refrigerator mother

refrigerator mother (plural refrigerator mothers)

It was not until 1943 that Dr. Leo Kanner, an American pschiatrist, first diagnosed the syndrome in 11 children. . . . Kanner and others once postulated that these children were the products of "refrigerator mothers," women who are overly cold and intellectual.

1979 April 7, Helen Kohl, “The Strange Ones" Autism can be brought into our world”, in Montreal Gazette, Canada, retrieved 2012-11-18:

No present-day researcher takes the idea of the refrigerator mother as the cause of autism seriously.

2010, John W. Oller Jr, Stephen D. Oller, Autism: The Diagnosis, Treatment, & Etiology of the Undeniable Epidemic, →ISBN, page 49:

(psychology, dated, idiomatic, derogatory) An emotionally frigid mother, who does not exhibit normal care or love for her child or children.


narcissistic personality disorder

en-noun

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

narcissistic personality disorders (plural)

People with narcissistic personality disorder usually have very low self-esteem and base all their self-worth on how much attention they receive.

personality disorder
personality disorder

(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized largely by an overinflated sense of self-importance typically caused by unbalanced parental valuation during childhood.


histrionic personality disorder

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

histrionic personality disorders (plural)

Patients with histrionic personality disorder are sometimes accused of being attention whores.

(psychology) A personality disorder characterized largely by exaggerated emotions, and inappropriate attention-seeking and seductive behavior typically caused by undue amounts of trauma and related stress during childhood.

trastorno histriónico de la personalidad


anoesis

/ænəʊˈiːsɪs/

As if from an Ancient Greek etymon of the form *ἀνοησις (*anoēsis, “lack of intelligence, lack of understanding”); compare the English noesis and the Ancient Greek ἀνόητος (anóētos, “inconceivable”).

cog

(psychology) The reception of impressions or sensations (by the brain) without any intellectual understanding.


Lacanian

en-adj

Lacanian (comparative more Lacanian, superlative most Lacanian)

more Lacanian (comparative)
most Lacanian (superlative)

For him, then, the only truly liberating response is a Lacanian act, an attack on the fundamental fantasy of our current social configuration.

2009, Wesley C. Swedlow, Against the Personification of Democracy: A Lacanian Critique of Political Subjectivity, Continuum International, page 11:

(psychoanalysis) Of, pertaining to, or resembling the psychoanalytical views of Jacques Lacan (1901–1981).


retractive

retractive (comparative more retractive, superlative most retractive)

more retractive (comparative)
most retractive (superlative)

(psychology) Serving to distance or alienate.


sexual anorexic

en-noun

sexual anorexic (plural sexual anorexics)

(psychology, sexology) A person with sexual anorexia, a physiological loss of sex drive.


asyndetically

From asyndetic + -ally. Equivalent to a- + syndetically or to asyndesis or asyndeton + -ical + -ly.

(psychology) Demonstrating asyndesis, expressed with a seeming inability or diminished capacity to connect ideas.


inhabitativeness

(phrenology, archaic) A propensity towards permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.


amphigenous

(psychology, obsolete) bisexual (attracted to both males and females).


amphigenous

From amphi- + Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “gender”) + -ous.


schizoidia

schizoid personality disorder
schizoid personality disorder

(psychology) schizoid personality disorder


supraliminal

en-adj

supraliminal (comparative more supraliminal, superlative most supraliminal)

more supraliminal (comparative)
most supraliminal (superlative)

From supra- + liminal, by analogy with subliminal.

Coordinate term: subliminal

(psychology) Being above the threshold of consciousness or of sensation.

aistimusrajan ylittävä

being above the threshold of consciousness or of sensation


metaknowledge

en-noun

metaknowledge (usually uncountable, plural metaknowledges)

/ˈmɛtəˌnɒlɪd͡ʒ/

The acts of monitoring, hypothesizing, and verifying are internal work which require a person's metaknowledge or knowledge concerning what kind of knowledge is needed and how that knowledge is appropriately used in the situation.

1996, Reiko Hayashi, “Cognition, Empathy & Interaction”, in Advances in Discourse Processes, volume 54, →ISBN, page 22 (Google preview):

Meta-knowledge is knowledge about how to acquire and exploit information, rather than basic knowledge about the world.

2004, Andy Clark, Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence, →ISBN, page 67 (Google preview):

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(psychology, artificial intelligence) Knowledge about types, domains, functions, or preconditions of knowledge.


caseness

caseness (usually uncountable, plural casenesses)

From case (“instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms”) + -ness (suffix forming nouns denoting measures, qualities, or states).

suffix

(chiefly psychiatry) The state of accepted standardized diagnostic criteria for a given condition applying to a given patient, or the degree to which they are so applicable.


inflicted insight

en-noun

inflicted insight (usually uncountable, plural inflicted insights)

1971, The American Psychologist (American Psychological Association) XXVI, page unknown
Inflicted insight, as opposed to deceptive debriefing, is even defended by one writer as being in the subject’s best interests.

(psychology) Unsolicited revelation of aspects of one’s character, usually as a result of a deceitful experiment that has psychological dimensions, and especially where this results in emotional trauma and prolonged anxiety.


critical incident stress management

critical incident stress management (uncountable)

(psychology) A form of peer and group crisis response used to prevent psychological trauma such as PTSD and depression in first responders and military personnel.


amentiform

en-adj

amentiform (comparative more amentiform, superlative most amentiform)

more amentiform (comparative)
most amentiform (superlative)

a. 100 oer cent in acute and subacute amentiform conditions; b. 81 per cent in acute and subacute stupor; C. 71 per cent in acute and subacute hebephrenia; d. 68 per cent in acute and subacute paranoid-hallucinatory conditions.

1956, Arthur M. Sackler, The Great Physiodynamic Therapies in Psychiatry, page 87:

This would be in line with our findings that, in the French-Canadian multiparas (sometimes after the ninth or twelfth delivery), the amentiform - delirious syndromes and depressive episodes were relatively more often observed .

1974, Confinia Psychiatrica - Volumes 17-19, page 119:

(psychiatry) Resembling dementia or delirium, including disorganized thinking, incoherence, and memory disturbances.


tabetic

(medicine, psychiatry, dated) A person who has tabes.

(medicine, psychiatry, dated) A person who has syphilitic tabes dorsalis; a person with advanced syphilis including neurosyphilis.


antiphobic

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

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

(psychology, pharmacology) Counteracting a phobia.


associationist

Only a full-scale analysis of the origin and development of our sensations and ideas can provide this knowledge; so Hartley's associationist psychology becomes the prerequisite for moral knowledge.

1995, Richard Olson, Science Deified & Science Defied:

(psychology) A proponent of associationism.


infrahuman

(psychology) A creature that is not (yet) at the level of understanding of a human being, such as a presymbolic child or an animal.


presymbolic

Those nonverbal means of communication that are used tend to be presymbolic.

1995, Kathleen Ann Quill, Teaching Children With Autism, page 18:

(psychology) Not yet able to use symbols to communicate.


postsymbolic

(psychology) Having reached the stage of being able to communicate by means of symbols.


empiristic

empiristic (comparative more empiristic, superlative most empiristic)

more empiristic (comparative)
most empiristic (superlative)

An empiristic theory is a theory that some mental function, which is in question, is not innate in us, but is acquired by each individual – say through the process of association.

1914, Theodore De Laguna, Introduction to the Science of Ethics, page 199:

To be empiristic is to regard mind as entirely a product of experience.

1984, David Ballin Klein, The Concept of Consciousness: A Survey, page 25:

He did in fact seek to connect his empiristic theory of spatial perception wih an empiricist epistemology and an experimental scientific methodology;

1990, Gary Carl Hatfield, The Natural and the Normative, page 275:

The empiristic reader, even if he feels the strength of these arguments, will not readily abandon his theory. For these arguments have failed to show why empiricism is such a popular doctrine; therefore the reader will not yet see explicitly how the new theory explains those particular facts or aspects of facts which make his empiricism so dear to him.

2013, K Koffka, Principles Of Gestalt Psychology, page 210:

(psychology) Involving or pertaining to learned (as opposed to innate) behavior.


dementia praecox

en-noun

dementia praecox (usually uncountable, plural dementiae praecoces)

A Latin phrase coined by Arnold Pick in 1891, first used in German and later adopted into English. From the Latin dēmentia (“madness; insanity”) + praecox (“premature; untimely”, whence English precocious), together meaning “untimely madness” or “premature dementia”. Here, dēmentia carries the connotation of senile dementia.

af

whence English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">precocious</i>


overinhibited

en-adj

overinhibited (comparative more overinhibited, superlative most overinhibited)

more overinhibited (comparative)
most overinhibited (superlative)

Twenty-five overinhibited children and twenty-five unsocialized aggressive children were followed up in the spring of 1944.

1946, Lester Eugene Hewitt, Richard Leos Jenkins, Fundamental patterns of maladjustment: the dynamics of their origin:

Overinhibited children often benefit cathartically from dramatic play.

1968, Richard Courtney, Play, drama and thought:


oneirophrenia

en-noun

oneirophrenia (countable and uncountable, plural oneirophrenias)

From oneiro- (“dream”) + φρήν (phrḗn, “mind”) + -ia.

(psychiatry) A hallucinatory, dream-like state caused by sleep deprivation, drugs, etc.


sejunction

sejunction (countable and uncountable, plural sejunctions)

From Latin sejunctio. See sejoin, sejunct.

(psychology) An interruption of the continuity of association-complexes which leads to a breaking up of the personality.


ideasthesia

/ʌɪˈdɪəɛsˈθiːʒə/

From Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”) + -aesthesia, modeled after synaesthesia, and introduced by Danko Nikolić in.

der

(neurology, psychology) A neurological or cognitive phenomenon in which activation of a particular concept triggers a sensory-like experience.


dramatology

From Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), and -ology, -λογία (-logía, “study of”).

uder

(psychotherapy, psychiatry) The practice of viewing all symptoms as valid communications, including words, posture, tone of voice, and movements of the face and limbs.


reparenting

(psychology, New Age) A form of psychotherapy in which the therapist actively assumes the role of a new or surrogate parental figure for the client, in order to treat psychological disturbances caused by defective or abusive parenting.


mental disorder

en-noun

mental disorder (plural mental disorders)

(psychiatry) A behavioral or mental pattern that may cause suffering or a poor ability to function in life.


behavioral crisis

behavioral crisis (plural behavioral crises)

(psychology) An episode of mental disorder in a person that is considered unacceptable by the community, friends, family, or the person themselves.


dysmorphophobia

dysmorphophobia (usually uncountable, plural dysmorphophobias)

body dysmorphic disorder
body dysmorphic disorder

(dated, psychiatry) body dysmorphic disorder, dysmorphia


dysmorphophobic

en-adj

dysmorphophobic (comparative more dysmorphophobic, superlative most dysmorphophobic)

more dysmorphophobic (comparative)
most dysmorphophobic (superlative)

(psychiatry) Of or relating to dysmorphophobia.


libidinize

en-verb

libidinize (third-person singular simple present libidinizes, present participle libidinizing, simple past and past participle libidinized)

libidinizes (present singular third-person)
libidinizing (participle present)
libidinized (participle past)
libidinized (past)

In the intellectual there is an attempt to solve this conflict by libidinizing speech, thought and intellect, so that these become instinctual satisfactions within themselves.

