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Affect: External expression of emotion; emotional response.
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Agoraphobia: Fear of leaving home or leaving a safe place.
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Amnesia: Loss of memory.
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Amphetamines: Central nervous system stimulants.
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Anorexia nervosa: Eating disorder of excessive dieting and refusal to maintain a normal body weight.
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Antisocial personality: Characterized by lack of loyalty or concern for others and lack of moral standards.
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Anxiety disorders: Characterized by unpleasant tensions, distress, and avoidance behavior; examples are phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic distress disorder.
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Anxiolytic: Drug that relieves anxiety and produces a relaxing effect.
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Apathy: Absence of emotions; lack of interest or emotional involvement.
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Asperger syndrome: A pervasive developmental disorder characterized by delays in socialization and communication skills; often considered a less severe type of autism.
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Atypical antipsychotics: Drugs used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other serious mental illnesses (psychoses).
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Autism: Severe lack of responsiveness to others, preoccupation with inner thoughts, withdrawal and retarded language development.
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Autistic thought: Preoccupation with self-centered, illogical ideas and fantasies that exclude the external world.
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Benzodiazepines: Drugs used to treat anxiety and panic attacks.
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Bipolar disorder: Mood disorder with alternating periods of mania and depression.
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Borderline personality: Instability in interpersonal relationships and sense of self; alternating involvement with and rejection of people.
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Bulimia nervosa: Eating disorder marked by binge eating followed by vomiting, purging (defecation), and depression.
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Cannabis: Active substance in marijuana; THC.
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Catatonic stupor: A type of schizophrenia marked by inability to move or react to the environment.
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Claustrophobia: Fear of closed-in places.
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Cognitive behavior therapy: Changing behavior patterns and responses by training and repetition and learning how thinking patterns cause symptoms, such as anger, anxiety and depression.
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Compulsion: Uncontrollable urge to perform an act repeatedly.
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Conversion disorder: A physical symptom appears with no organic basis and as a result of anxiety and inner conflict.
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Cyclothymia: Patient experiences alternating states of depression and exhilaration; mild form of bipolar disorder.
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Defense mechanism: Unconscious technique (coping mechanism) that a person uses to resolve or conceal conflicts and anxiety.
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Delirium: Confusion in thinking; faulty perceptions and irrational behavior.
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Delirium tremens: Confusion in thinking, anxiety, tremors, and sweating occurring with withdrawal from excessive and habitual use of alcohol.
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Delusion: Fixed, false belief that cannot be changed by logical reasoning or evidence.
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Dementia: Loss of higher mental functioning, including memory, judgment, and reasoning.
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Depression: Major mood disorder marked by chronic and excessive sadness, loss of energy, hopelessness, worry, and discouragement.
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Dissociative disorder: Chronic or sudden disturbance of memory, identity, or consciousness; examples are multiple-personality disorder and psychogenic amnesia.
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Dysphoria: Sadness, hopelessness, and depressive mood; feeling "low."
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Dysthymia: Depressive episodes, but not of the same intensity or duration as major depression.
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Ego: Central, coordinating branch of the personality.
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Electroconvulsive therapy: Electric current produces a convulsive seizure to treat mood disorders (depression or the depressive phase of bipolar disorder); used in patients who are resistant to drug therapy or when rapid response is needed.
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Euphoria: Exaggerated feeling of well-being; elevated mood, "high."
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Exhibitionism: Compulsive need to expose one's body, particularly the genitals, to an unsuspecting stranger.
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Family therapy: Treatment of an entire family to resolve and understand their conflicts and problems.
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Fetishism: Use of non-living objects, such as articles of clothing, as substitutes for a human sexual love object.
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Free association: Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient is encouraged to reveal thoughts one after another without censorship.
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Fugue: Flight from customary surroundings; dissociate disorder.
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Gender-identity disorder: Strong and persistent cross-gender identification with the opposite sex.
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Group therapy: Patients with similar problems gain insight into their personalities through discussion and interaction together.
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Hallucination: False or unreal sensory perception; hearing voices and seeing things.
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Hallucinogen: Substance that produces hallucinations.
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Histrionic personality: Highly emotional, immature, and dependent personality type with irrational outbursts, tantrums and flamboyant, theatrical behavior.
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Hypnosis: Induction of a trance-like state to consciousness in a patient to increase the pace of psychotherapy.
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Hypochondriasis: Exaggerated concern about one's health.
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Hypomania: Elevated excitement that is of lesser intensity than mania.
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Id: Major unconscious part of the personality; instinctual drives and desires.
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Insight-oriented therapy: Face to face discussion of life problems and feelings to increase understanding of thoughts and behavior patterns; psychodynamic therapy.
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Kleptomania: Strong impulse to steal, often with little actual desire for the stolen item.
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Labile: Unstable; undergoing rapid emotional change.
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Lithium: Drug used to treat the manic episodes in bipolar disorder.
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Mania: State of excessive excitability, hyperactive elation and agitation.
