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3/22, Psych pg 957
Psychatric terms
Term | Definition |
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SEDATIVES | Drugs that lessen anxiety |
SEXUAL DISORDERS | Paraphilias and sexual dysfunctions |
SEXUAL MASOCHISM | Sexual gratification is gained by being humiliated, beaten, bound or otherwise made to suffer by another person |
SEXUAL SADISM | Sexual gratification is gained by inflicting physical or psychological pain or humiliation on others |
SOMATOFORM DISORDERS | Presence of physical symptoms that cannot be explained by an actual physical disorder or other well-described mental disorder such as depression |
SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDER | Regular overuse of psychoactive substances (alcohol, amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, hallucinogens, opioids, and sedatives) that affect the central nervous system |
SUPEREGO | Internalized conscience and moral aspect of the personality |
SUPPORTIVE PYSCHOTHERAPY | Offering encouragement, support, and hope to patients facing difficult life transitions and events |
TOLERANCE | It is the declining effect of the drug so that the dose must be increases to give the same effect |
TRANSFERENCE | Psychoanalytic process in which the patient relates to the therapist as though the therapist were a prominent childhood figure |
TRANSVESTICE FETISHISM | Cross- dressing, wearing clothing of the opposite sex. This disorder has been described in heterosexual males who have intense sexually arousing fantasies, urges, involving cross-dressing |
TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANTS | Drugs used to treat severe depression, three ringed fused structure |
VOYEURISM | Sexual excitement is achieved by observing unsuspecting people who are naked, undressing, or engaging in sexual activity |
XENOPHOBIA | A fear (irrational) and often disabling from a stranger |