Category: G

The fear of old people and aging.  

The study of senescence or aging. The specialized branch of medicine concerned with the scientific study of the aging process, clinical, biological, and social, and the problems that aging reveals. The study of the process of ageing and the diseases of old people. Scientific study of aging or of old age. The study of the…

Also called geropsychiatry; an American board of psychiatry and neurology (ABPN) subspecialty of psychiatry that focuses on the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of mental and emotional disorders in the elderly, as well as improvement of psychiatric care for healthy and ill elderly people. A branch of psychiatry concerned with the psychological aspects of the…

The final phase of psychosexual development, as conceived by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), and the psychic characteristics of this phase. The genital phase begins at the onset of puberty. The integration of object love with genital sexuality is a primary developmental attainment of this phase. In psychoanalytic theory, the fifth stage in a person’s development, occurring…

A psychoanalytic metapsychological hypothesis that is concerned with the origin and development of psychic phenomena in terms of how the past is contained in the present and why an individual adopts certain conflicts and adaptations.  

A deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequence that is associated with the presence of or vulnerability to a disease. More often than not, the abnormality is not the gene actually responsible for the disorder but a DNA segment that remains physically close to the responsible gene and thus signals the presence of that gene. An observable trait…

Inherited traits, potentials, and capacities.