psych medterms

• ABREACTION


  Emotional release or discharge of recalling painful experiences
• ABSTINENCE


  Voluntary refraining from behavior or the use of the substance that has caused problems in psychosocial, biologic, cognitive, spiritual belief in life connected to alcohol, drugs, etc. that is addictive
• ADDICTION


  A state of dependence or recurrent drug intoxication, characterized by psychological and physical dependence as well as tolerance
• AGORAPHOBIA


  Fear of open spaces, anxiety of being in a place or situation in which escape may be difficult
• AKATHISIA


  Motor restlessness, inability to sit still
• AKINESIA


  Lack of physical movement
• AMBIVALENCE


  Co-existence of two opposing impulses towards the same thing in the same person at the same time
• AMNESIA


  Partial or total inability to recall past experience
• ANERGIA


  Lack of energy for day to day activities
• ANHEDONIA


  Loss of interest in and withdrawal from all regular and pleasurable activities
• ANOREXIA NERVOSA


  Eating disorder, characterized by self-starvation
• APATHY


  Lack of emotional feeling
• APHASIA


  Loss of language ability
• AVOLITION


  Lack of motivation or inabilities to initiate task
• BULIMIA NERVOSA


  Uncontrolled ingestion of large amount of food followed by inappropriate compensatory methods to prevent weight gain
• CATATONIA


  A state of psychologically induced immobilization at times interrupted by episodes of extreme agitation
• CIRCUMSTANTIALITY


  A disorder thinking process, determining tendency is maintained but the patient can reach the goal only after having exhaustively explored all unnecessary associations arising in his mind
• CLANG ASSOCIATION


  Meaningless rhyming of words. Rhyming is more important than the context
• CONFABULATION


  Unconscious filling of memory gaps by imagined or untrue experience due to memory impairment
• CONVERSION


  Psychological thoughts transferred to physical symptoms
• CRISIS


  A situation in which customary problem solving or decision making methods are not adequate
• DEFENCE MECHANISM


  Unconscious mental process that the ego uses to resolve conflicts which will help to ease anxiety and depression
• DELIRIUM


  Fixed false belief
• DEMENTIA


  Clouding of brain
• DENIAL


  Unconscious refusal to face thoughts, feelings, wishes, needs or reality factors that are consciously intolerable
• DEPERSONALIZATION


  A person's subjective sense of being unreal, strange or unfamiliar
• DEREALIZATION


  A subjective sense that the environment is strange or unreal
• DYSLEXIA


  Reading disorder
• DISSOCIATION


  The acts of separating and detaching a strong emotionally charged conflicts from one's consciousness
• ECHOLALIA


  Pathological repetition by imitation of the speech of another person
• ECHOPRAXIA


  Pathological repetition by imitation of the behavior of another
• FLIGHT OF IDEAS


  Rapid shift between topics that are unrelated to each other
• FUGUE


  Episodes of wandering away
• GRANDIOSITY


  A person's exaggerated conception of his/her importance
• GRIEF


  Appropriate emotional response to an external and consciously recognized loss
• HALLUCINATIONS


  A false perception
• HYPERKINETIC ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER


  Disorder common in children. Symptoms include inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity
• HYPOCHONDRIASIS


  Disorder characterized by preoccupation with the fear of developing a serious disease or the belief that one has a serious disease
• HYPOMANIA


  Distinct period of at least a few days of mild elevation of mood, sharpened and positive thinking and increased energy and activity level
• IDEAS OF REFERENCE


  Belief that some events have a special personal meaning