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Unconditioned: an unconditioned response

Analysand
Autism
Sadism
Bipolar disorder= bipolar affective disorder= maniac depression= boplar. see:
monomaniac.
Bolimia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa
Eating disorder
Down's syndrome
Paranoia
Paranoiac= paranoid(adj1): She's getting really paranoid about what other people
say about her.
Paranoid(2): paranoid delusions
paranoid schizophrenia
a paranoid killer
Paranoid(2)
Siege mentality
Persecution complex
Shell-shock\ed= battle fatigue= combat fatigue.
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Melancholic
Nervous breakdown: to have a nervous breakdown
The stress of her job had brought her to the brink of a nervous breakdown.
Disturbed: a special school for emotionally disturbed children
His behaviour is deeply disturbed.
Depression: clinical depression
She suffered from severe depression after losing her job.
Depressed
Depressive: depressive illness
Schizophrenia
Schizoid: schizoid tendencies
Schizophrenic(n/adj)
Personality disorder
Complex(n3): to suffer from a guilt complex
SEE ALSO inferiority complex, Oedipus complex, persecution complex
OCD= obsessive compulsive disorder: to suffer from OCD
Denial(3): The patient is still in denial.
Deceive(2): You're deceiving yourself if you think he'll change his mind.

Epilepsy
Grand mal
Petit mal
Hysteria(3)

Tourette's syndrome
Hallucinate
Hallucination: to have hallucinations
High temperatures can cause hallucination.
She was admitted to hospital suffering from hallucinations.
Hallucinatory: a hallucinatory experience
hallucinatory drugs
Delirious: He became delirious and couldn't recognize people.
By the time she was rescued, she was delirious with cold and fear.
Delirium: fits of delirium
He mumbled in delirium all night.
DTs.

Dysohoria X Euphoria
Projection(6)
Transfer(n6)

Compos mentis: Are you sure she was fully compos mentis when she said it?
OPPOSITE non compos mentis
Be out of your mind
(Not) in your right mind.
Out of your head | off your head. see: out of your senses.
Lose your mind
Need to have your head examined
Headcase
Of unsound mind
Insane: Doctors certified him as insane.
The prisoners were slowly going insane.
OPPOSITE sane
Insane(2): a hospital for the insane
Insanity: SYNONYM madness
He was found not guilty, by reason of insanity.
OPPOSITE sanity
Normal: People who commit such crimes aren't normal.
OPPOSITE abnormal
Madness: SYNONYM insanity
There may be a link between madness and creativity.
Lunacy= madness
Lunatic(adj/n)
Mad: They realized that he had gone mad.
Inventors are not mad scientists.
I'll go mad if I have to wait much longer.
She seemed to have gone stark raving mad.
A revolver is the only way to stop a mad dog.
SEE ALSO barking mad
As mad as a hatter | as mad as a March hare.
Stark raving mad | stark raving bunkers.
Barking mad
Stir-crazy
Crazy(5): She's crazyshe ought to be locked up.
Crazy(5)
Unhinge: Her mind was unhinged by the death of her child and she never recovered.
See: break sb up, mess sb up at: feelings
Demented
Deranged: mentally deranged
a deranged attacker
At first I thought he was deranged.
The plan seemed to be the product of a deranged mind.
Unbalance
Unbalanced
Instability: mental/emotional instability
OPPOSITE stability
SEE ALSO unstable
Certifiable: (informal) He's certifiable (= he's crazy).
Certifiably
Madman: The killing was the act of a madman.
He drove like a madman.
Some madman (= stupid person) deleted all the files.
Madwoman: Her words sounded like the ravings of a madwoman.
Maniac: SYNONYM madman
He was driving like a maniac.
Maniac: a pyromaniac
Mental(3): Watch him. He's mental.
My dad will go mental (= be very angry) when he finds out.
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 9th edition Oxford University Press, 2015

