DEATH SYSTEM
the flexible trends by which a community mediates its union with death in effort to stay viable as a commune…
DECATASTROPHIZING
Technique used to people with irrational fears by exploring the reality of the situation.
DATE-RAPE DRUG
a drug which is slyly given to inhibit awareness or memory for the intent of carnal exploitation of the sufferer.…
DCNIONOLATOR N
with regard to demonology, the step-by-step analysis of the belief in evil entities and demons, often described in folktales and…
DEATH TABOO (DEATH TABU)
the virtue that death is so hazardous and scary a topic that someone ought not just abstain from contact with…
DECATHEXIS
Psychoanalytic theory. The withdrawal of libido from objects in the external world. Compare caihexis.
DALLENBACH STIMULATOR
introduced by American psychologist Karl M. Dellenbach, a tool used to supply regulated thermal stimulants to the skin.
DARWINIAN ALGORITHM
proposed by Charles Darwin, with regard to evolutionary developmental psychology, an inborn setting-specific mental program that grew to attain certain…
DEATH TRANCE
a condition of obvious paused motion in a person, marked by little physical movement
DECAY THEORY
The theory that states unless we keep using something we have remembered it will eventually go away. Also called trace-decay…
DARWINIAN FITNESS
proposed by Charles Darwin, the general achievement of a certain living being or genotype in generating viable offspring, which is…
DAUBERT HEARING
an official demonstration and evaluation of facts which is engaged in by American federal courts to establish whether or not…
DE LANGE'S SYNDROME
a hereditary disorder that presents in two ways, both being inclusive of average to serious cognitive retardation and corresponding to…
DEATH WISH
1. with regard to psychoanalytic theory, an aware or unaware desire that someone else, especially an authority figure, will meet…