psychological disorder

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• psychological disorder — noun (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness • Syn: ↑mental disorder, ↑mental disturbance, ↑disturbance, ↑folie • Topics: ↑psychiatry, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• psychological medicine — noun the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders • Syn: ↑psychiatry, ↑psychopathology • Derivationally related forms: ↑psychopathological (for: ↑psychopathology), ↑psychopathologic …   Useful english dictionary

• Psychological trauma — (Greek: Ψυχολογικό τραύμα Psychologico travma) is a type of damage to the psyche that occurs as a result of a traumatic event. When that trauma leads to posttraumatic stress disorder, damage may involve physical changes inside the brain and to… …   Wikipedia

• Psychological abuse — Classification and external resources ICD 10 T74.3 ICD 9 995.82 Psychological abuse, also …   Wikipedia

• Psychological anthropology — is a highly interdisciplinary subfield of anthropology that studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes. The subfield tends to focus on ways in which humans development and enculturation within a particular cultural group with its… …   Wikipedia

• Disorder — may refer to : Chaos, unpredictability and in the metaphysical sense, it is the opposite of law and order Civil disorder, one or more forms of disturbance caused by a group of people Disease, an abnormal condition affecting the body of an… …   Wikipedia

• Psychological testing — is a field characterized by the use of samples of behavior in order to infer generalizations about a given individual. The technical term for the science behind psychological testing is psychometrics. By samples of behavior , one means… …   Wikipedia

• disorder — A disturbance of function, structure, or both, resulting from a genetic or embryonic failure in development or from exogenous factors such as poison, trauma, or disease. adjustmen …   Medical dictionary

• Psychological projection — In psychology, psychological projection (or projection bias) is a defense mechanism in which one attributes one’s own unacceptable or unwanted thoughts or/and emotions to others. Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the… …   Wikipedia

• disorder — noun 1 untidy state; lack of order ADJECTIVE ▪ complete VERB + DISORDER ▪ throw sth into ▪ The country was thrown into disorder by the strikes. PREPOSITION ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• Psychological resilience — Resilience in psychology is the positive capacity of people to cope with stress and catastrophe. It is also used to indicate a characteristic of resistance to future negative events. In this sense resilience corresponds to cumulative protective… …   Wikipedia