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Obsession
Obsession BIBLIOGRAPHY The term obsession is used quite liberally in current popular vernacular to indicate an intense interest in or preoccupation with a subject. Despite the prevalence of this connotation, psychologists generally use the term to indicate a more severe disturbance in... Read more |
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder Definition Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is currently classified as an anxiety disorder marked by the recurrence of intrusive or disturbing thoughts, impulses, images or ideas (obsessions) accompanied by repeated attempts to suppress these... Read more |
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Clomipramine
Clomipramine Definition Clomipramine is an antidepressant drug used primarily to alleviate obsessions and compulsions in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Clomipramine is also used in the treatment of depressive disorders and in a number of other psychiatric ... Read more |
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bulimia
bulimia nervosa Eating disorder that takes the form of compulsive eating, then purging by induced vomiting or the use of a laxative or diuretic. Confined mainly to girls and women, the disorder most often results from an underlying psychological problem. An obsession with body image may be... Read more |
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Eels
EelsPop group A singer, songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer known simply as "E" is the man responsible for eels. A native of Virginia who later moved to Los Angeles, E was born Mark Oliver Everett on April 9, 1963. His first instrument was a drum kit. Music soon became an... Read more |
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Craigs Wife
Craig's Wife (1925), a drama by George Kelly. [Morosco Theatre, 360 perf.; Pulitzer Prize.] Harriet Craig ( Chrystal Herne) is a woman obsessed with her home and her possessions. She will not even allow her husband to smoke in the house, lest he stain or mar something. Luckily Walter Craig (... Read more |
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese , 1942-, American film director; b. Queens, N.Y. A major figure in contemporary cinema, he grew up in Manhattan's Little Italy, attended film school at New York Univ., made his first feature-length film in 1968, and scored his first success with Mean Streets (1973). Often dealing... Read more |
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Equus
Equus (1974). Peter Shaffer's 1973 London success, centering on a psychiatrist and his young male patient who is obsessed with horses, was produced by Kermit Bloomgarden and others at the Plymouth Theatre for a run of 1,209 performances. Anthony Hopkins was the original doctor and Peter Firth,... Read more |
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anxiety
anxiety anticipatory tension or vague dread persisting in the absence of a specific threat. In contrast to fear, which is a realistic reaction to actual danger, anxiety is generally related to an unconscious threat. Physiological symptoms of anxiety include increases in pulse rate and blood... Read more |
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Tricyclic antidepressants
Antidepressants, Tricyclic Definition Tricyclic antidepressants are medicines that relieve mental depression. Purpose Since their discovery in the 1950s, tricyclic antidepressants have been used to treat mental depression. Like other antidepressant drugs, they reduce symptoms such as extreme... Read more |
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