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neurosis in psychiatry, a broad category of psychological disturbance, encompassing various mild forms of mental disorder. Until fairly recently, the term neurosis was broadly employed in contrast with psychosis, which denoted much more severe, debilitating mental disturbances. The two terms were... Read more
psychosis psychosis
psychosis , in psychiatry , a broad category of mental disorder encompassing the most serious emotional disturbances, often rendering the individual incapable of staying in contact with reality. Until recently, the term was used in contrast with neurosis , which denoted the "mild" mental... Read more
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INFERIORITY, FEELING OF (INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY) As early as 1907 Alfred Adler considered the state of organic inferiority as a factor in neurosis before linking it to the newborn child's state of physiological immaturity. This state of inferiority is the source of the feeling of inferiority that... Read more
Reaction-Formation Reaction-Formation
REACTION-FORMATION "Reaction-formation" refers to an attitude or a character-trait that responds to an unconscious (repressed) wish or desire by evoking the opposite of such a desire. For example, generosity covers or conceals avariciousness and hoarding; modesty may replace megalomania;... Read more
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UNDOING The mechanism of undoing is characteristic of obsessional neurosis, along with isolation. It involves a process of "negative magic" that, according to Freud, tends to undo what has been done. When an action is undone by a second action, it is as if neither had occurred, whereas in reality... Read more
depression depression
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kleptomania [Gr.,=craze for stealing], irresistible compulsion to steal, motivated by neurotic impulse rather than material need. No specific cause is known. The condition is considered generally as the result of some underlying emotional disturbance rather than as a form of neurosis in itself.... Read more
Karen Horney Karen Horney
Karen Horney 1885-1952, American psychiatrist, b. Germany, M.D. Univ. of Berlin, 1913. She married Oscar Horney in 1909. Prior to her arrival (1932) in the United States, she was secretary of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, where she taught for 12 years. Associate director (1932-34) of the... Read more
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FRIGHT Fright, a state of sudden, extreme fear, is provoked either by a situation experienced as an external danger or by the feeling of a high probability of danger. Situations capable of causing fright are often associated with a risk of physical or mental death. The term fright appeared in the... Read more
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Essay review: Making shell-shock.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: British Journal of Psychology ...Shell-shock. A history of changing attitudes to war neurosis. By Anthony Babbington...85052 562 4. From shellshock to combat stress. A comparative history of military psychology...psychological impact of war. By Wendy Holden...

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