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Displacement
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Displacement A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, in which emotions, ideas, or wishes are transferred from their original object to a more acceptable substitute; often used to allay anxiety.
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Mechanism
The arrangement or association of the elements or parts of anything in relation to the effect they generate; the combination of mental processes by which an effect is generated.
Allay
Allay is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) legal in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): acetaminophen; hydrocodone bitartrate .
Anxiety
A psychological and/or biological response to stress. Feelings of anxiety involve discomforting apprehension or concern, which may include symptoms such as cognitive difficulties, hypersensitivity, dizziness, muscular weakness, breathing difficulties, irregular heart beat, sweating, and sensations of fear. Typically, anxiety is a natural and healthy response to life experiences. However, exaggerated or chronic anxiety often indicates an anxiety disorder. Anxiety can be produced by external stress (exogenous anxiety) or internal stress (endogenous anxiety).
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Disparity gradient
The ratio of the difference between two feature's disparities and their cyclopean separation. Steeply slanted surfaces have large disparity gradients. Human binocular fusion will only tolerate a disparity gradient of about 1.
Dispermox
Dispermox is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): amoxicillin.
Displaced child syndrome
When an older child feels jealous or rejected after the birth of a sibling.
Displacement paraphilia
One of the paraphilias in which an intrinsic element becomes developmentally dislocated and repositioned in the lovemap, thus changing it from normophilic to paraphilic.
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Detachment
A behavior pattern characterized by general aloofness in interpersonal contact; may include intellectualization, denial, and superficiality.
Disconnection syndrome
Term coined by Norman Geschwind to describe the interruption of information transferred from one brain region to another.
Disinhibition
Freedom to act according to one's inner drives or feelings, with less regard for restraints imposed by cultural norms or one's superego; removal of an inhibitory, constraining, or limiting influence, as in the escape from higher cortical control in neurologic injury, or in uncontrolled firing of impulses, as when a drug interferes with the usual limiting or inhibiting action of GABA within the central nervous system.
Disorientation
Confusion about the time of day, date, or season (time), where one is (place), or who one is (person).
Dysphoric mood
An unpleasant mood, such as sadness, anxiety, or irritability.
Displacement
Dissociation
disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment. The disturbance may be sudden or gradual, transient or chronic.
Distractibility
The inability to maintain attention, that is, the shifting from one area or topic to another with minimal provocation, or attention being drawn too frequently to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli.
Double bind
Interaction in which one person demands a response to a message containing mutually contradictory signals, while the other person is unable either to comment on the incongruity or to escape from the situation.
Drive
Basic urge, instinct, motivation; a term used to avoid confusion with the more purely biological concept of instinct.
Dyad
A two-person relationship, such as the therapeutic relationship between doctor and patient in individual psychotherapy.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Mechanism
The arrangement or association of the elements or parts of anything in relation to the effect they generate; the combination of mental processes by which an effect is generated.
Allay
Allay is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) legal in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): acetaminophen; hydrocodone bitartrate .
Anxiety
A psychological and/or biological response to stress. Feelings of anxiety involve discomforting apprehension or concern, which may include symptoms such as cognitive difficulties, hypersensitivity, dizziness, muscular weakness, breathing difficulties, irregular heart beat, sweating, and sensations of fear. Typically, anxiety is a natural and healthy response to life experiences. However, exaggerated or chronic anxiety often indicates an anxiety disorder. Anxiety can be produced by external stress (exogenous anxiety) or internal stress (endogenous anxiety).
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Disparity gradient
The ratio of the difference between two feature's disparities and their cyclopean separation. Steeply slanted surfaces have large disparity gradients. Human binocular fusion will only tolerate a disparity gradient of about 1.
Dispermox
Dispermox is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): amoxicillin.
Displaced child syndrome
When an older child feels jealous or rejected after the birth of a sibling.
Displacement paraphilia
One of the paraphilias in which an intrinsic element becomes developmentally dislocated and repositioned in the lovemap, thus changing it from normophilic to paraphilic.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Detachment
A behavior pattern characterized by general aloofness in interpersonal contact; may include intellectualization, denial, and superficiality.
Disconnection syndrome
Term coined by Norman Geschwind to describe the interruption of information transferred from one brain region to another.
Disinhibition
Freedom to act according to one's inner drives or feelings, with less regard for restraints imposed by cultural norms or one's superego; removal of an inhibitory, constraining, or limiting influence, as in the escape from higher cortical control in neurologic injury, or in uncontrolled firing of impulses, as when a drug interferes with the usual limiting or inhibiting action of GABA within the central nervous system.
Disorientation
Confusion about the time of day, date, or season (time), where one is (place), or who one is (person).
Dysphoric mood
An unpleasant mood, such as sadness, anxiety, or irritability.
Displacement
Dissociation
disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment. The disturbance may be sudden or gradual, transient or chronic.
Distractibility
The inability to maintain attention, that is, the shifting from one area or topic to another with minimal provocation, or attention being drawn too frequently to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli.
Double bind
Interaction in which one person demands a response to a message containing mutually contradictory signals, while the other person is unable either to comment on the incongruity or to escape from the situation.
Drive
Basic urge, instinct, motivation; a term used to avoid confusion with the more purely biological concept of instinct.
Dyad
A two-person relationship, such as the therapeutic relationship between doctor and patient in individual psychotherapy.
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