Month: August 2020

A disorder characterized by an inhibition in sexual desire; sexual excitement, orgasm, premature ejaculation, dpspareunia, or vaginismus may also be present. In DSM-IIl-R, called sexual disorders to reflect more accurately the fact that a biogenic component is often present. Disorders in which normal sexual response is inhibited in some respect. A condition where the sexual…

Generalized physical and emotional over-activity in response to internal and/or external stimuli, as in hypomania. Disordered behavior characteristic of unipolar depressive patients. Disrupted physical and mental processes, characterized by restless behaviors such as fidgeting, hand wringing, and racing thoughts, represent common symptoms observed in individuals with major depressive disorder. These manifestations reflect the tumultuous nature…

In DSM-III-R called somatoform disorder; pain in which adequate physical findings are absent and in which there is evidence that psychological factors play a causal role. A disorder in which the person experiences intense and prolonged pain with no apparent organic cause.  

The biweekly newspaper of the American Psychiatric Association.  

American psychiatrist and neurologist known for his work on multiple personalities.  

In DSM-lII-R called primary degenerative dementia, presenile onset.  

French physician-reformer who pioneered in abolishing the use of restraints for the mentally ill.  

Swiss psychologist noted for his theoretical concepts of and research on the mental development of children.  

A group of psychotropic drugs that, chemically, have in common a phenothiazine configuration but differ from one another through variations in other components of the molecule. As a group of drugs, the phenothiazines are also known as antipsychotic drugs or neuroleptics.