PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS
A name identifying any of the various hallucinogenic drugs. Psychedelics was a term first proposed by Humphry Osmond.
PSYCHIC NUMBING
Psychic numbing is the condition brought on by trauma resulting in incapacity to express emotions such as love or closeness.
PSYCHOBIOGRAPHY
Basically the biography of a client's psychological life. This profile attempts an analysis of a client's personality and the chronicling…
PSYCHOGENDER
A fairly uncommon name for gender self-identity. It is used to help distinguish between psychological sex identity and biological sex…
PSYCHOLEPSY
The acute onset of a major depressive event. Often associated with a bipolar disorder.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS AFFECTING MEDICAL CONDITION
Those psychological and/or behavioral factors adversely affecting the course, treatment or outcome of an existing medical condition. These factors range…
PSYCHOLOGICAL TIME
The subjective experience of the passage of time. The brain interprets both internal and external stimuli and processes that stimuli…
PSYCHOSEXUAL
An adjective for any aspect of sexuality in humans based on or being influenced by psychological factors. The opposite of…
PSYCHOSOMATIC
An approach to treatment that makes the assumption that the mind plays at least a partial role in all disease…
PSYCHOTICISM
A personality dimension with characteristics of aggression, aloofness, antisocial behavior and impulsive actions. The dimension demonstrates a susceptibility to psychotic…
PUBLIC SELF
The public self is the view of oneself by others as conveyed through public information, public action and interaction with…
PURPOSIVE BEHAVIORISM
A theory in cognitive learning that states that behavioral acts have an underlying purpose. And that all goals of the…
PRESYNAPTIC
A portion of a neuron from which neurotransmitter(s) are released via a synapse.
PREVERBAL CONSTRUCT
Proposed first by U.S psychologist George A. Kelly (1905 to 1967), a preverbal construct was conceptualized before language capabilities were…