MARRIAGE THERAPY
Psychotherapy directed to improving the marital relationship, and “centered on the effortthe psychodynamics and behavior of two persons who are…
MASCULINE PROTEST
A term applied by Alfred Adler to an urge to escape from the feminine role in life.The masculine protest occurs…
MASCULINITY-FEMININITY TESTS
A number of tests have been designed to measure the degree of masculinity and femininity. The first to be developed,…
MASS HYSTERIA
These terms are applied primarilyto the “psychic epidemics” which have at times swept through an entire population. The most vivid…
MELANCHOLIC PERSONALITY
A personality pattern disturbance characterized by a constant mild depression and an inability to enjoy life.Melancholic individuals are subdued and…
MENINGOVASCULAR SYPHILIS
Aform of cerebral syphilis in which the blood vessels and brain coverings (meninges) are attacked by the spirochete germ. The…
MENTAL HEALTH AND ECONOMIC LEVEL
A recent and promising development in the mental health field is the long-overdue recognition that patients on different socioeconomic levels…
MENTAL PATIENT ORGANIZATIONS
Social clubs or other organizations formed to help former mental patients readjust to community life.These organizations are based on the…
MENTAL RETARDATION (CAUSES)
Mental retardation is not a single disorder, syndrome, or clinical entity. Rather, it is a symptom associated with a large…
MANIC-DEPRESSIVE REACTION (DEPRESSIVE PHASE)
Depressive reactions frequently occur in persons who have a history of manic episodes, butare even more often the sole expression…
MENTAL RETARDATION (PREVENTION, CARE, AND TREATMENT)
Considerable progress has been made in the care and treatment of the mentally retarded in recent years. In the past…
MAKE - A - PICTURE - STORY TEST (MAPS)
A projective test in which the subject tells stories about cardboard figures which he selects and places against a background.The…
MANGANESE POISONING
A toxic disorder produced by inhalation of volatile manganese; classified by the American Psychiatric Association (1952) under brain syndromes resulting…
MANIC-DEPRESSIVE REACTION (CIRCULAR AND MIXED TYPES)
Manic-depressive psychosis was long known as a cyclic or circular illness, but actually only 15 to 25 per cent of…
METABOLIC EQUIVALENT
a unit of measurement of energy, or heat, generated by the body. 1 MET = 50 kcal/h/nr bodily exterior. MET…
MACROELECTRODE
usually has a diameter of a millimetre or more and are used as conductors of electrical currents in pieces of…
MAHALANOBIS I)
first proposed by Chanra Mahalanobis (1893 - 1972) as a measure of the distance between two multidimensional points.