CASTRATION ANXIETY
n. the fear of suffering an injury or loss of the genitals. In the pregenital stage of the Freudian psychoanalytic…
CASTRATION COMPLEX
n, in psychoanalytic theory, refers to the collective feelings and fantasies associated with the child deprived of the phallus. Boys…
CASUAL CROWD
n. a random crowd of people, usually strangers to each other and gathered together purely by chance. They may share…
CATA- (CAT- KATA- KAT-)
combining form which denotes down, beneath, back, or against. For example, the word catatonic (adj.) implies going against a condition…
CATABOLISM
n. an aspect of metabolism which relates to the breakdown of larger, more complex molecules into smaller, simpler substances with…
CATALYTIC AGENT
n. in group psychotherapy, refers to a participant who stimulates an emotional reaction from fellow participants. Thus, this person actively…
CATALYTIC VARIABLE
n. a variable whose presence would facilitate a process socially or biologically. In terms of biology for instance, the variable…
CATAMNESIS
n. the medical history accumulated by a patient after being discharged from treatment. Therefore, this includes the follow-up history obtained…
CATAPHASIA
n. a speech disorder in which there is involuntary yet successive repetition of the same word or same phrase. It…
CATASTROPHE CUSP THEORY
n. a theory that explains the interaction between physiological arousal and cognitive anxiety. When cognitive anxiety is high, physiological arousal…
CATASTROPHE THEORY
in mathematics, refers to the theory on how continuous change (or action) in one variable could produce a discontinuous change…