry) A type of crisis in which a person can no longer cope with a situation, preceded by an event of an extraordinary nature triggering extreme tension and stress within a person.


psychological crisis

psychological crisis (plural psychological crises)

Coordinate term: personal crisis

(psychology, psychiatry) A type of crisis in which a person is threatening to harm themselves or others, or is substantially out of touch with reality.


inner chimp

again what we were a very long time ago-to rediscover our inner chimp-and that's not so demanding, really.

1997, The New Yorker, volume 73, numbers 30-36, page 30:

It appears the bonobo barcus' "inner chimp" is ooking and eeking in an attempt to deflect his allegation by thumping his chest and making demands where no demands need be met. You, bacus, have no cause to demand or request anything. You made an allegation, the onus of proof rests with you.

2003 May 18, Todd Klondike, “stormhole on the job!”, in alt.mothersuperior (Usenet):

However, the new insights do not discharge us from the responsibility to-in the spirit of temporality-realize more bonobo moments and tame our inner chimps!

2015, Cees Jan Hamelink, Media and Conflict, Escalating Evil, page 145:

The Inner Chimp is the part of the brain, so the theory goes, that sometimes we can't control. It can be impulsive, emotional or neurotic. The successful athletes are the ones who can control their Inner Chimp at crucial moments.

2016, Mark Chapman, The Love of the Game, Parenthood, Sport and Me:

People think of Montana as nigger free, unfortunately it has become infected. Not known what set lose^([sic]) its inner chimp, probably something related to food, tennis shows^([sic]) or cell phones. Probably imported by Oboingo, looks alot^([sic]) like him.

2018 February 28, Jesse, “Montana man 'beat a woman to death with a FRYING PAN and seriously injured two others”, in alt.france (Usenet):

The black, usually there to protect us in times of necessary fight or flight which requires the strongest to step forward, misfiring against its own community is the source of the inner chimp.

2019, Lee Morgan, Standing and Not Falling, A Sorcerous Primer in Thirteen Moons:

Our inner chimp is quick-minded, rash and lacking in even the most basic forms of judgement: it tells you to stay away from danger, and run at the first sign of trouble.

2020, Dave Holloway, Wonder Leads, Remarkable Lead Generation for Positive Small Businesses:

In his book, The Chimp Paradox, the psychiatrist Steve Peters explains that we have an 'inner chimp' (which some psychotherapists call an 'inner child') that hijacks us when we feel strong emotions.

2022, Nick Hatter, The 7 Questions, The Ultimate Toolkit to Boost Self-Esteem, Unlock Your Potential and Transform Your Life:

(slang, derogatory, psychology) The emotional part of the human brain that can cause a person to act impulsively and without regard for consequences.


functional psychology

(psychology) a psychological school of thought that was a direct outgrowth of Darwinian thinking which focuses attention on the utility and purpose of behavior that has been modified over years of human existence.


Phaedra complex

Named for the Cretan princess Phaedra who fell in love with her stepson, Hippolytus of Athens in Greek Mythology.

(informal, psychology) A designation to the sexual desire of a stepparent for their stepchild; the term has been extended to cover difficult relationships between stepparents and stepchildren in general.

Greek Mythology
Hippolytus of Athens
Phaedra (mythology)
Phaedra complex


conflict resolution

conflict resolution (countable and uncountable, plural conflict resolutions)

(psychology, sociology) The method and process involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of conflict and retribution.


extrinsic motivation

extrinsic motivation (countable and uncountable, plural extrinsic motivations)

Coordinate term: intrinsic motivation

(psychology) The motivation to participate in an activity based on attaining an external goal, such as garnering praise and approval, or receiving an award or payment, rather than engaging in an activity for its own sake.


Kellian

Stewart and Grantham (1993) report that Client C commented upon feelings of Kellian guilt on a number of occasions: "I suppose I was mourning the loss of my 'old self', the person I was, because in order to cope I've had to change. I feared most of all a loss of identity, that C. would become 'the one who stammers'".

