{"id":25749,"date":"2020-07-03T06:42:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T06:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?p=25749"},"modified":"2023-09-08T10:32:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T10:32:23","slug":"ambivalence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/ambivalence\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambivalence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coexistence of contradictory emotions, attitudes, ideas, or desires with respect to a particular person, object, or situation. Ordinarily, the ambivalence is not fully conscious and suggests psychopathology\u00a0only when present in an extreme form.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Simultaneous attractions to and repulsion from an object, person, or situation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The condition of holding opposite feelings (such as love and hate) for the same person or object. Excessive and prevalent ambivalence was thought by Bleuler to be a feature of schizophrenia.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The psychological state in which a person concurrently hates and loves the same object or person.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Coexistence of contradictory feelings about an object, person, or idea.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"group w-full text-token-text-primary border-b border-black\/10 dark:border-gray-900\/50 bg-gray-50 dark:bg-[#444654]\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-73\">\n<div class=\"p-4 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 md:py-6 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 gap-4 text-base mx-auto md:gap-6 md:max-w-2xl lg:max-w-[38rem] xl:max-w-3xl }\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-[calc(100%-50px)] flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3 lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)]\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col gap-3 max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] flex flex-col items-start gap-3 overflow-x-auto whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">\n<p>The capacity to simultaneously harbor conflicting emotional states, such as love and hate, toward the same object or action.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coexistence of contradictory emotions, attitudes, ideas, or desires with respect to a particular person, object, or situation. 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