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(psychoanalysis) The re-living of an experience with a view to purging its emotional dross.
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Emotional isolation or dissociation.
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Serving to annihilate; radically destructive.
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A process or action of antagonizing.
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(economics, agriculture) The consumption by oneself of the goods that one has produced.
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To bring from a state of savagery to an educated or refined state.
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(biology, neologism) The process of returning an extinct species back into the world.
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(psychology) reversal of cathexis; detachment of the libido from some external object
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(psychology) A stage of transactional analysis that consists in shedding light on repressed needs and feelings from an earlier child ego state.
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(psychology) The separation of an emotion or behavior-provoking verbal stimulus from the unwanted emotional or behavioral response as part of a therapeutic process. A neologism meant to indicate the reversal of thought-emotion-action fusion.
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(sociology) The process of social estrangement and progressive loosening of social bonds between an individual and their family and society as a result of long-term residence in an institution.
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Cessation or lack of identifying (with something).
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(psychology) The situation where antinormative behaviour is released in groups in which individuals are not seen or paid attention to as individuals; immersion in a group to the point at which the individual ceases to be seen as such.
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(psychiatry) A feeling of being unreal, detached or unable to feel emotion.
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(psychology) The psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal, and the patient has a sense of detachment from it.
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An art movement that involves destroying objects in front of spectators.
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(Freudian psychology) A destructive impulse, the opposite of libido.
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(transitive, sociology) Make explicit that which has been sublimated or obscured because it is not socially acceptable.
adj
That disassociates; that causes disassociation
adj
Relating to disidentification.
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(psychology) A defence mechanism where certain thoughts or mental processes are compartmentalised in order to avoid emotional stress to the conscious mind.
adj
Relating to or exhibiting dissociation.
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(theater, literature) According to Bertold Brecht, performance in such a way that the audience is hindered from simply identifying itself with the characters in the play, and must evaluate their actions on an overt, conscious level.
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Serving or tending to emasculate.
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The conversion of something into an extreme form
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(figuratively) Leading to new ideas or innovation.
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(public health) A range of public health policies designed to lessen the negative social or physical consequences associated with various human behaviors, both legal and illegal.
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The psychological process of dealing with a problem or problems.
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(psychology) A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
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To cause to appear strange.
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The tendency for individuals or societies to withdraw attention from traumatic past experiences or future threats with major consequences but low probability.
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(rare) Synonym of exacerbation
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(therapy) A therapeutic technique in which the client is encouraged to consider possible alternate causes for events
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(psychology, psychiatry) The regaining of the sense of self regarding one's mind or body; the cessation of depersonalization.
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(psychology) According to some psychoanalytic theories, the mental ability to delete and forget a trauma or overwhelming event.
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(psychology) An interruption of the continuity of association-complexes which leads to a breaking up of the personality.
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(idiomatic) The alienation of certain people from society to the point of being forgotten, excluded, or ignored in society.
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(transitive) To refine; to spin into niceties.
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(psychology) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
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(obsolete, transitive) To render not sacred; to deprive of sanctity.
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To deprive of sainthood.
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To deprive of soul, spirit, or principle.
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(psychology) Reinforcement that occurs when you imitate the behavior of someone who has been reinforced for that behavior, as when avoiding hot water having seen another person burned by it.
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