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N., Sam M.S.

Sam holds a masters in Child Psychology and is an avid supporter of Psychology academics.
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EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY

Psychotherapy that deals with the here and now rather than the past.

EXISTENTIAL VACUUM

The inability to find meaning in life. See existential crisis- existential neurosis.

EXISTENTIAL-HUMANISTIC THERAPY

Psychotherapy dealing the whole person and not just behaviour and underlying motivations. Also called humanistic existential therapy.

EXISTENTIALISM

A philosophical and literary movement coming out of europe between the World Wars and was dominant through the 1940's and

EXIT INTERVIEW

1. Meeting of a student with the school counsellor before leaving for the next step in education. 2. Employee's last

EXOCATHECTION

The concentration of psychic energy on practical and worldly affairs instead of personal things. See cathexis.

EXOCRINE GLAND

A gland secreting a product through a duct. Compare endocrine gland.

EXOGAMY

The practice of marrying outside of the clan or social unit. Compare endogamy. See intermarriage- outbreeding.

EXOGENOUS

Originating outside the body. Compare endogenous.

EXOGENOUS CUE

A cue in our peripheral field of vision that draws our attention. A cue while the target is present. Compare endogenous

EXOGENOUS STRESS

Strees coming from an external situation.

EXOPHORIA

The deviation of one eye in an outward direction. See phoria.

EXOPHTHALMOS

Where the eyeball protudes out abnormally.

EXOPSYCHIC

A mental activity that produces a supposed effects outside of the person. Compare endopsychic.

EXORCISM

The practice of expelling evil spirits from a person. See inhabitance.

EXORCIST

An exomatic technique used in psychogalvanic response studies where electrical resistance of skin is measured. See galvanic skin response.

EXOSYSTEM

The structures of society that function independent from the individuals.

EXOTROPIA

The outward deviation of an eye that is permanent. Also called divergent strabismus- wall eye. See strabismus- iropia.

EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS

A sensory effect possible from meditation or mind altering drugs where a person feels like his mind has been opened

EXPANSIVE DELUSION

The less common name for delusion of grandeur.