PAIN MANAGEMENT
the inhibition, lessening, or ridding of physical or cognitive suffering or discomfort, that might be attained by pharmacotherapy, behavioral techniques,…
PALMAR REFLEX
a reflex wherein the fingers are flexed whenever the palm is stimulated or touched.
PANPSYCHISM
noun. the stance postulating that all components of the natural world retain some quality of soul or some type of…
PARABIOSIS
noun. the faux or innate connecting of two people so that their circulatory programs interlink, as in the circumstance of…
PARADOXICAL INTENTION
initially performed by Austrian psychiatrist Viktor K. Frankl, a psychotherapeutic method wherein the patient is asked to exaggerate an uncomfortable,…
PARALANGUAGE
noun. the vocal but non-verbal components of correspondence by talking. Paralanguage comprises not just suprasegmental aspects of talking, like stress…
PARANOID-SCHIZOID POSITION
with regard to the object relations theory of Melanie Klein, the time from birth until the 6th month of life…
PARENTING STRESS INDEX (PSD
a tool utilized to analyze stress in mother-youth or father-youth interaction and to point out possibly dysfunctioning mothering or fathering…
PARTIAL CORRELATION
the association between two variables with the impact of at least one other variable on their interassociation statistically removed or…
PARTICIPATIVE LEADERSHIP
a leadership style wherein followers are permitted to come to be engaged in decision-making and are rendered autonomy in performing…
PASSIVE ALGOLAGNIA
interest and satisfaction stemming from experiencing pain during carnal activity, that being, from being the masochist in a union involving…
PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER
a personality disorder of long standing wherein ambivalence toward the self and other people is shown by such manners as…
PATHOGENIC FAMILY PATTERN
aversive or damaging family outlooks, principles, and behavior which lay the foundation for cognitive and behavioral disorder.
PAVLOV, IVAN PETROVICH
(1849-1936) A Russian physiologist. Ivan Pavlov attained a medical degree from the Military-Medical Academy of Saint Petersburg in 1833. He…