1953, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, The Psychoanalytic Review, volume 40:

In the same way that he unconsciously and automatically libidinizes his body systems, the infant also libidinizes the mother.

1975, Waldo Emerson Nelson, Victor C. Vaughan, Robert James McKay, Nelson textbook of pediatrics:

(transitive, psychology) To imbue with sexual urges or attraction.


early childhood

en-noun

early childhood (usually uncountable, plural early childhoods)

(chiefly uncountable, psychiatry, sociology) A stage in human development, generally including toddlerhood and some time afterwards.

兒童早期 /儿童早期

stage including toddlerhood and some time afterwards


asyndesis

From Latin asyndesis, from Ancient Greek ἀσύνδεσις (asúndesis), from ἀ- (a-, “a-, un-: without”) + σύνδεσις (súndesis, “binding, joining”), from συνδεῖν (sundeîn, “to join, to bind”) + -σῐς (-sĭs, “-sis: forming nouns”), from σῠν- (sŭn-, “together”) + δεῖν (deîn, “to bind, to tie”). Equivalent to a- + syn- + -desis or a- + syndesis.

(psychology) A pattern of spoken or written discourse demonstrating inability or diminished capacity to connect ideas.


dereistic

en-adj

dereistic (comparative more dereistic, superlative most dereistic)

more dereistic (comparative)
most dereistic (superlative)

From Latin de re (“away from the thing”) + -istic.

(psychiatry, dated) Not in accordance with reality.


extracampine

Seeing somebody standing behind you is a visual extracampine hallucination experience.

(psychiatry, of hallucination) Beyond the possible sensory field.


intropunitive

intropunitive (comparative more intropunitive, superlative most intropunitive)

more intropunitive (comparative)
most intropunitive (superlative)


coenestopathic

(psychiatry) Of or relating to a localized distortion of awareness of one's own body.


Cotard's syndrome

Named after French neurologist Jules Cotard.

named-after

(psychiatry) A rare mental disorder in which the patient believes he or she is dead (figuratively or literally), does not exist, or has lost parts of the body.


puer aeternus

From Latin puer aeternus (“eternal boy”) (in Ovid, Metamorphoses), after use in German by Carl Jung.

(psychology) An archetype of eternal youth.


genetic memory

en-noun

genetic memory (countable and uncountable, plural genetic memories)

(psychology) A memory present at birth that exists in the absence of sensory experience.


race memory

race memory (countable and uncountable, plural race memories)

Even in my short life I had learned as much as that - or had inherited it in that race memory which we call instinct.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

(psychology) A supposed memory, present at birth, and that exists in the absence of sensory experience, that arises from the common experience of one's ancestors.


apophanous

en-adj

apophanous (comparative more apophanous, superlative most apophanous)

more apophanous (comparative)
most apophanous (superlative)

(psychology) Exhibiting or relating to apophany.


IAT

Implicit Association Test
Implicit Association Test#English

(psychology) Abbreviation of Implicit Association Test.


Implicit Association Test

en-noun

Implicit Association Test (plural Implicit Association Tests)

(psychology) a measure within social psychology designed to detect the strength of a person's automatic association between mental representations of objects (concepts) in memory


onychophagia

(psychopathology) Compulsive biting of one's nails


BPD

borderline personality disorder
borderline personality disorder#English

(psychiatry) Initialism of borderline personality disorder.


ENTP

(psychology) Initialism of extraverted, intuitive, thinking and perceiving: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator


ENFP

(psychology) Initialism of extraverted, intuitive, feeling and perceiving: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator


ESTP

(psychology) Initialism of extraverted, sensing, thinking and perceiving: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator


ESFP

(psychology) Initialism of extraverted, sensing, feeling and perceiving: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator


INTP

(psychology) Initialism of introverted, intuitive, thinking and perceiving: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator


INFP

(psychology) Initialism of introverted, intuitive, feeling and perceiving: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator


ISFP

(psychology) Initialism of introverted, sensing, feeling and perceiving: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator


ISTP

(psychology) Initialism of introverted, sensing, thinking and perceiving: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.


ENTJ

(psychology) Initialism of extraverted, intuitive, thinking and judging: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator


INTJ

(psychology) Initialism of introverted, intuitive, thinking and judging (“a personality type in the Myers-Briggs type indicator”).


ESTJ

(psychology) Initialism of extraverted, sensing, thinking and judging: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator


ISTJ

(psychology) Initialism of introverted, sensing, thinking and judging: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator


ENFJ

(psychology) Initialism of extraverted, intuitive, feeling and judging: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator


INFJ

(psychology) Initialism of introverted, intuitive, feeling and judging: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator


ISFJ

(psychology) Initialism of introverted, sensing, feeling and judging: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator


ESFJ

(psychology) Initialism of extraverted, sensing, feeling and judging: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator


transmarginal inhibition

(psychology) An organism's response to overwhelming stimuli.


chairwork

(psychology) A technique in which the patient moves between chairs, acting as a different person in each one, so as to understand the point of view of others.


double bookkeeping

page 56: It is especially important to know that these patients carry on a kind of “double-entry bookkeeping” in many of their relationships. They know the real state of affairs as well as the falsified one and will answer according to the circumstances with one kind or the other type of orientation—or both together. This last is especially frequent in mis(-)recognizing people: the physician “is now here as Dr. N.,” at other times he becomes the former lover.
pages 58–9: Therefore, he will at times answer correctly and at other times incorrectly, according to the constellation present in his mind at the moment. Nowhere does the “double-entry bookkeeping” stand out more prominently than in orientation. A patient, who for years speaks almost nothing but word-salad and acts accordingly, may nevertheless be perfectly capable of registering everything that goes on around him, even to the very day and hour.
page 147: Thus we have here two different personalities operating side by side, each one fully attentive. However, they probably are never completely separated from each other since one may communicate with both. Personality too has its “multiple bookkeeping.” In conversation, a patient may completely ignore or misunderstand any of our arguments and yet interpret them correctly at some later time.

1950, Eugen Bleuler, translated by Joseph Zinkin, Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias, International Universities Press:

While we waited for the doctor to evaluate him, my father did what mental health professionals refer to as double-bookkeeping. He remembered most of what transpired earlier in the day but still believed he was in the hospital to have his pacemaker checked.

2012 June 22, Jeneen Interlandi, “When My Crazy Father Actually Lost His Mind”, NYTimes.com

(psychology, psychiatry) The tendency, among those who experience delusions, to perceive reality and the delusions as both being real, while remaining unbothered by the discrepancy or inconsistencies between the two.


pithiatism

pithiatism (usually uncountable, plural pithiatisms)

/ˈpɪθiəˌtɪzəm/

From Ancient Greek πείθω (peíthō) + -ism; coined by Joseph Babinski.

(psychology) A form of hysteria that can be cured by persuasive suggestion.


dyssomnia

dyssomnia (countable and uncountable, plural dyssomnias)

(psychiatry, pathology) A difficulty in falling asleep, or in remaining sleeping


counterresistance

(psychology) resistance to a patient's influence on his or her therapy by the therapist, such as changing the subject


halo effect

(psychology) A cognitive bias in which judgment of somebody's character is influenced by an overall impression of him or her.


cognitive behavioral therapy

cognitive behavioral therapy (countable and uncountable, plural cognitive behavioral therapies)

Unlike drugs, cognitive behavioral therapy keeps working long after treatment is stopped, because it teaches thinking skills that people can continue to use.

2015 September, Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt, “The Coddling of the American Mind”, in The Atlantic:

(psychology) A psychotherapeutic approach that addresses dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and cognitions, focussing on a client's current state rather than on their past.


surgency

The Big Five Model of Personality categorizes traits into the dimensions of surgency, agreeableness, adjustment, conscientiousness, and openness to experience.

2001, Robert N. Lussier, Christopher F. Achua, Management Effectiveness: Developing Leadership Skills, South-Western Pub, →ISBN:

Contextual or collective surgency is likely to enhance personal well-being, curiosity, and value for friendship, as well as creativity. In the first place, personal surgency has fostered creativity (Feist 2010; M. Wang et al. 2017).

2019, Chau-kiu Cheung, Xiaodong Yue, Creativity in Chinese Contexts: Sociocultural and Dispositional Analyses, Routledge, →ISBN, page 113:

(psychology) A trait aspect of emotional reactivity in which a person tends towards high levels of positive affect.


decision fatigue

(psychology) The deteriorating quality of decisions made by a person after a long session of decision making.


HSP

HSP (countable and uncountable, plural HSPs)

highly sensitive person
highly sensitive person#English

(psychology) Initialism of highly sensitive person.


FP

FP (countable and uncountable, plural FPs)

Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) commonly have a favorite person (FP), whom they are heavily emotionally attached to and dependent on. This study aims to identify and illustrate the patterns of destructive FP relationships based on actual experiences described by those with BPD.

2022 December, Hyorim Jeong, Min Jin Jin, Myoung Ho Hyun, “Understanding a Mutually Destructive Relationship Between Individuals With Borderline Personality Disorder and Their Favorite Person”, in Psychiatry Investigation, volume 19, number 12, →DOI, →PMID, page 1069:

(psychology) Abbreviation of favorite person.


valenced

en-adj

valenced (comparative more valenced, superlative most valenced)

more valenced (comparative)
most valenced (superlative)

(psychology) Having a (often specified type of) value


covert stuttering

Covert stuttering is characterized by accessory features such as word substitutions, interjections, and stopping.

