Psychology page 2
a condition of extreme excitement characterized by emotional disturbance, sensory and motor derangement and sometimes the simulation of organic disorders. — hysterie, n. — hysteric, hysterical, adj.
1. the process of inducing hysteria.
2. the onset of hysteria. — hysterogenic, adj.
the condition of one who is not a child acting abnormally childlike. — infantility, n. — infantilistic, adj.
the belief that psychology must be derived from introspective data. — introspectionist, n. — introspective, adj.
psychotherapy that tries to find for the patient the aim and meaning of his own life as a human being and does not stress the medical aspect of mental health.
1. a speculation dealing systematically with concepts extending beyond the present limits of psychology as an empirical science.
2. a conception in psychoanalytic theory of mental processes involving causal relations, structural placement, and functional value. — metapsychological, adj.
any of a large variety of mental or psychic disorders, exhibiting a range of mental or physical symptoms, as anxiety, phobias, compulsions, and tics. — neurotic, n., adj.
a neurotic condition; psychoneurosis.
the process of correcting bodily or mental distortion. — orthotic, adj.