REACTION FORMATION
The psychoanalytical theory that as a defense mechanism, an individual will respond to unacceptable or threatening unconscious impulses by exhibiting…
READMISSION
The admission to a hospital on the part of a patient who was admitted prior and was released.
REALITY PRINCIPLE
The reality principle is a theory in psychoanalysis that defines it as representing the demands of the external world and…
REBIRTHING
A therapy featuring the use of continuous, focused breathing and deep reflection under the guidance of a "rebirther" practitioner. To…
RECEPTIVE CHARACTER
A theory of Erich Fromm. It describes a passive and compliant personality type. Such a personality is characterized as receptively…
RECIPROCAL INHIBITION
The therapeutic technique that attempts to replace an undesired response with a more desirable one by counter conditioning. It requires…
RECOGNITORY ASSIMILATION
A form of sensorimotor intelligence identified by the discerning application of a scheme. For instance, a baby utilizes a sucking…
RECOVERY TIME
The duration necessary for a neural unit (e.g. neuron, muscle cell) to recuperate from a reaction before it will respond…
RED NUCLEUS
Structure in the rostral midbrain, a subcortical center of the extrapyramidal motor system. Receives information from the cerebellum and is…
REDUNDANT PREPUCE
Superfluous growth of foreskin (prepuce). May cause problems if foreskin cannot be drawn back over the glans.
REFLEX LATENCY
Elapsed time between a stimulus and a reflex response. See also: central reflex time.
REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
Branch of applied medicine which researches the body's natural ability to self-heal, as well as the means by which self-healing…
REGRESSIVE RECONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH
Psychotherapeutic method where the subject is pushed to relive traumatic events (and to re-experience the emotional intensity of those events)…
REIFICATION
To regard an abstraction as something concrete or material; a conversion of abstract concepts into a material or concrete existence.…
REITAN-KLOVE SENSORY PERCEPTUAL EXAMINATION
A component of the Halsted-Reitan Neuropshychological Battery, measures visual, tactile, and auditory sensory function bilaterally on the subject's body. Also…
RELATIONAL RESEARCH
Ascertaining the potency of a relationship in relation to two or more variables.