Canophilia - Definition, Origin, and Signs
Do you love dogs? If you do, then you may have canophilia - an intense love of dogs. Cynophiles are…
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS
In 1963 Congress passed the Community Mental Health Centers Act, authorizing an appropriation of 150 million dollars to finance up…
COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRY
A recently developed specialty defined byHume (1966) as “the maximum utilization of community resources in the identification, treatment, or rehabilitation…
COMPENSATION
The tendency to develop strength in one area to offset weakness in anotherCompensation may be a deliberate, conscious reaction, an…
COMPENSATION NEUROSIS (Accident Neurosis)
A psychoneurotic reaction following a real or presumed disability which involves the question of financial compensation for injury or disease.Compensation…
COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY
A personality trait disturbance characterized by an exaggerated sense of responsibility and an excessive need for perfection.The compulsive personality tends…
CONFABULATION (Pseudoreminiscence)
A distortion of memory, or paramnesia, in which gaps in recall are filled by fictional events and experiences.Confabulations can be…
CORPUS STRIATUM (Striped Body)
A portion of the cerebral hemispheres, enveloped by the cortex, and consisting of projection fibers passing upward and downward between…
CREATIVITY TESTS
Tests designed to identify creative talentIn recent years a number of psychologists have turned their attention to the subject of…
CYCLOTHYMIC PERSONALITY (Cycloid Personality)
A personality pattern disturbance characterized by frequently alternating moods of elation and dejection.The cyclothymic (or cycloid) individual tends to be…
COMMON COLD
Practically all recent research on the common cold has been devoted to finding the viruses which are believed to be…
CIRCUMSTANTIALITY
Circuitous, “labyrinthine” speech; the inclusion of numerous trivial and often irrelevant details in relating an incident, explaining a point, or…
CIVILIAN CATASTROPHE REACTIONS
Transient situational personality disorders resulting from severely traumatic experiences in civilian life, classified by the American Psychiatric Association (1952) under…
CLANG ASSOCIATION
An association of words or ideas by similarity of sound.Young children often use clang associations when they talk or sing…
CLIENT-CENTERED THERAPY
The nondirective approach developed by Carl Rogers, in which psychotherapy is viewed as an opportunity for the patient to grow…
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
A field of psychology devoted to psychological methods of diagnosing and treating mental and emotional disorders, as well as research…
CLOUDING OF CONSCIOUSNESS
A mental disturbance in which the individual is unable to perceive, understand, and think clearly.When a patient’s consciousness becomes clouded…
CLUTTERING (Tachyphemia)
Excessively rapid, arhythmic speech with a tendency to stutter, jumble words, omit syllables, and reverse parts of words. According to…