2012 December 6, M. M. Leahy, T. Stewart, “Idiopathic Stuttering Onset in Adults”, in Yvan Lebrun, editor, From the Brain to the Mouth: Acquired Dysarthria and Dysfluency in Adults, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 142:

CTUK work with lorry drivers to help them subsume the experience of cyclists. Early in the training they are taken out on bicycles, on busy roads where they may experience Kellian threat first hand (drivers who are used to feeling protected inside a vehicle as opposed to sitting exposed on a bicycle), with significant shifts in their construing and driving.

2017, David Dansky, Clare Morris, “Carsickness: Reconstruing Driving and Cycling”, in Peter Cummins, Harry Procter, David Winter, Nick Reed, editors, Personal Construct Psychology at 60: Papers from the 21st International Congress, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 442:

personal construct theory
personal construct theory

(psychology) Related to the work or theories of George Kelly, especially personal construct theory.


textbook fear

textbook fear (countable and uncountable, plural textbook fears)

I really want to move away for university, but the textbook fear of being on my own keeps holding me back.

She experienced textbook fear when facing the difficult decision to change careers.

(psychology) A type of anxiety or apprehension felt toward a situation or decision that is commonly perceived as difficult, overwhelming, or universally feared, rather than based on personal experience.


high-masking

en-adj

high-masking (comparative more high-masking, superlative most high-masking)

more high-masking (comparative)
most high-masking (superlative)

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Privilege works both ways – a high-masking autistic has the privilege of choosing whether or not to share their identity, while a low-masking autistic has the privilege of not having their identity doubted or questioned.

2023, Jolene Stockman, Notes for Neuro Navigators: The Allies' Quick-Start Guide to Championing Neurodivergent Brains, page 34:

'Rules are very important to my girl and she will always follow them, also she is a high-masking autistic and tends to shut down rather than meltdown, so she rarely gets in trouble.'

2024, Rebecca Sparrow, Madonna King, Out of the Box: A One-stop Guide to Navigating Neurodivergence, unnumbered page:

My high-masking autistic personality, having achieved a semblance of “normalcy” by listening carefully to every word and every nuance, caught the hidden subtext.

2024, Tom Equels, The Horseman's Tale, unnumbered page:

(psychiatry, of an autistic person) Engaging in a high level of masking; prone to concealing or subduing one's autistic traits.


low-masking

low-masking (comparative more low-masking, superlative most low-masking)

more low-masking (comparative)
most low-masking (superlative)

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It worries me that for some of us our initial spark of awareness might be snuffed out by dismissive therapists who think they know what autism looks like when their clinical knowledge is limited to low-masking autistics.

2024, Steph Jones, The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy, page 153:

Autistic men's and low-masking perspectives were also less represented.

2024, Eleonora Marocchini, Irene Baldin, “Cross-Neurotype Communication from an Autistic Point of View: Insights on a Autistic Theory of Mind from a Focus Group Study”, in International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, volume 59, number 6:

(psychiatry, of an autistic person) Engaging in a low level of masking; not prone to concealing or subduing one's autistic traits.


low-support

low-support (comparative more low-support, superlative most low-support)

more low-support (comparative)
most low-support (superlative)

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My part was to help to organise and run the first workshop for low support autistic adults and their parents.

2018, Niina Laitila, "Awareness, Acceptance & Appreciation: A Road to Changing Views on Autism in South Africa", thesis submitted to Laurea University of Applied Sciences, page 29

While the diagnostic label of Asperger's Syndrome for low-support autistic people was removed from the DSM-5 and has mostly fallen out of favour on Tumblr, some still people still use and identify with that label […]

2019, Andrew Kirkconnel, "'Where Everyone Waddles Like Me': An Examination of the Autistic Community on Tumblr", thesis submitted to McMaster University, page 41

However, there is considerable potential for the evolution of these technologies, aiming to specifically address pragmatic deficits and social skills challenges present in low-support autistics at level 1.

2024, Keylla Ramos Saes, Anarosa Alves Franco Brandão, Elthon Manhas de Freitas, & Fraulein Vidigal de Paula, "Educational Content Personalization for Neurodiversity: A Survey of Technologies Supporting Linguistic Development in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)", Artificial Intelligence in Education

(psychiatry, of an autistic person) Requiring a low level of assistance to meet one's personal care needs.


high-support

high-support (comparative more high-support, superlative most high-support)

more high-support (comparative)
most high-support (superlative)

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"High support" autistic people meanwhile may be non-verbal and have more difficulties with fine motor skills, or any number of other difficulties that require a great deal of support to adapt to the neurotypical world.

