Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Wednesday Evening Society
A group of Freud’s fol- lowers and students who formed the basis of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.
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Watson, John B. (1878-1958)
American psychologist; the founder of the behaviorism school of psychology.
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Wagner von Jauregg, Julius (1857-1940)
Austrian psychiatrist who won the Nobel Prize in 1927 for research in using malaria inoculation and other artificially induced fevers in treating syphilis of the central nervous system.
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Unipolar psychoses
Recurrent major depressions.
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Tuke, William (1732-1822)
English Quaker layman who pioneered in treating psychiatric patients without using physical restraints.
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Transsexual
A disturbance of gender identify in which the person feels a life-long discomfort with his or her own sex and a compelling desire to be of the opposite sex. A person who feels trapped in the body of the wrong gender. Some have reversed core gender identities, transsexualism. Feeling uncomfortable with the birth gender. An…
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Tarasoff decision
A California court decision which essentially imposes a duty on the therapist to warn the appropriate person or persons when he becomes aware that his patient may present a risk of harm to a specific person or persons.
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Sullivan, Harry Stack (1892-1949)
American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst known for his research in the psychotherapy of schizophrenia and for his view of complex interpersonal relationships as the basis of personality development.
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Social worker, psychiatric
A skilled professional, usually with a M.S.W., trained in social work who works with psychiatrists usually in an institutional setting. Psychiatric social workers also carry out individual, family, and group psychotherapy.
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Social adaption
The ability to live and express oneself according to society’s restrictions and cultural demands.
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