Canophilia -Â Definition, Origin, and Signs
Do you love dogs? If you do, then you may have canophilia - an intense love of dogs. Cynophiles are…
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…
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…
CLUTTERING (Tachyphemia)
Excessively rapid, arhythmic speech with a tendency to stutter, jumble words, omit syllables, and reverse parts of words. According to…
COCAINE HABITUATION
Psychological dependence on cocaine resulting in habitual use.Cocaine, a drug derived from the leaves of the coca plant and long…
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (Dissonance Theory)
A state of conflict occurring when beliefs or assumptions are contradicted by new information. Dissonance theory holds that the conflict…
COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS
A Jungian term denoting the portion of the unconscious which is common to all mankind. It is also called the…
CHILD ABUSE (The Battered-Child Syndrome)
Maltreatment of children, especially by those entrusted with their care.Child abuse has a long and sordid history, dating back to…
COLOR BLINDNESS
A defect in the ability to discriminate between simple colors. John Dalton, the British chemist, who was himself color blind,…