2019, Andrew Kirkconnel, "'Where Everyone Waddles Like Me': An Examination of the Autistic Community on Tumblr", thesis submitted to McMaster University, page 13

In this regard, Participant 3 explained how the series initiated an interesting dialogue in episode 3 (Moon Ji-won & Yoo In-shik, 2022) by portraying how Attorney Young-woo’s autism was utilized by the prosecution in court as evidence to argue the reduced capacity of a high-support autistic defendant.

2022, Allegra Guizzon, "Extraordinary Attorney Woo: A Study into Perceived Representation of Autism by Autistic Women", thesis submitted to Erasmus University, page 34

In 2020, Eric Parsa, a high-support autistic young man, died after being restrained and sat on for 9 minutes by Jefferson Parish police in Louisiana.

2023, Alisha Salerno-Ferraro, "Improving Police Response to Autistic Persons: A Community-Informed, Attributional Approach", dissertaiton submitted to York University, page 2

(psychiatry, of an autistic person) Requiring a high level of assistance to meet one's personal care needs.


low-functioning

low-functioning (comparative more low-functioning or lower functioning or lower-functioning, superlative most low-functioning or lowest functioning or lowest-functioning)

more low-functioning (comparative)
lower functioning (comparative)
lower-functioning (comparative)
most low-functioning (superlative)
lowest functioning (superlative)
lowest-functioning (superlative)

(psychology, of persons with developmental or intellectual disability or mental illness) Unable to function in society; greatly affected by a disability or illness.

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


intralexical priming

(psychology, linguistics) A type of priming that occurs when a strong associate appears before a target word, causing the target word to be processed faster.


grief counselor

en-noun

grief counselor (plural grief counselors)

(psychology, psychiatry) A trained professional who assists a person in coping with the normal feelings of sorrow that arise after a loss or a tragedy.


carriance

(psychology) The carrying of another as a way of caring for them, associated with the concept of pregnancy.


victim mentality

victim mentality (countable and uncountable, plural victim mentalities)

(psychology) A psychological concept referring to a mindset in which a person, or group of people, tends to recognise or consider themselves a victim.


hyperchondria

Coordinate term: hypochondria

(psychology, neologism, rare) An uneasy emotion or sensation that is difficult to pin down inside oneself.


communication disorder

communication disorder (countable and uncountable, plural communication disorders)

(neurology, psychiatry) Any disorder that affects an individual's ability to comprehend, detect, or apply language and speech to engage in dialogue effectively with others.


neurodevelopmental disorder

neurodevelopmental disorder (countable and uncountable, plural neurodevelopmental disorders)

(neurology, psychiatry) A group of mental conditions affecting the development of the nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord.


psychotic disorder

psychotic disorder (countable and uncountable, plural psychotic disorders)

(psychology, psychiatry) A severe mental disorder that causes abnormal thinking and perceptions.


disquieted dependent

dependent personality disorder
dependent personality disorder

avoidant personality disorder
avoidant personality disorder

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


selfless dependent

self-defeating personality disorder
self-defeating personality disorder

(historical, psychiatry) One of the four subtypes of dependent personality disorder, including features of self-defeating personality disorder.


immature dependent

(historical, psychiatry) One of the four subtypes of dependent personality disorder, "pure" pattern which doesnt share features from other personality disorders.


accommodating dependent

histrionic personality disorder
histrionic personality disorder

(historical, psychiatry) One of the four subtypes of dependent personality disorder, including features of histrionic personality disorder.


ineffectual dependent

schizoid personality disorder
schizoid personality disorder

(historical, psychiatry) One of the four subtypes of dependent personality disorder, including features of schizoid personality disorder.


schizoid psychopathy

(historical, psychiatry) someone with schizoid personality disorder


narcissistic supply

narcissistic supply (countable and uncountable, plural narcissistic supplies)

narcissistic personality disorder
narcissistic personality disorder

(psychology, psychiatry) The constant need for attention, admiration, and validation that is pathologically or excessively demanded from one suffering from narcissistic personality disorder.