1991, Kerry E. Lewis, “The Structure of Disfluency Behaviors in the Speech of Adult Stutterers,”, in Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, volume 34, page 482:

[C]overt stuttering, also known as interiorized stuttering . . . may include avoidance of words or sounds, certain situations, certain people, and so on.

2006, David Ward, Stuttering & Cluttering, →ISBN, page 271:

Another mistaken impression is that covert stuttering is just a mild form of stuttering.

2006, Dale F. Williams, Stuttering Recovery: Personal and Empirical Perspectives, →ISBN, page 151:

Though this form of stuttering is a well-recognized clinical phenomenon, research on the topic of covert stuttering is insignificant (Boodstein and Berstein Ratner, 2008).

2011, Jill E. Douglas, An Investigation of the Transition Process from Covert Stuttering to Overt Stuttering: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Individuals Who Stutter, PhD dissertation, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, p. 16

(psychology, speech pathology) A manner of speaking in which a person who stutters is careful to avoid words, sounds, and other stimuli which trigger instances of stuttering.


associationistic

associationistic (comparative more associationistic, superlative most associationistic)

more associationistic (comparative)
most associationistic (superlative)

(psychology) Of or pertaining to associationism.


associanism

(psychology) An approach to psychology that predates behaviorism and that explains behavior in terms of learned associations.


crazymaking

Crazymaking interactions can occur between parent and child, husband and wife, employer and employee, and among friends. Of course, the most lethal of such interactions are found within the context of the parent-child relationship[…]

1974, George Robert Bach, Herb Goldberg, Creative Aggression: The Art of Assertive Living, page 86:

If you're the one left behind, you might be thrust into a pattern of crazymaking, or you might find you're just coming out of one.

2005, Loriann Hoff Oberlin, Surviving Separation and Divorce, page 1:

Learning the distinction between well placed concern and unfounded crazymaking is a life long lesson in developing good instincts and creating solid emotional boundaries.

2007, Michelle T. Johnson, Black Out, page 68:

(popular psychology) A form of psychological attack on somebody by offering contradictory alternatives and criticizing the person for choosing either.


GWT

global workspace theory
global workspace theory#English

(psychology) Initialism of global workspace theory.


autopsychological

autopsychological (comparative more autopsychological, superlative most autopsychological)

more autopsychological (comparative)
most autopsychological (superlative)

If the psychological domain is subdivided into the autopsychological, consisting of 'for-me' entities, and the heteropsychological, comprised of the mental contents of other subjects, then there are two reasons why the epistemic aims of the constructional system are best served by the choice of an autopsychological basis.

1993, Thomas Oberdan, Protocols, Truth and Convention:

(psychology) Describing the psychology of the self.


derealization

en-noun

derealization (countable and uncountable, plural derealizations)

From de- + real + -ization or derealize + -ation.

Coordinate term: depersonalization

Derealization frequently co-occurs with depersonalization disorder, in which affected individuals notice an altered perception of their surroundings, resulting in the world seeming unreal or dreamlike.

2008, Robert E. Hales, The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Pub, →ISBN, page 680:

(psychology) The psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal, and the patient has a sense of detachment from it.


foot-in-the-door technique

(psychology) A compliance tactic that involves getting a person to agree to a large request by first having them agree to a modest request.


door-in-the-face technique

Modelled on earlier foot-in-the-door technique, with the idea of having the door slammed in one's face when the original request is refused.

(psychology) A compliance tactic that involves getting a person to agree to a lesser request by first having them reject a larger one.


aboulomania

(psychology) A disorder characterized by abulia.


Adlerian

en-adj

Adlerian (comparative more Adlerian, superlative most Adlerian)

more Adlerian (comparative)
most Adlerian (superlative)

individual psychology
individual psychology

(psychoanalysis) Of or relating to Alfred Adler (1870–1937), Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology.

adleriano

relating to Austrian psychotherapist Alfred Adler


desk rage

(business, psychology) A sudden fit of anger caused by office-related stress or environment.


anlage

(psychology) Temperament, the predominant personality type.


aphanisis

From Ancient Greek ἀφάνισις (aphánisis, “disappearance”). Coined by Ernest Jones in 1927.

uder

(psychology) The disappearance of sexual desire, supposed to be the foundation of all neuroses.


psychagogy

The idea of a 'psychagogy' only occupies a secondary place, and has been more the concern of the disciples than of the master.

2013, Oliver Brachfeld, Inferiority Feelings: In the Individual and the Group, page 49:

(psychology) A psychotherapeutic method of influencing behaviour by suggesting desirable life goals.


winter depression

seasonal affective disorder
seasonal affective disorder

(psychology) Winter seasonal affective disorder.


transvestic fetishism

en-noun

transvestic fetishism (countable and uncountable, plural transvestic fetishisms)

(psychology) A paraphilia of some males, characterized by recurrent, intense sexual urges, arousal, or orgasm associated with fantasized or actual cross-dressing.


homeovestism

Kaplan goes on to define female homeovestites as women who dress in stereotypical ways and whose homeovestism is driven by extreme fear of being perceived as masculine.

2001, Shari Benstock, Suzanne Ferriss, editors, Footnotes: On Shoes, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 99:

(psychology) Sexual arousal in response to wearing clothing that is typical for one's sex.


Sprachraum

Unadapted borrowing from German Sprachraum.

ubor

[…] as an expansion of the language space, the Sprachraum. The language space of a child expands as his object relationships develop.

1976, In search of love and competence: twenty-five years of service, training, and research at the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center, Reiss-Davis Child Study Center, page 287:

As one works with different categories of patients, one discovers that each of them can be described in terms of the Sprachraum, the language space they have mastered and use in order to communicate with us, appeal to us, struggle with us, oppose us, resist us, and search for attachment of which they may well be afraid and must avoid.

1988, Achim Eschbach, Karl Bühler’s Theory of Language, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pages 6–7:

Many patients have very little Sprachraum, very little capacity for the use of language to expresss ^([sic]) their thoughts or perhaps to disguise their thoughts.

1989, Rudol Ekstein, The Language of Psychotherapy, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 280:

(psycholinguistics) the repertoire of language available to a given person


narcotherapy

(psychology) therapy that uses narcotics or other means to induce sleep


narcosuggestion

(psychology) A type of narcotherapy which relies on psychiatric suggestion.


apophenic

en-adj

apophenic (comparative more apophenic, superlative most apophenic)

more apophenic (comparative)
most apophenic (superlative)

(psychology) Of or relating to apophenia.


mental retardation

developmental disability
developmental disability

intelligence quotient
intelligence quotient

(psychology, dated) A developmental disability in which the person has a very low intelligence quotient, usually below 70, plus difficulty in multiple areas of daily life. Evidence of this disability must have appeared before the person reached adulthood for diagnosis.


crowd psychology

(psychology) A branch of social psychology which is concerned with the behaviour and thought processes of individual crowd members and the crowd as a whole; a study of the dynamics within large groups of people and the nature of the relationship between the individual and society.


Pavlovian conditioning

classical conditioning
classical conditioning

pavlovilainen ehdollistuminen

classical conditioning — see also classical conditioning


hypermoron

The proportion of hypermorons was found to be relatively large among manual laborers, domestic servants, army privates, sailors, school teachers, college instructors, telegraphers, stenographers, preachers, actors, farm hands, and small farmers. Attempts to elevate the harmless hypermoron from routine to independence are mistaken, "the deficiency is physical, the brain areas do not coordinate."

1917, TEXACO STAR, Fools - Natural And Presumptuous, page 9:

The cause is morinoia, habit-mindedness; the type of person is the moron, in three grades, the morose, the amiable and the hypermoron, or near-normal.

1917, William Eastbrook Chancellor, The hypermoron as educator, School and society v. 5

Mrs. Stoner devised six classes of people. In ascending order of value they were idiots; destructionists; morons; hypermorons (in which class she put most people); geniuses (who were creative); and progressionists (who could get things done in business and related fields).

2006, Christopher Gray, NYT, The Ungainly Duckling That Alighted Along the Park

arrested development
arrested development

(obsolete, psychology) A person exhibiting a specific form of arrested development.


presque vu

Borrowed from French presque (“almost”) + vu (“seen”).

The subtle, recurring confusion between illusion and reality that was characteristic of paramnesia fascinated the chaplain, and he knew a number of things about it. He knew, for example, that it was called paramnesia, and he was interested as well in such corollary optical phenomena as jamais vu, never seen, and presque vu, almost seen.

A psychologist might have termed it presque vu—the sense people sometimes get that something amazing is about to happen—but my name for it was much more humble: a harmony.

(psychology) A failure to remember something, with the sense that recall is imminent.


autism spectrum

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pervasive developmental disorder
pervasive developmental disorder

childhood disintegrative disorder
childhood disintegrative disorder

(psychology) The range of conditions classified as pervasive developmental disorders, generally held to include autistic disorder, Asperger syndrome, and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS). Also includes childhood disintegrative disorder and Rett syndrome.

自閉症スペクトラム障害

じへいしょうすぺくとらむしょうがい

自閉スペクトラム症

じへいすぺくとらむしょう


theory of mind

en-noun

theory of mind (countable and uncountable, plural theories of mind)

Lack of theory of mind is a classic symptom of autism-spectrum disorders

Older kids understand more broadly that other people have different thoughts, beliefs, and knowledge than they, the landmark of achieving Theory of Mind (ToM).

2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 7, in Behave, Penguin, →ISBN:

(psychology) The ability to form an opinion about what other people are thinking.

心智理論 /心智理论

(psychology, by extension) The intellectual ability to understand that different persons (other than the self) might have different intentions and knowledge.


antischizophrenic

en-adj

antischizophrenic (comparative more antischizophrenic, superlative most antischizophrenic)

more antischizophrenic (comparative)
most antischizophrenic (superlative)


parentification

(sociology, psychology) A process of role reversal whereby a child is obliged to act as a parent to its own parent or sibling.

親職化 /亲职化

a process of role reversal whereby a child is obliged to act as parent to its own parent


alief

en-noun

alief (countable and uncountable, plural aliefs)

Apparently formed to contrast with belief, as if it were B-lief and this were A-lief.

Abstract: I introduce and argue for the importance of a cognitive state that I call alief. An alief is, to a reasonable approximation, an innate or habitual propensity to respond to an apparent stimulus in a particular way.

2008, TS Gendler, “Alief in action (and reaction)”, in Mind & Language:

Simulated risk can invoke an alief of danger in subjects using a virtual environment. Alief is a concept useful in virtual training that describes situations where the person experiencing a simulated scenario knows it is not real, but suspends disbelief (willingly or unwillingly).

