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English Quaker layman who pioneered in treating psychiatric patients without using physical restraints.  

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…

Anxiety-provoking dream occurring during REM sleep. Contrast with sleep terror disorder.  

American psychiatrist, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University; introduced the concept of psycho-biology.  

The behavior of persons who are not classifiable as antisocial personalities, but who are predatory and follow criminal pursuits. Formerly called sociopathic personalities.  

A pervasive developmental disorder caused by a physical disorder of the brain appearing during the first three years of life. Symptoms include disturbances in physical, social, and language skills; abnormal responses to sensations; and abnormal ways of relating to people, objects, and events. In psychology, absorption in fantasy to the exclusion of interest in reality.…

A DSM-lII-R category for a childhood disorder characterized by develop- mentally inappropriate short attention span, poor concentration, and frequent hyperactivity. A group of disorders associated in underachievement and low motivation and classified as (a) minimal brain dysfunction; (b) learning disability syndrome, (c) hyperactive child syndrome. A condition in which a person is unable to concentrate,…

Pharmacologic agents that ameliorate Parkinson-like symptoms. In psychiatry, these agents are used to combat the untoward Parkinson-like and extrappramidal effects that may be associated with treatment with phenothiazines and other antipsychotic drugs.  

The official monthly scientific publication of the American Psychiatric Association.  

A group of sixteen physicians (five from the American Psychiatric Association, four from the American Neurological Association, three from the Section Council on Psychiatry of the American Medical Association, two from the American Academy of Neurology, and two from the Section Council on Neurology of the American Medical Association). This group arranges, controls, and conducts…