(psychiatry) the display of previously inhibited emotions (often in actions rather than words); considered to be healthy and therapeut…
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Acute schizophrenic episode
schizophrenia of abrupt onset and relatively short duration (a few weeks or months)
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(psychiatry) a psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciated
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic ba…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations — one good and one bad
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.
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A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: schizophrenia, abrupt, onset, relatively, short.Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: schizophrenia, abrupt, onset, relatively, short.schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophrenia
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: schizophrenia, abrupt, onset, relatively, short.An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a regi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: schizophrenia, abrupt, onset, relatively, short.a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: schizophrenia, abrupt, onset, relatively, short.a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: schizophrenia, abrupt, onset, relatively, short.a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: schizophrenia, abrupt, onset, relatively, short.A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: schizophrenia, abrupt, onset, relatively, short.continuing in time or space without interruption; "a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: schizophrenia, abrupt, onset, relatively, short.A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: schizophrenia, abrupt, onset, relatively, short.a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and biz…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: schizophrenia, abrupt, onset, relatively, short.a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and biz…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: schizophrenia, abrupt, onset, relatively, short.
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