2011, Derek Harter, Shulan Lu, Pratyush Kotturu, Devin Pierce, “An Immersive Virtual Environment for Varying Risk and Immersion for Effective Training”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), →DOI:

In many cases, Bloom notes, it is actually aliefs that are involved, not full-blown beliefs. 'Alief' is a term coined by Bloom's colleague Tamar Gendler to refer to more primitive versions of beliefs that are responsive to how things seem, not how things are.

2012 November 1, Laura Sizer, “Review: How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by Paul Bloom”, in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, volume 70, number 4, pages 394–397:

Having the half belief (or what the philosopher Tamar Gendler calls an alief) that an image or decoy is literally what it represents is one thing, but how might one jump from that confusion, which is usually cleared up, to conceiving the abstract law that influence can be transmitted between the representation and it referent — the law of similarity?

2012, Matthew Hutson, The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us:

In response, they pop out of the fiction and refuse to imagine as the movie invites them because, ex hypothesi, their nonconscious alief that white human beings are superior leads them to react automatically and in affect-laden ways to the contrary story and implicit appraisals that Rodriguez and his fellow artists present. Some of Machete’s viewers […]

2013, Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Dan Flory, Race, Philosophy, and Film, page 22:

(philosophy, psychology) A primitive, subconscious belieflike attitude which may contradict one's conscious beliefs.


affective disorder

affective disorder (plural affective disorders)

(psychology) Any of various disorders characterised by disturbance in an individual's mood.


large-group awareness training

large-group awareness training (countable and uncountable, plural large-group awareness trainings)

large-group awareness trainings (plural)

Some of the other procedures used in certain of the large group awareness training (LGAT) programs and their offshoots contain processes to humiliate people (they resemble fraternity hazing events).

1996, Margaret Singer, Ph.D., “Intruding into the Workplace”, in Cults in our Midst, Jossey-Bass, →ISBN:

est and Large-Group Awareness Seminars: Arising out of the human potential movement in the 1960s were a number of workshops, seminars and training programs. The most famous human potential program was erhard seminars training known as est. est was an intensive 60-hour workshop designed to alter a person's life view. There are a number of est clones including Life Spring, Actualizations and Forum, which is a successor to est. All of these workshops have several features in common. Participants are verbally attacked. The idea is to break down emotional defenses in order to allow new beliefs and attitudes to take over. There is a significant cathartic element in that emotional release is generated by the est techniques.

2000, Donald A. Eisner, The Death of Psychotherapy: From Freud to Alien Abductions, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, →ISBN, page 60:

Both est and Landmark Forum could be classified as LGATs (large group awareness trainings), a sociological grouping that includes neuro-linguistic programming, Insight Training Seminars (see the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness), and a whole plethora of sales and motivational courses.

2004, Elizabeth Puttick, “Landmark Forum (est)”, in Christopher Partridge, editor, New Religions: A Guide: New Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative Spiritualities, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 407:

Landmark Education, as it's formally known, is hardly alone. There are any number of groups that foster change in an intense, supportive environment. Formally, they are gathered under the rubric 'large group awareness training.' A few groups are relatively new. Some have been around for decades. Almost all owe a major debt to a Unity minister named Alexander Everett.

2006, Jonathan Black, Yes You Can!: Behind the Hype and Hustle of the Motivation Biz, New York: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 133:

More direct evidence comes from a careful study of Large Group Awareness Training programs, variously known as Erhard Seminars Training (est), Lifespring, or simply the Forum. The basic procedure of these courses parallels the group training workshops ... but the emphasis shifts from group effectiveness to personal development. By talking through life challenges, aspirations, fears, and the like with fellow participants and professional counselors/teachers, individuals hope to change how they view themselves, their family and friends, and their prospects for a fulfilling life.

2010, John Gastil, The Group in Society, Los Angeles: SAGE, →ISBN, pages 228–229:

A large group awareness training (LGAT) program is a personal development training program in which dozens to hundreds of people are given several hours to several days of intense instruction aimed at helping participants begin to discover what is hindering them from achieving their full potential and living more satisfied lives.

2011, Robert Carroll, The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions, Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, →ISBN, pages Entry: "large group awareness training program (aka self-help and actualization movement)":

(psychology) (abbreviated LGAT) Activities usually offered by groups linked with the human potential movement which claim to increase self-awareness and bring about desirable transformations in individuals' personal lives.


LGAT

LGAT (countable and uncountable, plural LGATs)

large-group awareness training
large-group awareness training#English

(psychology) Abbreviation of large-group awareness training.


boomerang effect

boomerang effect (plural boomerang effects)

(psychology) A strong opposing response caused by attempts to restrict a person's freedom or change their attitudes.


copropraxia

From copro- (“dung”) + Latin -praxia (“-praxis”).

af

(psychiatry) An involuntary impulse to make obscene gestures.


high fantasy

en-adj

high fantasy (comparative more high fantasy, superlative most high fantasy)

more high fantasy (comparative)
most high fantasy (superlative)

Some children are much more inclined than others to engage in fantastical pursuits, such as pretending or having an imaginary companion (Taylor, 1999). Such a high fantasy orientation (FO) could have great potential relevance to children’s beliefs in fantastical figures.

2004 June, Tanya Sharon, Jacqueline D. Woolley, “Do monsters dream? Young children’s understanding of the fantasy/reality distinction”, in British Journal of Developmental Psychology, volume 22, number 2, archived from the original on 2015-03-06, page 295:

Jerome Singer (1973) divided a group of children aged six to nine years into high-fantasy and low-fantasy groups on the basis of their frequency of playing pretend games as contrasted with other kinds of play

2014, Candida Clifford Peterson, “Preschoolers”, in Looking Forward Through the Lifespan, →ISBN, page 237:

(psychology) Having a rich fantasy life; including having imaginary companions and playing pretend games.


chromesthesia

en-noun

chromesthesia (usually uncountable, plural chromesthesias)

(neurology, psychology) sound-to-color synaesthesia


vitative

en-adj

vitative (comparative more vitative, superlative most vitative)

more vitative (comparative)
most vitative (superlative)

(phrenology, archaic) Of or relating to vitality, love of life, and resistance to death and disease.


superliminal

superliminal (comparative more superliminal, superlative most superliminal)

more superliminal (comparative)
most superliminal (superlative)

If the illumination is steadily increased from sub-liminal to super-liminal values, the deeply saturated colour will come out from the blackness.

1924, James P. C. Southall (translator), Hermann von Helmholtz (author), Helmholtz's Treatise on Physiological Optics Volume 1 (1962 Dover edition, a translation of Handbuch der Physiologischen Optik, 1867), p. 367 (Google snippet view)

In him you simply have nature's top-notch imitator. He never questions, he never asks why. . . . His brain, the conscious, active, superliminal, is not able to grasp a situation and reason it out.

1930 Nov, Hubbard Nye, “Playing Nursemaid to a Chimpanzee”, in Boys' Life, retrieved 2013-11-20, page 67:

And it does not matter how you subdivide the mind into what you call the subliminal, the superliminal, the superconscious, the subconscious or whatever.

1948, Stewart Edward White et al., The Job of Living, page 80:

Conscious or subconscious, subliminal or superliminal, they are still “mental processes.”

2011, R. S. Perinbanayagam, Discursive Acts: Language, Signs, and Selves, →ISBN, page 76:

(psychology, physiology, of mental activity) Of, pertaining to, or involving conscious awareness; above the threshold of the subconscious.


autassassinophilia

(psychiatry) A paraphilia in which an individual is sexually aroused by the risk of being killed.


psychic numbing

(psychology) The tendency for individuals or societies to withdraw attention from traumatic past experiences or future threats with major consequences but low probability.


preautistic

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Bettelheim's (1967) theory of autism proposes that for several possible reasons (e.g., pain or discomfort, misperception) the preautistic child perceives that his mother has rejected him/her and begins to withdraw from him/her […]

1989, Johnny L. Matson, Chronic schizophrenia and adult autism:

(psychology, autism) Before the readily apparent onset of autism.


pregenitality

(psychiatry) The pregenital phase of development.


mitgehen

(psychiatry) An extreme form of mitmachen, where very slight pressure exerted on a body will cause a movement in any direction.


Sally-Anne test

en-noun

Sally-Anne test (plural Sally-Anne tests)

(psychology) A test measuring a person's social cognitive ability to attribute false beliefs to others.


superconscious

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You have to go to those who are at home in the unconscious and the superconscious, the artists and prophets; through myth and symbol in art, science fiction, or religion, they will describe the present by speaking about the future.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 135:

(psychology) That part of mind that is beyond the conscious.


alieve

en-verb

alieve (third-person singular simple present alieves, present participle alieving, simple past and past participle alieved)

alieves (present singular third-person)
alieving (participle present)
alieved (participle past)
alieved (past)

From alief, by analogy with belief and believe.

Therefore, regarding a person's moral character, it may be more important what one cares about and alieves than what one believes.

2015, Piotr Makowski, Mateusz Bonecki, Krzysztof Nowak-Posadzy, Praxiology and the Reasons for Action, page 121:

(philosophy, psychology, transitive) To subconsciously feel (something) to be true, even if one does not believe it; to hold an alief.


middle child

I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely.

As a middle child, you're not Mommy's big girl nor her little boy; you're just there.

1987 February 15, Jean M. Sarosy, “Topics: The Unseen Woman”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-04-27:

Elliott [is] the forgotten 10-year-old middle child between a teenager with a lot of friends and a precocious golden girl.

2002 March 30, Richard Corliss, “That Old Feeling: "E.T." Goes Home”, in Time, retrieved 2014-04-27:

My husband is the classic middle child, the peacemaker often overlooked by his parents.

2013 October 17, Carolyn Hax, “Tell Me About It: Middle-child syndrome, 2d generation”, in philly.com, retrieved 2014-04-28:

(psychology) In an immediate family containing three children, the child who is neither the oldest nor the youngest.


vicarious punishment

en-noun

vicarious punishment (countable and uncountable, plural vicarious punishments)

(psychology) A type of social learning in which a person is dissuaded from committing a certain act, as a result of seeing others punished for the same action.


hot reactor

Coined by Dr. Robert Eliot et al c. 1982

Secondly, BP and HR values at baseline and during test activity, and change scores (ie baseline level minus level during activity) are fairly stable on retesting. In other words, a hot reactor is still likely to be a hot reactor 6 months later.

