Mental Health Glossary
  • 5-HIAA (5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid)

    A

  • Abreaction
  • abstract attitude (categorical attitude):
  • abulia
  • acculturation difficulty
  • acetylcholine
  • acting out
  • adrenergic
  • adrenergic system
  • affect
  • age-associated memory impairment (AAMI)
  • agitation (psychomotor agitation)
  • agnosia
  • agonist
  • agoraphobia
  • akathisia, neuroleptic-induced, acute
  • akinesia
  • alexia
  • alexithymia
  • algophobia
  • alienation
  • alloplastic
  • alogia
  • ambivalence
  • amentia
  • amimia
  • amines
  • amnesia
  • amok
  • amygdala
  • amyloid
  • anaclitic
  • analysis of variance (ANOVA)
  • anamnesis
  • anankastic personality
  • androgyny
  • anhedonia
  • anima
  • anomie
  • ANOVA (analysis of variance)
  • antagonist medication
  • anterograde amnesia
  • apathy
  • aphasia
  • aphonia
  • apperception
  • apraxia
  • assimilation
  • ataxia
  • attributable risk
  • auditory hallucination
  • aura
  • autoeroticism
  • automatism
  • autoplastic
  • avolition

    B

  • basal ganglia
  • bestiality
  • beta-blocker
  • bizarre delusion
  • blind spot
  • blocking
  • blunted affect
  • body image
  • bradykinesia
  • bruxism

    C

  • Capgras' syndrome
  • catalepsy
  • cataplexy
  • catatonic behavior
  • catharsis
  • cathexis
  • causalgia
  • cerea flexibilitas
  • circumstantiality
  • clanging
  • climacteric
  • comorbidity
  • compensation
  • competency
  • compulsion
  • conative
  • concordance
  • concrete thinking
  • condensation
  • confrontation
  • conservatorship
  • contingency reinforcement
  • control
  • control group
  • conversation symptom
  • coprophagi
  • correlation
  • counterphobia
  • countertransference

    D

  • delusion of control
  • delusion of reference
  • delusional jealousy
  • demand characteristics
  • dependent variable
  • depersonalization
  • derailment
  • derealization
  • dereistic
  • detachment
  • diminished capacity
  • diplopia
  • disconnection syndrome
  • discordance
  • disinhibition
  • disorientation
  • displacement
  • dissociation
  • distractibility
  • double-blind
  • drive
  • dyad
  • dysarthria
  • dyskinesia
  • dyslexia
  • dysphoric mood
  • dyssomnia
  • dystonia

    E

  • echolalia
  • echopraxia
  • ecological validity
  • ego
  • ego-dystonic
  • ego ideal
  • eidetic image
  • elaboration
  • elevated mood
  • engram
  • ethnology
  • euthymic mood
  • expansive mood
  • experimental design
  • experimenter bias
  • external validity
  • extinction
  • extraversion

    F

  • fantasy
  • flashback
  • flat affect
  • flight of ideas
  • flooding (implosion)
  • formal thought disorder
  • formication
  • fragmentation
  • free association
  • frotteurism
  • fusion

    G

  • gender dysphoria
  • gender identity
  • gender role
  • globus hystericus
  • glossolalia
  • grandiosity
  • gustatory hallucination

    H

  • hallucination
  • hedonism
  • heuristic
  • hippocampus
  • holding environment
  • hyperacusis
  • hypersomnia
  • hypnogogic
  • hypnopompic
  • hypomania

    I

  • id
  • idealization
  • ideas of reference
  • identification
  • idiot savant
  • illusion
  • imprinting
  • inappropriate affect
  • incidence
  • incoherence
  • independent variable
  • individuation
  • indoleamine
  • informed consent
  • inhibition
  • initial insomnia
  • insanity
  • insomnia
  • irritable mood
  • isolation

