(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…
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(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
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(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, 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: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.A tendency to blame victims for their misfortune, so that one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way.; "Previous research…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, 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: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, 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: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, 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: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.
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(psychiatry) the display of previously inhibited emotions (often in actions rather than words); considered to be healthy and therapeut…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, unconscious, tries, reduce, anxiety.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciated
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, unconscious, tries, reduce, anxiety.Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heav…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, unconscious, tries, reduce, anxiety.an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheade…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, unconscious, tries, reduce, anxiety.Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in aquatic fowl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, unconscious, tries, reduce, anxiety.The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, unconscious, tries, reduce, anxiety.To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, unconscious, tries, reduce, anxiety.a feeling of aversion or antipathy; "my dislike of him was instinctive"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, unconscious, tries, reduce, anxiety.(psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, unconscious, tries, reduce, anxiety.Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrol…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, unconscious, tries, reduce, anxiety.To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, unconscious, tries, reduce, anxiety.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, unconscious, tries, reduce, anxiety.
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