1982, RS Eliot, JC Buell, TM Dembroski, “Bio–Behavioural Perspectives on Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension and Sudden Cardiac Death”, in Acta Medica Scandinavica:

(psychology, physiology) A person whose blood pressure and heart rate increase abnormally in response to stress.


sadistic personality disorder

sadistic personality disorder (plural sadistic personality disorders)

(historical, psychiatry) A disorder characterized by cruel, aggressive, demeaning, and manipulative behavior towards others.


puerilism

puerilism (usually uncountable, plural puerilisms)

With regard to hysteria; in dissociation there may be a secondary time disorder; for example a patient with puerilism said: "People all seem grown up and older. And my Mum, I'm sure I know her from a long time ago. I look at her, but I can't make it out."

1932, Aubrey Lewis, "The Experience of Time in Mental Disorder," reprinted in Inquiries in Psychiatry (Routledge, 2013), p. 14 (Google preview)

[T]he Dutchman Johan Huizenga, who coined the term puerilism in the 1930s . . . defined it as permanent puberty.

1962, Walter Laqueur, Young Germany: A History of the German Youth Movement, →ISBN, page xi:

A kind of puerilism marked many American attitudes — an unnaturally extended puerilism which tended to transmute itself into senility alarmingly and swiftly.

2004, John Lukacs, A New Republic: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century, →ISBN, page 286:

(psychology, psychiatry) Childlike behavior by an adult, especially as indicating a mental disorder.


hyperempathetic

en-adj

hyperempathetic (comparative more hyperempathetic, superlative most hyperempathetic)

more hyperempathetic (comparative)
most hyperempathetic (superlative)

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Perhaps in reaction to Lola's lack of sensitivity, Wendy became hyper-empathetic, even to inanimate objects.

2011, Julie Salamon, Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein, unnumbered page:

It was upon the basis of these ideas that our species – hyperempathetic, hyper-cooperative, homo sapiens – was founded and upon which we have found vast success.

2024, Nathan J. Murphy, The Ideas That Rule Us: How Other People's Ideas Rule Our Lives and How to Change It, unnumbered page:

Hyper-empathetic people are deeply impacted by the energy and emotions of those around them.

2024, Megan Anna Neff, Self-Care for Autistic People: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Unmask!, page 68:

(psychology) Experiencing heightened or intense empathy.


diagnosticity

en-noun

diagnosticity (countable and uncountable, plural diagnosticities)

(psychology) The quality of being diagnostic, or serving to give somebody information about themselves.


rubber room

"If you kept on worrying about being killed you could end up in a rubber room."

2002 December 6, Robert L. Jamieson Jr, “Dec. 7, 1941: From boy to man in one hellish day”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2014-08-07:

Barry is... well, what? Borderline autistic and obsessive-compulsive, with serious anger management issues and a dangerous behavioural disorder that in the real world would get him a one-way ticket to the rubber room.

2003 February 7, Peter Bradshaw, “Punch-Drunk Love”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 2014-08-07:

How is it that the Virginia Tech shooter Seung Cho and Adam Lanza weren't in a rubber room instead of in a classroom shooting people?

2013 Jan. 25, Comment by egginmybeer, "The gun lobby’s long reach," Boston Globe (retrieved 7 Aug 2014)

(idiomatic, psychiatry) A cell lined with cushions used for confinement of a mentally disturbed person.


dysnomia

dysnomia (countable and uncountable, plural dysnomias)

Dysnomia refers to a large group of children who talk and understand well but have difficulty with word retrieval.[…]Dysnomia is a well-established antecedent to stuttering or stammering.

1989, J. P. Mohr, Manual of Clinical Problems in Neurology, Little, Brown, page 315:

(neurology, psychology, developmental psychology) Impaired or deficient ability to recall words or names.


olfactory reference syndrome

olfactory reference syndrome (uncountable)

(psychiatry) A mental disorder in which the patient believes he or she is emitting abnormal and offensive body odors.


impostor syndrome

impostor syndrome (usually uncountable, plural impostor syndromes)

First observed as impostor phenomenon by Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A. Imes in 1978.

The office family is not the only phenomenon to watch out for at work. Another common psychological pitfall is something called the "impostor syndrome."

1984, Gay Bryant, The Working Woman Report: Succeeding in Business in the 80s, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 177:

The Myth of Growth and the surfacing of the Authentic Voice, with a dash of the Impostor Syndrome thrown in for good measure, combine to deprive women from deriving satisfaction out of the boring details of technical mastery.

1987, Sarah Hardesty, Nehama Jacobs, “Seeds of Disenchantment”, in Success and Betrayal: The Crisis of Women in Corporate America, 1st Touchstone edition, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 185:

We believe that this study suggests an important refinement in the study of women's career aspirations, one that moves us away from stereotypes about the women or the field, and certainly from any categorical ideas about women's fear of success, impostor syndromes, or self-sabotaging behavior.

1987, Cheryl R. Bailey, Martha T. Mednick, “Career Aspiration in Black College Women: An Examination of Performance and Social Self-esteem”, in Esther D. Rosenbaum, Ellen Cole, editors, Treating Women’s Fear of Failure, New York, N.Y.: Harrington Park Press, →ISBN; republished as Treating Women’s Fear of Failure: From Worry to Enlightenment, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, 2013, →ISBN, page 74:

My client, Sylvia, not her real name of course, combined fear of failure with the impostor syndrome.

1987, Julia A. Sherman, “Achievement Related Fears: Gender Roles and Individual Dynamics”, in Women & Therapy, volume 6, number 3, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, page 97:

(psychology) A psychological phenomenon in which a person is unable to internalize his or her accomplishments, remaining convinced that he or she does not deserve any accompanying success.

متلازمة المحتال

psychological phenomenon in which a person is unable to internalize accomplishments


Dunning-Kruger effect

Dunning-Kruger effect (plural Dunning-Kruger effects)

Coined on everything2 in 2002 by user uucp, who in 2005 copied the same entry to Wikipedia under the title Dunning-Kruger syndrome, named for David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University, who studied the phenomenon.

Though it grants them the advantage of higher levels of optimism, the Dunning-Kruger effect also hamstrings low performers with an even greater disadvantage: being less aware of their failings, they remain less likely to see the need, and thus make the effort, to improve themselves.

2012, Alex Lickerman, The Undefeated Mind, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

(psychology) A cognitive bias by which an unskilled individual suffers from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability as much higher than it actually is.


bibativeness

Coined circa 1843, by Orson Squire Fowler, as variant of earlier aquativeness (1843), by analogy with earlier alimentiveness (1828). From Latin bibō (“I drink”) + -ative (“related to”) + -ness (“the quality of”); compare Latin bibāx (“tending to drink”).

Just in front of Alimentiveness, is one or more organs which create a love of drinking, bathing, sailing, &c., which might be called Aquativeness, or Bibativeness, or Thirst, as thought best.

1843, Orson Squire Fowler, Phrenology and physiology explained and applied to education, page 193:

(phrenology, obsolete) penchant for drinking, love of liquids (not necessarily alcoholic), thirst.


aquativeness

Coined early 1843 (January or February) by Spencer Timothy Hall. From Latin aqua (“water”) + -ative (“related to”) + -ness (“the quality of”).

1843, The American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, Volume 5, p. 193:
Just in front of Alimentiveness, is one or more organs which create a love of drinking, bathing, sailing, &c., which might be called Aquativeness, or Bibativeness, or Thirst, as thought best.

(phrenology, obsolete, obscure) love of liquids, including drinking, bathing, and sailing.


heterosociality

Gagnon (1990; Gagnon & Simon, 1973) proposed important and relevant differences in sexual scripts stemming from women's socialisation into heterosociality before heterosexuality, in contrast to men's socialisation into masturbation and heterosexuality before heterosociality.

2002, Barrie Gunter, Media Sex: What are the Issues?, →ISBN, page 67:

Potkay is noticing much the same thing, I suspect, when he opposes the polite heterosociality of eighteenth-century conversation, […]

2013, Chris Mounsey, Developments in the Histories of Sexualities, →ISBN, page 245:

(sociology, psychology) Social interaction between men and women.

hétérosocialité

sociality with members of the opposite sex


interexperience

interexperience (countable and uncountable, plural interexperiences)

(psychology) experience shared with another person


irrelationship

irrelationship (countable and uncountable, plural irrelationships)

(rare, chiefly psychology) Quality of irrelation; lack of relationship.


social anxiety disorder

social anxiety disorder (countable and uncountable, plural social anxiety disorders)

(clinical psychology, psychiatry) The most common anxiety disorder, characterized by intense fear in one or more social situations, causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some parts of daily life.


allosexual

From allo- (“other”) + sexual. "Directed at or involving another rather than one's self" and "involving the other sex; heterosexual" are the most etymologically literal senses (regarding the latter sense, compare the structure of heterosexual), structural and semantic opposites of autosexual and isosexual. The sense "non-heterosexual" was influenced by (and had influence on) Canadian French allosexuel.

Dr. Conigliaro contended that the sharing of the same bedroom by a single parent and child of the opposite sex "could contribute to, or cause, an excessive degree of ‘allosexual identifications’, [where a child identifies with the parent of the opposite sex] […]"

1980, Federal supplement, series 1, volume 476, page 1330:

[…] We performed 45 experimental confrontations with heterospecific pairs. Confrontations (C. talarum vs C. australis) included allosexual and isosexual encounters.

1992 February, Aldo I Vassallo, Christina Busch, “Interspecific agonism between two sympatric species of Ctenomys (Rodentia: Octodontidae) in captivity”, in Behaviour, volume 120, number 1/2, pages 40-50:

(chiefly biology, sociology, psychology) Involving or directed at the other biological sex; heterosexual; not isosexual.


pedophobic

en-adj

pedophobic (comparative more pedophobic, superlative most pedophobic)

more pedophobic (comparative)
most pedophobic (superlative)

What if clowns were pedophobic? They wouldn't be very happy.

2004, Natalie Kristina Goldstraw, Superlative: Echoes of the Postmodern Condition, page 101:

(psychology, rare) Having a fear of children.


osphresiolagnia

From Ancient Greek ὄσφρησις (ósphrēsis, “sense of smell”) (from ὄζω (ózō, “to smell”)) + λαγνεία (lagneía, “lust, coition”).

uder

1910, Karl Abraham, Douglas Bryan, Alix Strachey (translators), The Man who Loved Corsets, reprinted in 1959, Harold Greenwald, Great Cases in Psychoanalysis, 1987, page 45,
In the present case it turned out that the patient had passed through a stage which corresponded to smell-fetishism, and that after this a peculiar modification had taken place by which his osphresiolagnia (abnormal interest in odors [Ed.]) had been repressed and his pleasure in looking had been sublimated to pleasure in seeing foot-wear which had an æsthetic value.

