EMOTIONAL DIVORCE
The marital relationship where both partners live separate lives with no interactions.
EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE
1. Philosophy. Knowledge gained from experience. 2. Sciences. Knowledge gained from experiment and observation. See empiricism.
EMPLOYMENT COUNSELING
Counselling that is designed to help a person with work related issues.
ENACTIVE REPRESENTATION
Representing objects and events through action and movement. See enactive mode.
ENCOPRESIS
The repeated and involuntary defecation occurring after age 4 not due to a general mental condition. Compare fecal incontinence.
ENUCLEATION
1. removing a whole organic structure such as a tumour. 2. Removing the nucleus of a cell.
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Developing principles to raise people's awarweness of the environment. See environmental attitudes- social trap.
EPIDEMIOLOGIC CATCHMENT AREA SURVEY (ECA SURVEY)
A telephone survey of mental disorders carried out in 1980 to 1985 in the US to get information about prevalence…
EPILEPTOID PERSONALITY
Personality pattern including irritability, selfishness, aggressiveness and being uncooperative.
EQUILIBRIUM-POINT MODEL
A model for limb control where the target of movement is the equilibrium point between the agonist and antagonist muscle…