Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Kliiver-Bucy syndrome
A syndrome following bilateral temporal lobe removal consisting of loss of recognition of people, loss of fear, rage reactions, hypersexuality, excessive oral behavior, memory defect, and overreaction to visual stimuli.
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Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
Swiss pspchoanalyst; founder of the school of analytic pspchology. Swiss psychologist born in Kesswil, the son of a pastor of the Swiss Reform Church. Jung studied at both the universities of Basel and Zurich, receiving his degree in 1902, and had a background in biology, zoology, paleontology, and archaeology. He eventually formulated a psychological system…
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Jones, Ernest (1879-1958)
English psychoanalyst, an early pupil of Freud and his principal biographer, who introduced psychoanalpsis to the English-speaking world.
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Joint commission on mental illness and health
A multidisciplinary agency, incorporated in 1956 and representing 36 national agencies in the mental health and welfare fields. It conducted a five-year study of the mental health needs of the nation between 1956 and 1961 as authorized by the U.S. Congress in the Mental Health Study Act of 1955. The final report of the Joint…
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Joint commission on mental health of children
A multidisciplinary agency authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1965 (PL 89-97) and established in 1966 to study and report on the nation’s “resources, methods, and practices for diagnosing or preventing emotional illness in children and of treating, caring for, and rehabilitating children with emotional illness.” Its final report, “Crisis in Child Mental Health: Challenge…
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Joint commission on accreditation of hospitals (JCAH)
The agency that surveys and accredits hospitals and some other health facilities and programs as fulfilling their standards. A private, non-profit organization whose purpose is to encourage the attainment of uniformly high standards of institutional medical care. Comprised of representatives of the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, American College of Physicians, and American College…
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Janet, Pierre (1859-1947)
French psychiatrist who formulated theories of hysterical conversion and dissociative conditions based on constitutional factors rather than psychodynamic ones. First to use the term la belle indijference.
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Isonome
A signal or pathway in the brain that has similar effects on several different agencies.
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Involutional melancholia
A term formerly used to describe an agitated depression in a person of climacteric age. Currently, such patients are not distinguished from depressed patients of other age groups. An outdated term referring to a depressive psychotic reaction characterized by depression, agitation, and apprehension. A depression which occurs in people, mainly women, after middle age, probably…
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International classification of diseases (ICD)
The official list of disease categories issued by the World Health Organization; subscribed to by all member nations, who may assign their own terms to each ICD category. ICDA (International Classification of Diseases, adapted for use in the United States and prepared by the U.S. Public Health Service) represents the official list of diagnostic terms…
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