In the Hindu theory of ojas and sublimation, we may have an interesting complement to the Freudian hypothesis about osphresiolagnia and its 'repression'.

1950, Swami Smaranananda, Awakened India, volume 60, page 87:

This instance belongs to the field of osphresiolagnia, the fetishistic-libidinal attachment to odors, especially those emanating from some part of the loved one's body.

1964, Benjamin Karpman, The Sexual Offender and His Offenses: Etiology, Pathology, Psychodynamics, and Treatment, page 496:

(psychology, psychoanalysis) Sexual arousal through olfactory stimulation.


decathexis

en-noun

decathexis (countable and uncountable, plural decathexes)

(psychology) reversal of cathexis; detachment of the libido from some external object


attachment therapy

attachment therapy (countable and uncountable, plural attachment therapies)

(psychology, psychiatry) Any of a category of controversial alternative child mental health interventions intended to treat attachment disorders.


anaclisis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνάκλισις (anáklisis), intended as a calque of German Anlehnung.

(psychoanalysis) The choice of an object of libidinal attachment on the basis of a resemblance to early childhood protective and parental figures.


bureautic

Substantive adjective formed from the disorder bureausis (“psychological aversion to bureaucracies and bureaucratic behavior”).

(psychology) a person suffering from bureausis


bureausis

(psychology) A psychological aversion to bureaucracies or bureaucratic behaviors, which are perceived to be impersonal and dehumanizing.


preoedipal

(psychoanalysis) Before the formation of the Oedipus complex.


somaticize

en-verb

somaticize (third-person singular simple present somaticizes, present participle somaticizing, simple past and past participle somaticized)

somaticizes (present singular third-person)
somaticizing (participle present)
somaticized (participle past)
somaticized (past)

(transitive, psychology) To make somatic; to convert (psychological issues) into bodily symptoms.


preambivalently

(psychiatry) During the preambivalent phase.


preambivalent

(psychiatry) Of or relating to an early oral stage, prior to recognition of external objects and the development of ambivalent feelings toward them.


artificialism

(psychology) The belief that anything that exists must have been made by a conscious entity, such as God or a human being

artificialismo

the belief that everything has been made by a conscious entity


low fantasy

en-adj

low fantasy (comparative more low fantasy, superlative most low fantasy)

more low fantasy (comparative)
most low fantasy (superlative)

Jerome Singer (1973) divided a group of children aged six to nine years into high-fantasy and low-fantasy groups on the basis of their frequency of playing pretend games as contrasted with other kinds of play

2014, Candida Clifford Peterson, “Preschoolers”, in Looking Forward Through the Lifespan, →ISBN, page 237:

(psychology) Having a poor fantasy life, such as not having imaginary companions nor playing pretend games.


Napoleon complex

en-noun

Napoleon complex (plural Napoleon complexes)

(derogatory, psychology) Aggressive or domineering behaviour, claimed to be a form of psychological compensation for one's short physical stature.


pseudologia fantastica

(psychology) compulsive lying (telling of falsehoods)


hystericize

en-verb

hystericize (third-person singular simple present hystericizes, present participle hystericizing, simple past and past participle hystericized)

hystericizes (present singular third-person)
hystericizing (participle present)
hystericized (participle past)
hystericized (past)

(transitive, psychoanalysis) To make hysterical.


nature-deficit disorder

en-noun

nature-deficit disorder (countable and uncountable, plural nature-deficit disorders)

/ˈneɪtʃə ˈdɛfɪsɪt dɪsˈɔːdə(ɹ)/

/ˈneɪtʃɚ ˈdɛfəsɪt dɪsˈɔːɹdɚ/

Coined by American author and journalist Richard Louv (born 1949) in his 2005 book Last Child in the Woods, modelled on attention deficit disorder.

Nature-deficit disorder severely hampers, if not fully blocks, development of environmental literacy. Environmental communicators, educators and interpreters talk about their work as an 'antidote' or 'cure' for nature-deficit disorder.

2010, Richard R. Jurin, Donny Roush, Jeff Danter, “Developing Your Environmental Literacy”, in Environmental Communication: Skills and Principles for Natural Resource Managers, Scientists, and Engineers, 2nd edition, Dordrecht: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 49:

By its broadest interpretation, nature-deficit disorder is an atrophied awareness, a diminished ability to find meaning in life that surrounds us, whatever form it takes. This shrinkage of our lives has a direct impact on our physical, mental, and societal health. However, not only can nature-deficit disorder be reversed, but our lives can be vastly enriched through our relationship with nature, beginning with our senses.

2011, Richard Louv, “Singing for Bears”, in The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age, New York, N.Y.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, →ISBN, page 11:

So, what is nature deficit disorder? The highly contentious phrase comes from the journalist Richard Louv whose Last Child in the Woods became a rare example of a broadly ‘educational’ international bestseller on children’s relationship with the natural world. Louv argues that trapped within a society full of time constraints and technological advancements, children are losing touch with nature. Louv provocatively describes this condition as ‘nature deficit disorder’, resulting in ‘diminished use of senses, attention difficulties and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses’[…]. […] We reject both the ‘disorder’ and the ‘deficit’ tag for several reasons.

2015, Simon Boxley, Helen Clarke, Sharon Witt, Victoria Dewey, “Talking with Trolls: A Creative and Critical Engagement with Students' Nature-Naivety”, in Ken Winograd, editor, Critical Literacies and Young Learners: Connecting Classroom Practice to the Common Core, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 73:

Lest one imagine that this erosive scenario applies only to Indigenous or land-based peoples, one should consider hypotheses of nature-deficit disorders, which holds that loss of time and free play outdoors […] is impending creativity, learning, and spirituality, and enhancing the accumulation of stress, and incurring numerous health and behavioural problems[…].

2016, Kai M. A. Chan, Terre Satterfield, “Managing Cultural Ecosystem Services for Sustainability”, in Marion Potschin, Roy [H.] Haines-Young, Robert Fish, R. Kerry Turner, editors, Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services (Routledge Handbooks), Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 349:

(psychology) A disputed class of behavioural problems in modern children, ascribed to the fact that they spend little time outdoors.

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder


repose in action

(obsolete, rare, phrenology) The state or quality in which a person exhibits willingness to act rather than talk.


Simon effect

Named for J. R. Simon, who first published the effect in the late 1960s.

Studies by Ellen Bialystok at York University in Toronto revealed that bilingual speakers showed a reduced Simon effect compared to monolinguals.

2019, Albert Costa, translated by John W. Schwieter, The Bilingual Brain, Penguin, published 2021, page 99:

(psychology) The finding that reactions are usually faster and more accurate when the stimulus occurs in the same relative location as the response, even if the stimulus location is irrelevant to the task.


counterphobia

counterphobia (countable and uncountable, plural counterphobias)

Obviously it was related to the entire gestalt of Simon's polyphobia and compensatory counterphobia. The boys used to watch horror movies on late-night television […]

(psychology) A compulsion to seek out the causes of fear or anxiety instead of avoiding them.


schizoaffective disorder

schizoaffective disorder (countable and uncountable, plural schizoaffective disorders)

Dr. Melanie met with Annabelle and delivered her diagnosis: Benny was in the prodromal phase of schizoaffective disorder, and she was recommending that they stop the Ritalin and start him on an antidepressant for the mood disorder and an antipsychotic to treat the auditory hallucinations.

2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 102:

(psychiatry) A mental disorder in which symptoms of schizophrenia and an affective disorder, such as depression or bipolar disorder, occur concurrently.


musturbation

Blend of must + masturbation, coined by Dr. Albert Ellis.

Once the parents get a handle on their own musturbation, then they are in better shape to help deal with their children

1999, Arthur M. Horne, Mark S. Kiselica, Handbook of Counseling Boys and Adolescent Males: A Practitioner's Guide, →ISBN:

Musturbation makes us too sensitive to failure and I-can't-stand-it-itis makes even minor problems seem disastrous.

2003, Julia Russell, Matt Jarvis, Angles on Applied Psychology, →ISBN:

Thus, Irrational Beliefs that lead to such disturbed emotions as anxiety, anger/hostility, hurt, depression, shame and embarrassment, guilt, and jealousy largely stem, according to REBT theory, from a thinking process known as musturbation.

2007, Albert Ellis, Windy Dryden, The Practice of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, →ISBN:

(psychology) The compulsive insistence that things ought to be a particular way.


executive function

executive function (plural executive functions)

(psychology) Any of the cerebral processes that enable a person to expend willpower for the sake of completing tasks.


restitutive fantasy

restitutive fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural restitutive fantasies)

In restitutive fantasy, the person imagines some goal object which is not present in the environment: the fantasy thus serves as a replacement for the absent real object. The lonely child imagines his parents when they are away from him.

1963, Jesse E. Gordon, Personality and behavior, page 158:

If Keats cannot, in restitutive fantasy, resurrect "the teeming autumn, big with rich increase," his imagination will, in a second attempt, rise to another response in an effort to deny the obdurate blankness of the stubble-plains […]

1985, Helen Vendler, The Odes of John Keats, page 256:

The patient's aim is therefore that the analyst replace a missing part; it is not the process of self-exploration. The enactment of such a restitutive fantasy serves the defense against the depressive affect about loss: the defense against mourning.

2007, Leon Wurmser, Torment Me, But Don't Abandon Me:

Jeremy's father gave him a leg up into the restitutive fantasy of specialness by providing the adoption story of the “chosen” and “special” child.

2013, Susan Miller, Shame in Context, page 116:

(psychology) An imaginary reality created by someone to avoid what they cannot handle emotionally.


pedophilic disorder

The behavioral expression of pedophilic disorder often involves nonconsenting victims, since prepubescent children cannot legally give consent to sexual activity. However, the diagnostic criteria for pedophilic disorder have retained their DSM-IV-TR wording and thus differ from the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for the other paraphilic disorders involving nonconsenting victims.

