Category: P
-
Psychological deficit
The term used to describe performance and other psychological processes that are below those of what is considered normal.
-
Psychological assessment
Psychometric and other personality and behavior assessment data used in the diagnosis of mental and emotional disorders.
-
Psychological approaches to treating alcoholism
Techniques associated with the intrapsychic and interpersonal relationships. Advocates believe that the alcoholic needs the guidance and counseling of professionally trained psychotherapists.
-
Psychological anxiety
The symptoms of anxiety that involve a mood of depression and apprehension, somatic anxiety.
-
Psychological alcohol tolerance
Characterized by an experienced drinker recognizing the symptoms of intoxication and consciously controls them. The ability of a person to assume masculine or feminine roles without difficulty, self-consciousness, or embarrassment. Reflects the concept that genders do not occupy opposite ends of a single dimension but are two independent dimensions on which any person may be…
-
Psychogenic scock
Fainting as a result of transient generalized vasodilation in response to a sudden emotional stimulus.
-
Psychogenic regional pain (PRP)
A pain signal remotely localized in a field of mental perception or remote localization.
-
Psychogenic psychosomatic disorders
Structural and functional disorders resulting from emotional origins.
-
Psychogenic illness
An illness resulting from emotional or psychological factors, psychosomatic disorders; psychophysiologic disorders.
-
Psychogenic fugue
A dissociative disorder in which a person experiences amnesia, relocates to a location, and assumes a new identity. Sudden, unexpected travel away from one’s home or place of work with inability to recall one’s past. The individual may assume a partial or complete new identity. The condition is not due to organic brain disease. It…