    K

  • Klinefelter's syndrome

    L

  • la bele indifference
  • labile affect
  • latent content
  • learned helplessness
  • lethologica
  • libido
  • living will
  • locus coeruleus
  • long-term memory
  • loosening of associations

    M

  • M’Naughten rule
  • macropsia
  • magical thinking
  • mania
  • manifest content
  • masochism
  • mean
  • median
  • memory consolidation
  • MHPG (3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol)
  • micropsia
  • middle insomnia
  • mirroring
  • mode
  • mood
  • mood-congruent psychotic features
  • mood-incongruent psychotic features

    N

  • negative symptoms
  • negativism
  • neurotic disorder
  • nihilistic delusion
  • nonparametric tests of significance
  • null hypothesis
  • nystagmus

    O

  • object relations
  • obsession
  • Oedipus complex
  • olfactory hallucination
  • ontogenetic
  • operant conditioning (instrumental conditioning)
  • operational definition
  • orientation
  • overcompensation
  • overdetermination
  • overvalued idea

    P

  • panic attacks
  • panic attacks - situationally bound
  • panic attacks - situationally predisposed
  • panic attacks - unexpected (uncued)
  • parameter
  • parametric study
  • parametric tests of significance
  • paranoia
  • paranoid ideation
  • paraphilias
  • parapraxis
  • parasomnia
  • paresis
  • paresthesias
  • pathognomonic
  • pedophilia
  • pellagra
  • period prevalence
  • persecutory delusion
  • perseveration
  • personality
  • phobia
  • phomological disorder
  • phrenology
  • placebo
  • placebo effect
  • plaques
  • pleasure principle
  • point prevalence
  • polyphagia
  • population
  • postural hypotension
  • poverty of speech
  • practice effects
  • preconscious
  • predictor variable
  • pregenital
  • pressured speech
  • prevalence
  • primary gain
  • primary process
  • prodrome
  • projection
  • projective identification
  • projective tests
  • pseudocyesis
  • pseudodementia
  • psychomotor agitation
  • psychomotor retardation
  • psychotic
  • psychotic disorder, shared
  • psychotominetic

    Q

  • Q-sort
  • quantitative variable

    R

  • randon sample
  • rationalization
  • reaction formation
  • reality principle
  • reality testing
  • reciprocal inhibition
  • regression
  • reinforcement
  • relative risk
  • reliability
  • repetition compulsion
  • repression
  • residual phase
  • resistance
  • respondent conditioning (classical conditioning, Pavlovian conditioning)
  • restricted or constricted affect
  • retardation, mental
  • retrograde amnesia

    S

  • screen memory
  • secondary gain
  • secondary process
  • selection bias
  • separation-individuation
  • sex
  • shaping
  • sick role
  • sign
  • signal anxiety
  • significance level
  • significant differences
  • sleep terror disorder
  • social adaptation
  • somatic delusion
  • somatic hallucination
  • splitting
  • standard deviation (SD)
  • statistical inference
  • stereotyped movements
  • Stockholm syndrome
  • stressor, psychosocial
  • structural theory
  • stupor
  • subconscious
  • sublimation
  • substitution
  • suggestibility
  • suggestion
  • superego
  • suppression
  • symbiosis
  • symbolization
  • symptom
  • syndrome
  • synesthesia
  • syntaxic mode
  • systematic desensitization

    T

  • tactile hallucination
  • tangentiality
  • tardive dyskinesia
  • temperament
  • terminal insomnia
  • termination
  • test of significance
  • testamentary capacity
  • theory
  • therapeutic community
  • therapeutic window
  • thought broadcasting
  • thought insertion
  • tic
  • tolerance
  • transference
  • transitional object
  • transsexualism
  • transvestism
  • type I error
  • type II error

    U

  • unconscious
  • undoing
  • urophilia

    V

  • variable
  • variance
  • verbigeration
  • visual hallucination
  • volunteer bias
  • voyeurism

    W

  • word salad

    Z

  • zeitgeist
  • zoophilia
  • zygosity
 
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