Month: August 2020
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Schizotypal
The essential features are various oddities of thinking, perception, communication, and behavior not severe enough to meet the criteria for schizophrenia. No single feature is invariably present. The disturbance in thinking may be expressed as magical thinking, ideas of reference, or paranoid ideation. Perceptual disturbances may include recurrent illusions, depersonalization, or derealization. Often there are…
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Schizoid
Manifested by shyness, oversensitivity, social withdrawal, frequent daydreaming, avoidance of close or competitive relationships and eccentricity. Persons with this disorder often react to disturbing experiences with apparent detachment and are unable to express hostility and ordinary aggressive feelings. Severely introverted; socially isolated; lacking close personal relationships or the ability to form them.
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Passive-aggressive
Aggressive behavior manifested in passive ways such as obstructionism, pouting, procrastination, intentional inefficiency, and obstinacy. The aggression often arises from resentment at failing to find gratification in a relationship with an individual or institution upon which the individual is overdependent.
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Narcissistic
Grandiose sense of self-importance or uniqueness; preoccupation with fantasies of limitless success; need for constant attention and admiration; and disturbances in interpersonal relationships such as lack of empathy, exploitativeness, and relationships that vacillate between the extremes of overidealization and devaluation. In reference to a personality disorder characterized by an individual’s inflated perception of their own…
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Histrionic
Excitability, emotional instability, over- reactivity, and attention-seeking and often seductive self-dramatization, whether or not the person is aware of its purpose. People with this disorder are immature, self-centered, vain, and unusually dependent. Sometimes referred to as hysterical personality. Relating to being very dramatic or excessive in behavior.
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Borderline
A disorder that includes, in interpersonal relationships, inappropriate, intense, uncontrolled anger; identity disturbance; instability of affect; intolerance of being alone; physically self-damaging acts; and feelings of emptiness. Not clearly belonging to either one of two categories. Referring to a medical condition likely to develop in someone unless an effort is made to prevent it. Characterized…
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Antisocial
A lack of socialization along with behavior patterns that bring a person repeatedly into conflict with society; incapacity for significant loyalty to others or to social values; callousness; irresponsibility; impulsiveness; and inability to feel guilt or learn from experience or punishment. Frustration tolerance is low and such people tend to blame others or give, plausible…
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Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich (1849-1936)
Russian neuro-physiologist noted for his research on conditioning. Awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine (1904) for his work on the physiology of digestion.
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Orthomolecular treatment (megavitamin therapy)
An approach based on the assumption that “for every twisted mind there is a twisted molecule” and that in some way psychiatric illness, and perhaps other illnesses, are due to biochemical abnormalities, resulting in increased needs for specific substances, such as vitamins. This treatment is of unknown and unproved efficacy. An unorthodox method of treatment…
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Original thirteen
The thirteen founding fathers of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, 1844-1891, and The American Medico-Psychological Association, 1892-1919.