2014 June, Michael B. First, “DSM-5 and paraphilic disorders”, in The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, volume 42, number 2, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, →ISSN, →PMID:

American Psychiatric Association
w:American Psychiatric Association

(psychiatry) An American Psychiatric Association clinical diagnostic classification of pedophilia, APA defines it as intense sexual fantasies about and attraction to prepubescent children by a person of 16 years or older for a period of 6 months or more.

pedophilia

an outmoded clinical diagnostic classification; American Psychiatric Association

pedophilia

a clinical diagnostic classification; World Health Organization

paraphilic disorder

a clinical diagnostic classification; American Psychiatric Association


leprophobia

I therefore entreat you to beware of the lepro-phobia that appears to be coming upon us.

1889, Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, number 12, page 123:

(psychology) An irrationally excessive fear of Hansen's disease (leprosy) and lepers.


avoidant personality disorder

avoidant personality disorder (plural avoidant personality disorders)

personality disorder
personality disorder

(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized by an irrational fear of rejection and anxiety in social situations.


schizoid personality disorder

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

/ˈskɪtsɔɪd ˌpɝsəˈnælɪɾi dɪsˈɔːɹdɚ/

/ˈskɪdzɔɪd ˌpɝsəˈnælɪɾi dɪsˈɔːɹdɚ/

(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized by social withdrawal, flat affect, very few, if any, close friends or personal relationships, excessive preoccupation with fantasy and insensitivity to prevailing social norms and conventions.


schizotypal personality disorder

schizotypal personality disorder (plural schizotypal personality disorders)

schizotypal personality disorders (plural)

(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized by an extreme discomfort in social situations and perceptual distortions.

trastorn esquizotípic de la personalitat

trouble de la personnalité schizotypique

transtorno de personalidade esquizotípica

trastorno esquizotípico de la personalidad


dependent personality disorder

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

dependent personality disorders (plural)

(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized by a dependence on others to take care of oneself and one's life.


breast envy

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(psychology) The sentiment of desiring feminine breasts.


body integrity identity disorder

(psychology) A psychological disorder characterized by the desire to have one or more healthy limbs amputated.


sociometer

(psychology, sociology) A theoretical gauge of interpersonal relationships, typically realised as self-esteem.


strong-handed

en-adj

strong-handed (comparative more strong-handed, superlative most strong-handed)

more strong-handed (comparative)
most strong-handed (superlative)

Interestingly, the study of hadedness and brain laterality is moving toward an approach where individuals are evaluated according to the degree they are “strong-handed” or “mixed-handed” rather than being assigned to the fixed categories left-handed, right-handed, or ambidextrous.

2009, Michael A. Jawer, The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion, →ISBN, page 300:

The fact that the correlations were stronger for the absolute than for the raw EHI scores indicates that handedness may best be thought of as ranging from perfectly mixed-handed (ie, an EHI score of 0) to perfectly strong-handed (ie, an EHI score of +/-100).

2005 July, RE Propper, SD Christman, KA Phaneuf, “A mixed-handed advantage in episodic memory: A possible role of interhemispheric interaction”, in Memory & Cognition, volume 33, number 4:

There was also a marginal interaction between gender and handedness for recreational risk ratings, F(1,128)=3.70, p=D.057, with mixed-handed females assigning equivalent risk ratings (M=3.34) as strong-handed females (M=3.35), while strong-handed males assigned higher risk ratings (M=3.44) than mixed-handed males (M=2.98).

2007 March, SD Christman, JD Jasper, V Sontam, B Cooil, “Individual differences in risk perception versus risk taking: Handedness and interhemispheric interaction”, in Brain and Cognition:


pleasure principle

Bork warns that America is in the grip of a radical individualism that recognizes no limit to the right of personal gratification, one for which the pleasure principle is the only principle that counts.

December 28 1998, Richard Lacayo, "Where The Right Went Wrong," Time (retrieved 4 July 2015)

Health, too, was a consideration, though it was very much pleasure-principle health—the right to wring out every last throb of ecstasy from one's knackered organs.

2002 January 26, Howard Jacobson, “A vision that took me back to adolescence, and a lot of American women to childhood”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2015-07-04:

They can’t seem to decide if the moral imperative is more crucial than the pleasure principle, or the other way around.

2008 March 16, Claire Dederer, "Brownstoners" (book review of The Future of Love by Shirley Abbott), New York Times (retrieved 4 July 2015)

The pleasure principle is, on the whole, a sound one, then: having what you like is fine so long as you don't have too much of it in one go.

2009 January 3, Blake Morrison, “A little of what you fancy”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2015-07-04:

(psychology, psychoanalysis, Freudianism, often hyphenated when used attributively) The principle that human decisions and behavior are strongly motivated by the instinctual desire of the id, arising in infancy, to experience pleasure and avoid pain.

快樂原則 /快乐原则

principle that human decisions are motivated by desire


delusionality

JTC was not associated with level of psychotic symptoms or specifically delusionality across the different groups.

2015 July 6, “Data Gathering Bias: Trait Vulnerability to Psychotic Symptoms?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(psychiatry) The quality or state of being delusional.


preconsciously

(psychology) In terms of, or by means of, the preconscious.


entitativity

Although there may be different bases for group entitativity in non-Western contexts, Yuki et al. (2005) observe that this does not undermine the significance of group memberships for cognition and behavior.

2014 August 25, Sammyh S Khan et al., “Efficacy and well-being in rural north India: The role of social identification with a large-scale community identity”, in European Journal of Social Psychology, volume 44, →DOI:

(psychology) The perception of a group as a single entity, distinct from its members.


reality principle

"What you're really talking about is the concept of postponed gratification," Dr. New says. "Freud said that one of the major ways to look at development is the task of the individual to subordinate the pleasure principle to the reality principle and that is a slow process."

1983 August 14, Harvey D. Shapiro, “Personal Finance: Summer Jobs—A Lesson in Economics I”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-07-22:

A flaky mom, restless with unrealized dreams. A wise child, stubbornly asserting the reality principle. . . . It is one of feminism's Ur-legends, the stuff of countless contemporary novels and films.

1999 November 22, Richard Schickel, “Cinema: Travels with Mommy”, in Time, retrieved 2015-07-22:

At first, we're likely to warm to Dean's exuberance and take against the apparently entrenched sourness of Cindy, who seems a slave to the reality principle; yet she is the only one of the pair who's remotely facing up to life's routine demands.

2011 Jan. 16, Jonathan Romney, "Blue Valentine" (film review), Independent (UK) (retrieved 22 July 2015)

(psychology, psychoanalysis, Freudianism, often hyphenated when used attributively) The mental mechanism which guides a person, as he or she matures, in adapting to and coping with the real, external world, by suppressing or deferring the childish gratification-seeking desires of the id.

現實原則 /现实原则

mechanism which guides a person in coping with the real world


introspectability

Introspectability cannot be the mark of the mental because one can introspect physical states, like indigestion or other internal physical events in the body.

2007, UMI, Eliminative Materialism and the Distinction Between Common Sense and Science, →ISBN:

Moreover, everyone will now accept that some aspects of our mental lives aren't even accessible to introspection. So transparent-access theorists need to provide an account o the distingction between those mental events that are, in principle, transparently accessible and those that are not. In effect, they need to provide us with a criterion of introspectability.

2013, Peter Carruthers, The Opacity of Mind: An Integrative Theory of Self-Knowledge, →ISBN:

For example, is introspectability a necessary condition for presence to consciousness?

2014, David Bennett, Christopher Hill, Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness, →ISBN, page 342:

The quality of being subject to introspection.

(psychology) The quality of being accessible to self-examination and awareness.


schizophrenialike

schizophrenialike (comparative more schizophrenialike, superlative most schizophrenialike)

more schizophrenialike (comparative)
most schizophrenialike (superlative)

His father described how other relatives had been mentally ill, including an aunt of the gunman who has a schizophrenialike condition.

2015 July 28, Jack Healy, “Aurora Killer’s Parents Plead to Spare His Life”, in New York Times:

(psychiatry) Resembling or characteristic of schizophrenia.

шизофреноподо́бный

resembling or characteristic of schizophrenia


pure O

obsessive-compulsive disorder
obsessive-compulsive disorder

(psychology, psychiatry) A form of obsessive-compulsive disorder mainly characterized by obsessive thoughts, with few observable compulsions.


emotional reasoning

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(psychology) A cognitive process that occurs when a person believes that what they are feeling is true regardless of the evidence.


counteradaptation

en-noun

counteradaptation (countable and uncountable, plural counteradaptations)

Several investigators haye found little or no adaptation to size, and the phenonmenon of counteradaptation has been offered as an alternative to the explanation that adaptation to a purely visual phenomenon (such as size) occurs through a different process than does adaptation to hand-eye coordination (as adaptation to distance is often measured).

1972, S.M. Luria, Christine L. McKay, Steven H. Ferris, Handedness and Adaptation to Distortions of Size and Distance Under Water, page 1:

Evidence for counteradaptation has been found in several studies; subjects who adapt to, say size, show relatively more distortion of distance, and vice versa (Ross and Lennie 1972; Franklin et al. 1970; Luria et al. 1973).

1985, Jo Ann S. Kinney, Human underwater vision: physiology and physics, page 104:

Franklin, Ross, and Weltman (1970) found that, after divers viewed objects for a 20-min period through a facemask under water that made them appear larger and closer, their mean size and distance estimates frequently revealed an adaptive shift to one dimension accompanied by counteradaptation to the other.

2013 -, Maurice Hershenson, The Moon illusion, page 188:

adaptation that counters a change to an organism's environment

(psychology) The distortion of one sensory modality that accompanies adaptation to alterations in a perceptual cues from a related modality.


UAF

User Action Framework
User Action Framework#English

(psychology) Initialism of User Action Framework.


autosuggest

en-verb

autosuggest (third-person singular simple present autosuggests, present participle autosuggesting, simple past and past participle autosuggested)

autosuggests (present singular third-person)
autosuggesting (participle present)
autosuggested (participle past)
autosuggested (past)


depth-psychology

en-noun

depth-psychology (usually uncountable, plural depth-psychologies)

depth psychology
depth psychology#English

(psychology) Alternative form of depth psychology


Jungianism

Jungianism (usually uncountable, plural Jungianisms)

Jungianism is, however, more beneficent, more catholic in its interests and above all more intuitive than Marxism. And—this was one source of friction between Freud and Jung—it is without hostility to the religious and spiritual elements in life.

1987 Nov. 2, Edwin M. Yoder Jr., "In the Shadow of Jung" (book review of In the Shadow of the White Bushman by Laurens van der Post), Washington Post (retrieved 21 Sep 2015)

Jungianism's rich symbolics and its orientation toward transcendent unification provided Pollock with more than artistic materials; they also participated, principally through his therapy, in recasting notions of self and mind faltering under personal stresses and cultural pressures.