Sociopath
Psychopath
Psycho(adj): a psycho maniac
Psycho(n): In his new film, he plays the part of a crazed psycho.
Dont let him drivehes a complete psycho behind the wheel!
Whacko= wacko
Psychotic: a psychotic patient
Psychotic(2): a psychotic disorder/illness
SEE ALSO psychosis
Psychotic(n): He suffered a psychotic episode two years ago.
Most psychotic patients are on several types of medication.
a young mother with a psychotic illness
Psychosis
Psychosomatic: Tests showed that her problems were more than merely psychosomatic.
Psychiatry
Psychiatric(n): a leading child psychiatrist
the secrets revealed on the psychiatrists couch
Psychiatric: a psychiatric hospital/nurse
psychiatric treatment
psychiatric disorders
COMPARE mental
Psychological: the psychological development of children
Abuse can lead to both psychological and emotional problems.
Her symptoms are more psychological than physical (= imaginary rather than real).
Victory in the last game gave them a psychological advantage over their opponents.
a psychological novel (= one that examines the minds of the characters)
Mental: SYNONYM psychological
mental health
a mental disorder/illness/hospital
She was suffering from physical and mental exhaustion.
The analysis of dreams can reveal details of a person's mental state.
COMPARE psychiatric
Psychological(2): psychological research
Psycho: psychology
psychiatric
Psychology: social/educational/child psychology
COMPARE pop psychology
Pop psychology: The novel is full of pop psychology.
Psychology(3): the psychology of interpersonal relationships
Psychosexual
Parapsychology.
Psychopathology
Social psychology.
Shrink(n): She sees her shrink once a week.

Certify(3): Patients must be certified before they can be admitted to the hospital.
Section(v3). see: certifiably insane.
Freudian: Freudian psychoanalysis
the Freudian theory of child development
Psychoanalyze, analysis, analyist
Analysand
Psychoanalytic: a psychoanalytic approach
Psychometric: psychometric testing
Heart-searching: This decision came after a great deal of heart-searching.
Soul-searching: After much soul-searching she decided to leave.
Self-examination: spiritual self-examination
Self-analysis
Self-discovery: David left his boring job to go on a journey of self-discovery.
Self-awareness: Counselling can help to achieve greater self-awareness.
Self-aware: She was sufficiently self-aware to recognize the cause of her
problems.
See: emotional intelligence. self-conscious
Retrospection: These situations are best resolved with the minimum of
introspection or self-analysis.
You cant always get to a real understanding of your own psychology through
introspection alone.
Retrospective: There were a lot of family problems and Jim became increasingly
introspective.
an introspective piece of writing

Autogenic. see: anthropogenic. see: all in your head at: fanatsy.


Autogenic training.
Transcendental meditation, TM
Catharsis
Neurolinguistic programming NLP
Neurolinguistic. see: Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Rebirthing
Psychodrama
Rorschach test= ink-blot test
Autosuggestion
Autohypnosis
Trance: to go/fall into a trance
Hypnopaedia
Conductive education
Hypnosis: She only remembered details of the accident under hypnosis.
changes in breathing observed during hypnosis
the things that people remember under hypnosis
Hypnotherapy: Hypnotherapy can be beneficial for those who wish to give up smoking
or to lose weight.
Hypnotic: a hypnotic trance/state
Preconcious:
Collective unconscious
The unconscious
Conation
Superego
Id
Gestalt
Psyche: the human psyche
She knew, at some deep level of her psyche, that what she was doing was wrong.
Much is still not known about the long-term effects of mind-altering drugs on the
human psyche.
Psychology(2): the psychology of small boys
The answers we give will reflect our own psychology.
Watching the shoppers at the sales gave her a first-hand insight into crowd
psychology.
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 9th edition Oxford University Press, 2015

Sex typing

#Therapy
Valium
Antidepressant(n\adj): antidepressant drugs
Happy pills= pep pills
Psychotropic: psychotropic medication/drugs
Psychedelic
Intoxicant

Group therapy
Aversion therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy
Electroshock therapy

Lunatic asylum: This great composer ended his days in a lunatic asylum.
Loony bin
Padded cell. see: self-mutation
Funny farm
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#Nervous system
Autonomic nervous system
Motor nueron
Motor nueron disease
Nerve: the optic nerve
He's off work with a trapped nerve in his neck.
nerve cells
nerve endings
Every nerve in her body was tense.
Nervous: a nervous condition/disorder/disease
She was in a state of nervous exhaustion.
Neural: neural processes
Neuro-: neuroscience
a neurosurgeon
Neuron
Ganglion
Axon
Dendrite
Synapse: Information from one neuron flows to another neuron across a synapse.
Neurology
Neurophysiology

Dopamine

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