FAMILY CARE
The object of family care is to provide for patients who no longer need the specialized services of a hospital…
FIGURAL AFTEREFFECTS
There are two principal types of aftereffect: the apparent distortion of a figure following prolonged inspection, and the effect of…
FORCED CHOICE
A testing technique that requires the subject to make a choice between two or more favorable or unfavorable alternatives. This…
FRANZ, SHEPHERD IVORY
Chiefly noted for his studies of brain functions, Franz did his undergraduate and graduate work at Columbia University, except for…
FREUD, SIGMUND (1856-1939)
Freud was bom in Freiburg but lived in Vienna from age four to the last year of his life, when…
FROMM, ERICH (1900—)
The United States in 1933. In his widely read books—Escape from Freedom (1941), Man for Himself (1947), The Sane Society…
FRUCTOSURIA
A rare familial disease involving the metabolism of fructose (fruit sugar) and resulting in mental retardationThe disorder is probably transmitted…
FUGUE STATE
An amnesic dissociated state characterized by physical flight from an unbearable situation.A fugue is a more extreme form of escape…
FACILITATION
is the change or difference in the strength of a stimulus which follows a potentially weaker stimulus at a neuron.…
FACTOR STRUCTURE MATRIX
is the hypothetical construction of a structure which is normally associated with factor analysis where the factor structure is a…
FAIRBAIRNIAN THEORY
was first proposed by British psychoanalyst W. Ronald Fairbairn (1889 - 1964) which formed a smaller part of the larger…
FALSE CONSENSUS
is the social phenomena where every member of a group is believed to hold the same opinion, irrespective of the…
FALSIFICATIONISM
was first proposed by Austrian-born British philosopher Karl Popper (1902 - 1994) postulating that only through falisification can a concept…
FAMILY OF ORIGIN
refers to the family, or parents an individual was either raised or born into, this may not be the same…
FARBER'S LIPOGRANULOMATOSIS
was first proposed by Sydney Farber (1903 - 1973), a U.S. paediatric pathologist who postulated the disorder based on lipid…
FATHER-IDEAL
with respect to psychoanalytic theory, the father-ideal is part of the larger ego-ideal, which the larger model implies is formed…
FEAR SURVEY SCHEDULE (FSS)
is a 72-item questionnaire which was designed to accurately measure the level of fear, phobic behaviour and generalized anxiety an…
FEBRILE SEIZURE
seizure that is caused by high body temperature in children that is not associated with any infection or damage to…