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Hermann Rorschach
Hermann Rorschach Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922) was the developer of the inkblot personality test commonly known as the Rorschach test. The ten inkblot cards designed by Rorschach in the early twentieth century have continued to be used by mental health professionals as one of... Read more |
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Paraphrenia
PARAPHRENIA German psychiatrists in the 19th century employed the term paraphrenia, derived from the Greek para (beyond) and phr 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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R D Laing
R. D. Laing (Ronald David Laing) , 1927-89, British psychiatrist. After studying at Univ. of Glasgow (M.D., 1951), he taught there (1953-56), later moving to the Tavistock Clinic and Institute of Human Relations (1956-89) to conduct research on schizophrenia. He directed the Langham Clinic in... Read more |
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Alvin F. Poussaint
Alvin F. Poussaint1934— Psychiatrist, educator, writer Alvin F. Poussaint is a psychiatrist and Harvard academic who is often consulted as an expert on a wide range of issues involving the black community. He has written extensively in books, academic journals, and popular magazines on... Read more |
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Swiss-born American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (born 1926) has pioneered the idea of providing psychological counseling to the dying. In her bestselling 1969 book, On Death and Dying, she describes the five mental stages that are experienced by those... Read more |
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libido
libido [Lat.,=lust], psychoanalytic term used by Sigmund Freud to identify instinctive energy with the sex instinct. For Freud, libido is the generalized sexual energy of which conscious activity is the expression. C. G. Jung used the term synonymously with instinctive energy in general. Many... Read more |
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John Bowlby
John Bowlby 1907-1990 British psychiatrist who discovered insights into the mother-child bond. John Bowlby's pioneering work on the relationship between mothers and children was instrumental in shaping child psychology in the twentieth century. His research focusing on the mother-child... Read more |
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Cryptomnesia
CRYPTOMNESIA Cryptomnesia is a memory that has been forgotten and then returns without being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original. In general, the memory returns in the form of an idea or intuition, but reappearances in the form of actions have also been... Read more |
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hysteria
hysteria , in psychology, a disorder commonly known today as conversion disorder, in which a psychological conflict is converted into a bodily disturbance. It is distinguished from hypochondria by the fact that its sufferers do not generally confuse their condition with real, physical disease.... Read more |
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In memoriam: Kurt Alfred Adler, M.D. (1905-1997)
Kurt Alfred Adler, M.D. (1905-1997...1905, he was the son of Alfred Adler who died in 1937...World War II, he served as psychiatrist in the United States Army...medical director at the Alfred ... |