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(archaic) The study or treatment of mental disorders; psychiatry.
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(psychoanalysis) The choice of an object of libidinal attachment on the basis of a resemblance to early childhood protective and parental figures.
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(psychology) In Freudian theory, the relation between bodily functions in early childhood and the later development of the sexual instinct. The infant's bodily function of simple hunger, to take a primary example, is at first attached solely to the act of suckling at mother's breast.
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(pathology, epidemiology, statistics) A percentage derived by the division of the number of fatalities by the number of confirmed (diagnosed) cases (sufferers) of a disease.
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(psychology) A therapeutic technique to relieve tension by re-establishing the association of an emotion with the memory or idea of the event that first caused it, and then eliminating it by complete expression (called the abreaction).
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(psychology) A learning process in which a previously neutral stimulus (such as a bell) is paired with a potent stimulus (such as food in the case of a dog), so that the neutral stimulus comes to elicit a conditioned response (salivation) similar to the one elicited by the potent stimulus.
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A person in such a relationship
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(uncountable, medicine, psychology) An inability to generalize or perform abstraction accompanied by excessive concentration on specific details, as in a mental disorder or in cognition by children.
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(psychotherapy) The transference of a therapist's own unconscious feelings to his or her patient; unconscious or instinctive emotion felt towards the patient.
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(biology, historical) A theory stating that human conditions such as disease and savagery represent a reversion to an earlier evolutionary stage.
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The choice of an object of libidinal attachment on the basis of dissimilarity from early childhood protective and parental figures.
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(psychotherapy) The process by which erotic feelings for someone are subconsciously shifted towards another.
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the act of romanticizing elements of something, like a culture, that is foreign to oneself
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(psychology) In Freudian psychology, an unconscious defense mechanism by which an individual "projects" his or her own internal characteristics onto the outside world or other people.
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(psychology) The projection of one's own psychic process to another person
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A technique in psychoanalysis in which the patient speaks for him- or herself, rather than repeating the ideas of the analyst.
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One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
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(of a a product) aimed at people with such an attitude
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Of or characteristic of something or someone rendered humanitarian.
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(psychology) The process whereby the ideas of another are unconsciously incorporated into one's own psyche.
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The theory of the psychological process whereby deliberate attempts to suppress certain thoughts make them more likely to surface.
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Alternative form of mentalization [(psychology) The ability to understand mental states that underlies the overt behaviour of oneself or others.]
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(psychiatry) An extreme form of mitmachen, where very slight pressure exerted on a body will cause a movement in any direction.
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(psychoanalysis) In Freudian theory, the complex of emotions aroused in a child by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex.
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(psychoanalysis) In Freudian psychoanalysis, the first stage of psychosexual development, during early infancy, when the mouth of the infant is his/her primary erogenous zone.
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The use of, or belief in, Pavlovian conditioning.
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(psychology) One who projects, or ascribes his/her own feelings to others.
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(transitive) To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind.
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(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.
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The formation or modification of one's identity.
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(education) The situation where adults help an autistic child to understand what went wrong in a prior social interaction.
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(intransitive) To behave as a misanthrope.
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(psychology) The process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another.
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Obsolete spelling of aestivate
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