Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Indolamine
One of a group of biogenic amines, e.g., serotonin, that contains an indole ring and amine group within its chemical structure.
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Impulse disorders
A varied group of nonpsychotic disorders in which impulse control is weak. The impulsive behavior is usually pleasurable, irresistible, and ego-syn- tonic. Impulse disorders listed in DSM-III-R include pathological gambling, kleptomania, pyromania, intermittent explosive disorder, and trichotillomania.
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ID
In Freudian theory, the part of the personality that is the unconscious source of unstructured desires and drives.
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Hospital and community psychiatry
An interdisciplinary monthly journal of the American Psychiatric Association.
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Homey, Karen (1883-1952)
German psychoanalyst who emigrated to the United States in 1932, departed from orthodox Freudian thought and founded her own school, emphasizing cultural factors underlying the neuroses.
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Homosexuality, ego-dystonic
A sustained pattern of overt homosexual arousal which is a source of distress, since the person involved wishes to acquire or increase arousal patterns that allow heterosexual relations to be initiated or maintained. The term has been removed as a diagnostic entity in DSM-lIl-R. A disorder of people who are persistently dissatisfied with their homosexuality…
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Health and human services
A federal department established in 1953 as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to supervise and coordinate the following agencies: Food and Drug Administration, Office of Human Development, Public Health Service, Social Security Administration, Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, National Institutes of Health, Center for Disease Control, Health Care Financing Ad- ministration,…
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Fugue
Personality dissociation characterized by amnesia and involving actual physical flight from the customary environment or field of conflict. A memory loss characterized by an actual physical departure from the stress-producing situation. The person may wander aimlessly and may manifest symptoms of amnesia. A condition in which someone loses his or her memory and leaves home.…
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Founder of psycho- analysis. Most of the basic concepts of dynamic psychiatry are derived from his theories. Pioneer in the development of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Freud was born in what is now Pribor in the Czech Republic. He entered the University of Vienna in 1873 as a medical student, with growing interests in science and…
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Freud, Anna (1895-1982)
Austrian psychoanalyst and daughter of Sigmund Freud, noted for her contributions to the developmental theory of psychoanalysis and its applications to preventive work with children.
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