Category: T
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Trazodone
An atypical antidepressant medication (characterized as a serotonin antagonist and reuptake inhibitor [sari]) indicated for the treatment of depression but today used mainly to treat insomnia. Although available only as generic, it may still be known by the discontinued brand name desyrel. An antidepressant drug which has a strong sedative effect, used in the treatment…
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
A form of acquired brain injury, that occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. Symptoms of a TBI can be mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the extent and location of the damage. A person with a mild TBI may remain conscious or may experience a loss of consciousness for a few…
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Tranylcypromine
A nonselective and irreversible monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant medication used principally to treat depression in patients who have failed to respond to more standard treatments. Marketed under the brand name parnate. An MAO inhibitor used as an antidepressant. Parnate is a commercial preparation. An antidepressant drug, one of the MAO inhibitors, given by mouth…
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Tranxene
Brand name for the benzodiazepine anxiolytic drug clorazepate. A commercial preparation of chlorazepate.
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Transvestism
Sexual pleasure derived from dressing or masquerading in the clothing of the opposite sex, with the strong wish to appear as a member of the opposite sex. The sexual origins of transvestism may be unconscious. A sexual variance characterized by emotional and/or sexual gratification derived from dressing in clothes of the opposite sex. It is…
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Transvestic fetishism
One of the paraphilias, characterized by marked distress over, or acting on, sexual urges involving crossdressing, most frequently in a heterosexual male. The condition may occur with gender dysphoria as part of a gender identity disorder, but more commonly the transvestite has no desire to change his sex but wants only, at a particular time,…
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Transphobia
The fear of transsexualism or of transgender people.
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Transitional object
An object, other than the mother, selected by an infant between ages 4 and 18 months for self-soothing and anxiety reduction. Examples are a “security blanket” or a toy that helps the infant go to sleep. The transitional object provides an opportunity to master external objects and promotes differentiation of the self from the outer…
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Transinstitutionalization
A term used to describe the shift of mentally ill individuals from the mental health care system into the criminal justice system. This phenomenon has also been described as “the criminalization of mentally disordered behavior.”
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Transference neurosis
In clinical psychoanalysis, the analysand’s reexperiencing of his or her characteristic intrapsychic conflicts and modes of defense, which are expressed in fantasies about the analyst. A phase of psychoanalysis in which the patient reacts to the analyst as if he or she were the patient’s parent. Such an event enables the analyst and patient to…