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For-profit hospitals
Hospitals owned and/or operated by physicians, other individuals, or a business corporation for the purpose of making a profit. Also called proprietary hospitals or investor-owned hospitals.
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Follow-up examination
Repeated clinical assessment following discharge after inpatient or outpatient treatment.
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Folic a deux
A condition in which two closely related persons, usually in the same family, share the same delusions. In DSM-III-R called induced psychotic disorder in recognition of the well known clinical fact that not all such instances involve shared delusions; they can also be manic, depressive, etc.
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Flagellation
A masochistic or sadistic act in which one or both participants derive stimulation, usually erotic, from whipping or being whipped. Action of whipping someone else or of being whipped for stimulation or sexual arousal. The act of whipping oneself or others as a means of obtaining sexual pleasure. A person displaying this sexual deviation is…
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Feeblemindedness
A mild degree of mental sub-normality, corresponding roughly to an intelligence quotient of 50-70. It is usually caused by an interaction of genetic and environmental factors, the nature of the psychological environment being of much importance.
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Explosive personality
A disorder of impulse control in which several episodes of serious outbursts of relatively unprovoked aggression lead to assault on others or the destruction of property. There is no organic, epileptic, or any other personality disorder that might account for the behavior. Also called intermittent explosive personality.
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Erikson, Erik H. (1902-)
German-born lay psychoanalyst and child psychoanalyst noted for his work on psychosocial development; author of major studies of Luther and Ghandi.
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Epileptic equivalent
Episodic, sensory, or motor phenomena which a person with epilepsy may experience instead of convulsive seizures.
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Electroconvulsive treatment (ECT)
Use of electric current to induce convulsive seizures. Most effective in the treatment of depression. Introduced by Cerletti and Bini in 1938. Modifications are electronarcosis, which produces sleep-like states, and electrostimulation, which avoids convulsions. Used with anesthetics and muscle relaxants.
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Ejaculatory incompetence (impotence)
Inability to reach orgasm and ejaculate during sexual intercourse despite adequacy of erection. Also referred to as retarded ejaculation, absence of ejaculation, ejaculatory impotence, and inhibited ejaculation is the inability to ejaculate even after sustained sexual stimulation through coitus. Primary ejaculatory incompetence refers to never having ejaculated inside a woman’s vagina. Secondary ejaculatory incompetence involves…
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