Chapter 23 medterm
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| mental disorder | disturbances of emotional stability, as manifested in maladaptive behavior and impaired functioning.
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| psychology | the study of behavior and the processes of the mind as they relate to the individual's social and physical enviornment.
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| psychologist | A professional who specializes in the study of the structure and function of the brain and related mental processes.
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| compensation | an effort to overcome, or make up for, real or imagined inadequacies.
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| denial | a refusal to admit or acknowledge the reality of something, thus avoiding emotional conflict or anxiety.
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| displacement | the process of transferring a feeling or emotion from the original idea or object to a substitute idea or object.
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| projection | the act of transferring one's own unacceptable thoughts or feelings to someone else.
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| repression | involuntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's own conscious mind.
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| supression | the voluntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's own mind.
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| affect | observable evidence of a person's feelings or emotions
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| amnesia | loss of memory caused by severe emotional trauma, brain injury, substance abuse, or reaction to medications or toxins.
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| anorexia nervosa | a disorder characterized by an emotional disturbance concerning body image; prolonged refusal to eat followed by extreme weight loss, and a lingering fear of becoming obese.
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| anxiety disorders | disorders characterized by chronic worry.
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| apathy | absence or suppression of observable emotion, feeling, concern, or passion.
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| compulsions | irresistible, repetative, irrational impulses to perform an act.
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| delirium | a state of frenzied excitement or wild enthusiasm.
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| delusion | a persistent abnormal belief or perception is firmly held by a person despite evidence to the contrary.
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| euphoria | a sense of well-being or elation.
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| exhibitionism | a sexual disorder involving the exposure of one's genitals to a stranger.
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| frotteurism | a sexual disorder in which the person gains sexual stimulationor excitement by rubbing against a nonconsenting person.
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| hallucination | a subjective perception of something that does not exist in the external enviornment
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| malingeing | a willful and deliberate faking of symptoms of a disease or injury to gain some consciously desired end.
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| mutism | inability to speak
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| obsession | a persistent thought or idea with which the mind is continually and involuntarily preoccupied.
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| paraphilia | sexual perversion or deviation; a condition in which the sexual instinct is expressed in ways that are socially prohibited, unacceptable, or biologically undesirable.
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| pedophillia | a sexual disorder in which the individual is sexually aroused and engages in sexual activity with children.
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| phobia | an anxiety dsorder characterized by an obsessive, irrational, and intense fear of a specific object, activity, or physical situation.
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| schizophrenia | any of a large group of psychotic disorders characerized by a gross distortion of reality, disturbances of language and communitcation, and withdrawal from social interaction.
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| tolerance | the ability to endure unusually large doses of a drug without apparent adverse effects.
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| cata- | down, under, against, lower
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| hypn/o | sleep
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| -mania | a mental disorder; madness
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| ment/o | mind
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| neur/o | nerves
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| phil/o | attraction to
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| -phobia | abnormal fear
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| -phoria | emotional state
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| psych/o | mind
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| schiz/o | split, divided
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| somat/o | body
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| -thymia | condition of the mind or will
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| ADD | attention deficit-disorder
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| ADHD | attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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| CA | chronological age
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| CNS | central nervous system
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| IQ | intelligence quotient
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| MA | mental age
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| OCD | obsessive-compulsive disorder
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