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DECISIVE MOMENT

Psychotherapy. Moment a client makes a momentous decision.

DECUSSATION

A crossing or an intersection that looks like the letter X.

DEFECT

A error, fault, missing element. See congenital defect- genetic defect.

DEFENSIVENESS

The tendency to be sensitive to comments and criticism and to deny them.

DEGRADED STIMULUS

A stimulus, visual or auditory that has had a noise added to it that makes it harder to percieve.

DEJA PENSE

The feeling where you have had the same thoughts before even you haven't.

DELAYED REINFORCEMENT

Reinforcement that happens after a response. Delay may be signaled or unsignaled.

DELTA ALCOHOLISM

The fourth stage of alcoholism wher a person drinks everyday and control over intake is not totally gone. See alpha,

DELUSIONAL SYSTEM

A group of logically connected delusions of a person.

DEMOCRATIC PARENTING

A style of parenting suggested by Alfred Adler where the parents guide a child's development in a steady and accepting

DENDRITIC THORN, DENDRITIC TREE

Total arrangements of the dendrites of one neuron.

DENTATE NUCLEUS

A cluster of cells in the cerebellum.

DEPERSONALIZATION

The state of mind where the self appears to be unreal.

DEPRESSOR NERVE

A nerve that depresses a motor or glandualr activity.

DERAILMENT

Thought disorder symptom marked by interruptions to thought and jumping from one though to another disconnected thought. See cognitive derailment-

DERMIS

The layer of skin directly below the outer layer.

DESEXUALIZATION

Psychoanalytic theory. The neutralisation or elimination of a sexual aim.

DESTRUCTIVENESS

Expressing aggression by using destructive behaviour. See self-destructiveness.

DETERMINATION

1. Mental attitude with astrong commitment to goal reaching. 2. process of making a decision. 3. Precise definition or qualification

DEVALUATION

The defence mechanism that denies the importance of someone or something.