Month: August 2020
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Watson, John B. (1878-1958)
American psychologist; the founder of the behaviorism school of psychology.
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Wagner von Jauregg, Julius (1857-1940)
Austrian psychiatrist who won the Nobel Prize in 1927 for research in using malaria inoculation and other artificially induced fevers in treating syphilis of the central nervous system.
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Unipolar psychoses
Recurrent major depressions.
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Tuke, William (1732-1822)
English Quaker layman who pioneered in treating psychiatric patients without using physical restraints.
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Transsexual
A disturbance of gender identify in which the person feels a life-long discomfort with his or her own sex and a compelling desire to be of the opposite sex. A person who feels trapped in the body of the wrong gender. Some have reversed core gender identities, transsexualism. Feeling uncomfortable with the birth gender. An…
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Tarasoff decision
A California court decision which essentially imposes a duty on the therapist to warn the appropriate person or persons when he becomes aware that his patient may present a risk of harm to a specific person or persons.
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Sullivan, Harry Stack (1892-1949)
American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst known for his research in the psychotherapy of schizophrenia and for his view of complex interpersonal relationships as the basis of personality development.
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Social worker, psychiatric
A skilled professional, usually with a M.S.W., trained in social work who works with psychiatrists usually in an institutional setting. Psychiatric social workers also carry out individual, family, and group psychotherapy.
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Social adaption
The ability to live and express oneself according to society’s restrictions and cultural demands.
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Skinner, Burrhus Frederic (1904)
American psychologist noted for his research and writings on operant conditioning. Many of the procedures of behavior therapy are based on laboratory research by Skinner and his students.