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Mental: Pertaining to the mind.
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Mood disorders: Prolonged emotion dominates a person's life; bipolar and depressive disorders.
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Mutism: Non-reactive state; stupor.
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Narcissistic personality: Characterized by grandiose sense of self-importance or preoccupation with fantasies of success or power; self-love without empathy for others.
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Neuroleptic drug: Antipsychotic drugs used to treat psychoses such as schizophrenia and severe depression; examples are atypical antipsychotics such as aripiprazole (Abilify) and olanzapine (Zyprexa).
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Neurosis: Repressed conflicts lead to mental symptoms such as anxiety and fears that disturb ability to function; less serious mental disorder than a psychosis.
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Obsession: An involuntary, persistent idea or emotion.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Anxiety disorder involving recurrent thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive actions (compulsions) that dominate a patient's life.
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Opioid: Drug derived from opium. Examples are cocaine, morphine, and heroin.
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Paranoia: Overly suspicious system of thinking with fixed delusions that one is being harassed, persecuted or unfairly treated.
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Paranoid personality: Characterized by recurrent delusions of persecution and jealousy with suspicion and mistrust of other people; quick to take offense.
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Paraphilia: Recurrent, intense sexual urge; fantasy or behavior that involves unusual objects, activities and situations.
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Pedophilia: Need for sexual gratification with a child.
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Personality disorder: Established, lifelong pattern marked by inflexibility and impairment of social functioning.
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Phenothiazines: Drugs used to treat serious mental illnesses or psychoses. They modify psychotic symptoms (delusions and hallucinations) and behavior.
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Phobia: Irrational fear of an object or an situation; claustrophobia (closed spaces), agoraphobia (leaving home or a safe place) and acrophobia (heights) are examples.
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Play therapy: A child, through play, uses toys to express conflicts and feelings that he or she is unable to communicate in a direct manner.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder: Anxiety disorder that follows a traumatic incident; symptoms such as intense fear, helplessness, insomnia, nightmares and less responsiveness to the external world.
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Projective test: Diagnostic personality test using unstructured stimuli (inkblots, pictures, incomplete sentences) to evoke responses that reflect aspects of an individual's personality.
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Psychiatrist: Physician who treats the mind and mental disorders.
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Psychiatry: Treatment of the mind and mental disorders.
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Psychoanalysis: Form of psychotherapy in which the patient explores his or her unconscious emotions and past to understand and change current behavior and feelings.
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Psychodrama: A group therapy in which a patient expresses feelings by acting out roles with other patients.
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Psychogenic: Pertaining to produced within the mind, having emotional and psychologic origin, rather than a physical cause.
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Psychologist: Individual (Ph.D or Ed.D) specializing in mental processes and how the brain functions in health and disease; treats patients with psychotherapy, but cannot prescribe drugs.
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Psychopharmacology: Treatment of psychiatric disorders with drugs.
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Psychosis: Loss of contact with reality; often with delusions and hallucinations.
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Psychosomatic: Pertaining to the inter-relationship of the mind (psych/o) and body (somat/o).
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Psychotherapy: Treatment of the mind.
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Pyromania: Strong impulse (obsessive urge) to set objects on fire.
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Reality testing: Ability to perceive fact from fantasy.
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Repression: Defense mechanism by which unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and impulses are automatically pushed into the unconscious.
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Schizoid personality: Emotionally cold and aloof, as if split off from other people; indifferent to praise or criticism or to the feelings of others.
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Schizophrenia: Psychosis marked by withdrawal from reality into an inner world of disorganized thinking and conflict.
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Sedatives: Drugs that lessen anxiety.
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Sexual disorders: Conditions involving sexual use of nonhuman objects and acts involving suffering, humiliation, and non-consenting partners. Disorders also include sexual dysfunctions such as inhibition of sexual desire or changes in sexual responses.
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Sexual masochism: Sexual gratification gained by being mutilated, beaten, or bound or otherwise made to suffer by another person.
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Sexual sadism: Sexual gratification gained by inflicting physical or psychologic pain or harm on others.
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Somatoform disorders: Conditions in which the patient has physical or bodily symptoms that cannot be explained by any actual physical illness.
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Substance-related disorders: Regular overuse of psychoactive substances (alcohol, amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, opioids, sedatives), which can affect the central nervous system.
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Superego: Internalized conscious and judgmental and moral part of the mind.
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Supportive psychotherapy: Treatment that involves offering encouragement, support, and hope to patients facing difficult life transitions and events.
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Tolerance: Development of insensitivity to a drug; increasing doses of a drug are needed to produce a desired effect.
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Transference: Process by which a patient relates to a therapist as though the therapist were a prominent childhood figure.
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Transvestic fetishism: Cross-dressing by a male in women's attire.
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Tricyclic antidepressants: Group of drugs used to treat severe depression.
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Voyerism: Abnormal desire to look at sexual organs or watch sexual acts.
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Xenophobia: Fear of strangers.
