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psychosis   severe mental disorder in which the patient either withdraws from reality into an inner world of disorganized thinking and feeling, or cannot function in basic ways due to severe inpairment of mood  
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psychosomatic   pertaining to interrelationship of mind and body; psychosomatic illness are precipitated by emotional factors  
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reality testing   the ability to perceive fact from fantasy; severe impairment in this area results in psychoses  
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repression   a defense mechanism by which unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and impulses are pushed into the unconscious  
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schizophrenia   a psychosis characterized by withdrawal from reality into an inner world of disorganized thinking and conflict; can involve hallucinations and delusional thinking  
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senile dementia   dementia occurring after the age 65  
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somatoform disorders   disorders in which the patient has physical symptoms that cannot be explained by any actual physical disorder  
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superego   internalized conscience and moral part of the personality  
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tolerance   the development of insensitivity to a drug. increasing doses of a drug are required to produce the desired effect. insensitivity or decreased sensitivity  
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transference   process in which the patient relates to the therapist as he or she had to a prominent shildhood figure  
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