DOUBTING MANIA
The obsessive and extreme feelings of uncertainty about the most obvious matters. Also called doubting madness.
DRAMATIZATION
1. Using attention getting behaviour as a defense for anxiety. 2. Used in psychoanalytic theory for expressing repressed desires.
DREAMY STATE
The brief altered state of conscious like a dream where the person can experience hallucinations.
DUAL-STORE MODEL OF MEMORY
Concept that memory is a 2 stage process comprising short term and long term memory. Also called dual memory theory.
DURHAM RULE
Ruling stating an accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or mental…
DYNAMIC CALCULUS
Model of motivation based on measurements of innate drives and sentiments.
DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
A family showing impaired communication and relationships where members are unable to get close.
DYSNOMIA-AUDITORY RETRIEVAL DISORDER
A disorder of speech and language where problems are associated with naming objects and retrieving words and defects in auditory…
DYSPLASTIC TYPE
Person presenting traits leaning toward the intoversive and seclusive temperament. See constitutional type.
DECISIONAL COMPETENCE
A defendants ability to make the decisions faced by defendants in a criminal defense. See competency evaluation- competency to stand…
DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS (DVT)
A clot usually in the leg which can result from sitting still too long. See thrombosis.
DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR
1. Aggressive or submissive behaviour that is response to any real or imagined threats. 2. Psychoanalytical theory. Behaviour characterised by…
DEGENERATING AXON
The remnants of a dead or injured axon. Seen by using dies that are absorbed by the myelin fibre.