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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) is a psychological condition...of PTSD include intrusive memories or thoughts about the event, efforts to avoid thinking...W. John. The DSM-IV Personality Disorders. New York: Guilford Press, 1995...
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Schizophrenia
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...baffling, and frustrating disorder. It is not particularly...Like all the psychotic disorders, schizophrenia was thought from the start to have...it as a "functional disorder." Early age of onset...schizophrenia, the disorder was central to the...schizophrenia and related disorders. ...
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Substance Abuse
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...numerous other psychiatric disorders, such as mood and anxiety disorders, sleep disorders, sexual dysfunction, delirium, dementia, amnestic disorder, and psychosis. Substances...origin. Native tobacco is thought to have been much more...
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Infantile Psychosis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...eating, and sphincter conduit disorders; and in rare cases delirium...Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric...psychoses are not listed as a disorder nosology, but rather placed...of "general developmental disorders" among which figures infantile...threefold ...
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psychosis
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing
...include schizophrenia, major disorders of affect (see bipolar affective disorder ), major paranoid states, and organic mental disorders. Psychotic disorders may...hallucinations, severe thought disturbances, abnormal alteration of mood, poverty of thought, and grossly abnormal ...
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Prozac
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...of depression and other psychological disorders. These drugs work by increasing the amount of serotonin, a neurotransmitter thought to be involved in the biochemical mechanism...depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder, it soon became common for physicians...Prozac for eating, anxiety, and panic ...
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Autistic Capsule/Nucleus
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...later showed a variety of disorders: "phobias, sleeping...some psycho-somatic disorders, some learning difficulties, some speech disorders, and some forms of delinquency...Winnicott (1965). Tustin thought that ultimately such autistic...
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Idea/Representation
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...means idea, conception, thought, and so on. It is the term...used to refer to "dream thoughts." It is useful to distinguish...1891b), he defined aphasic disorders from a structural perspective, as disorders of semantic systems and, consequently, as disorders of representational systems...
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Phobic Neurosis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...the heading "phobic anxiety disorders," appears in the World Health...of Mental and Behavioural Disorders , in International Classification...childhood and adolescent mental disorders, Roger Mis è s...marginal to the current of thought supporting neurotic structures...
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"Heredity and the Aetiology of the Neuroses"
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...article goes on to provide a complete exposition of Freud's thoughts on the sexual etiology of neuroses, and his theory of seduction...source the subject's sexual life, whether they lie in a disorder of his contemporary sexual life or in important events in...of unconscious ideation" (p. 151). The origin of the ...
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