1998, Michael Leja, "Jackson Pollock: Representing the Unconscious" in Reading American Art (Marianne Doezema and Elizabeth Milroy, eds.), p. 450 (Google preview)

analytical psychology
analytical psychology

(psychology) The theories and clinical principles of Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), which form the basis of analytical psychology.


micromania

micromania (usually uncountable, plural micromanias)

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Actually, when the I-God is universalized, as it is in my book, the whole God concept becomes one of humbleness, weakness, and inferiority, a micromania rather than a megalomania.

Jacob L. Moreno, Zerka T. Moreno, Psychodrama (volume 3, page 25)

(psychology) An extreme tendency to belittle oneself or trivialize one's achievements.


crusader complex

crusader complex (plural crusader complexes)

(psychoanalysis) A delusional state where the subject believes that he or she is struggling for a just and noble cause.


stressee

"Is the problem with the stressor or the stressee, or is it the match between the two?"

2007, Ana Maria Davila Gomez, David Crowther, Ethics, Psyche and Social Responsibility - Page 95:

(psychology, biology) an organism that is stressed


operational exhaustion

(military, psychiatry) The acute psychological trauma experienced in combat environments which can lead to combat fatigue.


lizard brain

(anatomy, psychology) The most primitive part of the brain; the brain stem.


deindividuate

en-verb

deindividuate (third-person singular simple present deindividuates, present participle deindividuating, simple past and past participle deindividuated)

deindividuates (present singular third-person)
deindividuating (participle present)
deindividuated (participle past)
deindividuated (past)

"Although the work ethic is valued positively in our society, the “workaholic” stereotype deindividuates all members of a group, those who conform as well as those who rebel."

2014, Roxanne Hovland, Joyce M. Wolburg, Eric E. Haley, Readings in Advertising, Society, and Consumer Culture:

(psychology) to view as a group rather than as an individual; to remove societal norms that shape individual behavior; to remove or reduce individually identifying information


TOT

en-noun

TOT (countable and uncountable, plural TOTs)

When experiencing a TOT, people not only retrieve a blocked word's sound and meaning; they also know some of its grammatical properties.

2001, Daniel L. Schacter, chapter 3, in The Seven Sins of Memory, How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN:

(psychology) Initialism of tip of the tongue.


postnatal depression

postnatal depression (plural postnatal depressions)

Her loneliness is made much worse by post-natal depression and delusions – which are represented with scarily plausible simplicity.

2021 July 11, Peter Bradshaw, “Three Floors review – Nanni Moretti melodrama lacks profundity”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

postpartum depression
postpartum depression#English

(psychology) Synonym of postpartum depression


cross-race effect

(psychology) The tendency to more easily recognize members of one's own race.


Jekyll/Hyde syndrome

dissociative identity disorder
dissociative identity disorder#English

(informal, psychology) Synonym of dissociative identity disorder


thought blocking

thought blocking (usually uncountable, plural thought blockings)

/θɔːt ˈblɒkɪŋ/

/θɔːt ˈblɑkɪŋ/

(psychiatry) The phenomenon, in schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders, where a person's speech is suddenly interrupted by silences.


amotivational

(psychology) Relating to, or characterised by, a lack of motivation.


double depression

(psychology) The combination of depression and dysthymia.


bisociation

bisociation (countable and uncountable, plural bisociations)

Blend of bi- + association; coined by Hungarian-British author Arthur Koestler in his 1964 book The Act of Creation.

coin

Arthur Koestler's concept of bisociation was introduced in the last chapter to explain how associating two absurd or ridiculous ideas gives rise to humour. Koestler goes on to describe how bisociation may be the key to creativity.

1995, Mike Baxter, Product Design, page 68:

In Memoirs of a Woman Doctor, images of confinement merge with family images. One of the most memorable of these bisociations is that involving the mother's "imprisonment" of the first-person narrator's hair in braids.

1995, Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics, page 167:

Bisociation is the contact of two operative fields.[…]The junctional concept which connects the ideas of two operative fields, is the bisociative concept, and the combination of two mental associations which are logically unrelated in bisociation.

2008, J. Nazareth, The Psychology of Military Humour, unnumbered page:

2010, Marc Segolt, Christian Borgelt, Selecting the Links in BisoNets Generated from Document Collections, Paul R. Cohen, Niall M. Adams, Michael R. Berthold (editors), Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis IX: 9th International Symposium, IDA 2010, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 6605, page 197,
Several famous scientific discoveries are good examples of bisociations, for instance Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation and James C. Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic waves.

In 1964, Arthur Koestler proposed a theory of general creativity wherein he outlined the process of bisociation and explained its importance with respect to originality. The phenomenon of bisociation involves the intermingling or bringing together of two or more unconnected matrices of thought.

2014, Naresh N. Vempala, “Creativity, Theories of Musical”, in William Forde Thompson, editor, Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia, page 276:

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

Gilles Fauconnier
Mark Turner (cognitive scientist)
The Act of Creation
conceptual blending


day's residue

Calque of German Tagesreste, coined by Sigmund Freud.

(psychoanalysis) Elements of the events of the preceding day that subsequently occur in a dream.


pathological science

en-noun

pathological science (countable and uncountable, plural pathological sciences)

(psychology) A scientific pursuit in which the scientific method has been abandoned in favor of interpretations which conform to the desire of the observer.


depressive realism

(psychology) The controversial hypothesis that people suffering from depression actually have a more accurate perception of reality than those who do not have it.


focalism

How can focalism be reduced? The method of debiasing depends on the type of focalism affecting one's judgments.

2007, Roy F. Baumeister, Kathleen D. Vohs (eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, page 353:


dermatillomania

From Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin”) + τίλλω (tíllō, “I pull out, pluck”) + μανία (manía, “madness”).

(psychiatry) A mental disorder characterized by the urge to pick at one's own skin.


lawn dart effect

(psychology) An effect observed in fighter aircraft pilots, where horizontal acceleration at more than 1 standard gravity causes extreme stimulation of the vestibular system and leads to the faulty perception that the aircraft is climbing.


nexting

(psychology) The continual process of predicting what is likely to happen next, based on external stimuli.


self-licensing

(psychology) The subconscious phenomenon where, having previously done a good deed, a person is more likely to allow themselves to act in an immoral way.


hodophobic

en-adj

hodophobic (comparative more hodophobic, superlative most hodophobic)

more hodophobic (comparative)
most hodophobic (superlative)

From hodo- (prefix meaning ‘path, road; travel’) + -phobic (suffix forming adjectives indicating an aversion or dislike, or a fear of a specific thing). Hodo- is derived from Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós, “path, road, way; journey”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”); while -phobic is from -phobia (from Late Latin -phobia, from Koine Greek -φοβία (-phobía), ultimately from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “alarm, fear, terror”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰegʷ- (“to flee, run”)) + -ic (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ from nouns).
Sense 1 (“of the dendrites of neurons: tending not to form branches”) was possibly coined by Enrique Ramón-Moliner and Walle Nauta in a 1966 article: see the quotation.

der

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychology, was hodophobic, afraid of traveling.

1990 April, Denise Hastings, “Maybe I Do Have a Phobia, but So Does Everyone, Right?”, in Josie F[ernandez] Jackson, editor, In Formation, volume II, number 4, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss.: Public Affairs Office, 403rd Tactical Airlift Wing, →OCLC, page 2, column 3:

Estimates of the number of hodophobic Americans—ranging from those who drive, ride or fly with white knuckles to those who don't travel at all—run as high as 10 percent of the population.

1995, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman, volume 101, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC:

Everybody, including the hodophobic, inebriated Maureen Stapleton, arrived in New York very, very happy.

1995, Maureen Stapleton, Jane Scovell, chapter 10, in A Hell of a Life: An Autobiography, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 249:

Cars are small. Too small. Your dog gets claustrophobic. Your gear gets cleisiophobic (fear of being locked in small, enclosed spaces). Your significant other gets hodophobic (fear of road travel). It's enough to make you lyssophobic (fear of going mad). Which is just another way of saying, at Isuzu, we're carophobic. That's why we make the surprisingly spacious Isuzu Rodeo.

1999 May, “Yeah, We’re Carophobics [advertisement]”, in Thom Hogan, editor, Backpacker: The Magazine of Wilderness Travel, volume 27, issue 177, number 4, Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13:

[O]f course, the murderous innkeeper is a stereotype in hodophobic (fear of road travel) horror and suspense novels and films.

2008, Mike Mayo, “Bender Family”, in American Murder: Criminals, Crime, and the Media, Canton, Miss.: Visible Ink Press, →ISBN, page 32, column 1:

(psychiatry) Suffering from hodophobia; pathologically afraid of travel.


immerser

(psychology) A person who tends to immerse themselves in things, becoming deeply involved.


thought pattern

en-noun

thought pattern (plural thought patterns)

(psychology) the way a person is used to thinking.


end-of-history illusion

(psychology) The psychological illusion by which people tend to believe that their personalities and preferences have reached a more or less stable state, despite recognising that these things have undergone significant change in the past.


taxometrics

(psychology) The analysis of psychiatric disorders which are typologically distinct from normal behavioral functioning.


counter-intention

(psychology) An intention that goes in the opposite direction from what one wants to happen.


quarter-life crisis

quarter-life crisis (plural quarter-life crises)

Local indie comedy Everyday Is Like Sunday has a fresh take on quarter-life crises. A scrappy but endearing low-budget feature about a trio of Toronto 20-somethings grappling with romantic woes and career uncertainties, the movie is populated by young people who are confused, conflicted and unfailingly sardonic.

2013 August 15, Jason Anderson, “Everyday is Like Sunday: Local indie comedy about conflicted young people is smart, energetic: Interview”, in Toronto Star:

(psychology) A situation resembling the mid-life crisis but taking place earlier, when roughly a quarter of one's adult life has passed, typically in one's twenties or thirties.


cuirassement

(pedology) The process in which cuirasse is formed.


monoideism

(psychology) The domination of a single idea, as in certain mental disorders


Morgan's canon

Proposed by the 19th-century British psychologist C. Lloyd Morgan.

(psychology, zoology) A fundamental precept of comparative animal psychology, stating that an animal's activity should not be interpreted in terms of higher psychological processes if it can be fairly interpreted in terms of simpler developmental processes.