psychological medicine

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psychological medicine - the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorderspsychiatry, psychopathologyecholalia - (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)resistance - (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awarenessparamnesia - (psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with realityautism - (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as peopleconfabulation - (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is rememberedmedical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniquesalienism - an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illnessmental hygiene, psychotherapeutics, psychotherapy - the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methodsacting out - (psychiatry) the display of previously inhibited emotions (often in actions rather than words); considered to be healthy and therapeuticcompensation - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviorsconversion - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basisdefence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense mechanism, defense reaction, defense - (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desiresdenial - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughtsdisplacement - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable oneidealisation, idealization - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one badintellectualisation, intellectualization - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflictisolation - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with itovercompensation - (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its oppositeprojection - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone elserationalisation, rationalization - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threateningreaction formation - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them; "his strict morality is just a reaction formation to hide his sexual drive"regression - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile staterepression - (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming consciousanorexia nervosa - (psychiatry) a psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciatedfolie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder, disturbance - (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illnessanxiety, anxiousness - (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panicmajor depressive episode - (psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunctionrepress, suppress - put out of one's consciousnesspsychoanalyse, psychoanalyze, analyse, analyze - subject to psychoanalytic treatment; "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"confabulate - unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory