Category: R
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Rebound effect
Paradoxical effect.
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Rebellion
Renunciation of, or opposition to, authority.
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Reasoning authority
A person who asserts that something is true with logical explanations or rationale, ct: dogmatic authority.
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Reasoning
The combining of old habits, knowledge, and concepts to solve a new problem. The making of judgments or drawing of conclusions based on evidence, education, experience, training, and/or personal biases.
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Rear entry
A coital position in which the female is penetrated by the male from behind her.
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Real self
The true or authentic core of one’s personality.
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Reality therapy (RT)
William Glasser’s method of psychotherapy that seeks to lead people to stop denying the real world and, instead, to accept responsibility for fulfilling their needs for self-esteem and for giving and receiving love. A psychiatric treatment based on the concept that some patients deny the reality of the world around them. Therapy is directed to…
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Reality assumptions
Assumptions that relate to the gratification of needs in light of environmental possibilities, limitations, and dangers.
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Reality-adaptive, supportive (RAS) therapy
A type of therapy that focuses on the client assuming a productive
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Realistic love
Conjugal love. A type of love that is calm and based on information and interaction with the partner over a number of years, romantic love.