psychopathology
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1. the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders (noun.cognition)
| hypernym | : | medical specialty, medicine, |
| definition | : | the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | alienism, |
| definition | : | an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness (noun.cognition) |
| domain member category | : | echolalia, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia) (noun.act) |
| domain member category | : | resistance, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness (noun.attribute) |
| domain member category | : | paramnesia, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality (noun.cognition) |
| domain member category | : | autism, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as people (noun.cognition) |
| domain member category | : | confabulation, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered (noun.cognition) |
| domain member category | : | acting out, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) the display of previously inhibited emotions (often in actions rather than words); considered to be healthy and therapeutic (noun.communication) |
| domain member category | : | compensation, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors (noun.process) |
| domain member category | : | conversion, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis (noun.process) |
| domain member category | : | denial, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts (noun.process) |
| domain member category | : | displacement, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one (noun.process) |
| domain member category | : | idealisation, idealization, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad (noun.process) |
| domain member category | : | isolation, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it (noun.process) |
| domain member category | : | overcompensation, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite (noun.process) |
| domain member category | : | projection, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else (noun.process) |
| domain member category | : | rationalisation, rationalization, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening (noun.process) |
| domain member category | : | reaction formation, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them (noun.process) |
| domain member category | : | regression, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state (noun.process) |
| domain member category | : | repression, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious (noun.process) |
| domain member category | : | anorexia nervosa, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciated (noun.state) |
| domain member category | : | anxiety, anxiousness, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic (noun.state) |
| domain member category | : | major depressive episode, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction (noun.state) |
| domain member category | : | repress, suppress, |
| definition | : | put out of one's consciousness (verb.cognition) |
| domain member category | : | confabulate, |
| definition | : | unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory (verb.creation) |
| domain member category | : | expansive, |
| definition | : | marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur (adj.all) |
2. the branch of psychology concerned with abnormal behavior (noun.cognition)
3. the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders (noun.cognition)
| derivation | : | psychiatric, psychiatrical, |
| definition | : | relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry (adj.pert) |
4. the branch of psychology concerned with abnormal behavior (noun.cognition)
5. the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders (noun.cognition)
| derivation | : | psychiatric, psychiatrical, |
| definition | : | relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry (adj.pert) |
6. the branch of psychology concerned with abnormal behavior (noun.cognition)
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