SECONDARY COPING
Refers to the process by which people adjust some aspect of the self and accept circumstances as they are. Also…
SECONDARY PREVENTION
Level of preventive medicine that focuses on early diagnosis, use of referral services, and rapid initiation of treatment to stop…
SECOND-ORDER FACTOR
An aspect that results from the factorization of oblique aspects by correlation to the resulting aspects independently. Compare with: first-order…
SECURITY OPERATIONS
As proposed by US psychoanalyst Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949), various interpersonal protective procedures, including arrogance, boredom, or irritability, which are…
SEISMIC COMMUNICATION
Employing ground or substrate in communication between individuals in certain animal species, usually achieved by thumping or stomping the ground.
SELEGILINE
Drug employed for the treatment of early-stage Parkinson's disease, depression and senile dementia. In normal clinical doses it is a…
SADOMASOCHISM
Sexual practice wherein one partner takes on a sadistic role, while the other submits or takes on the masochist role.…
SAMPLE DISTRIBUTION
Allocation of results in a specific example. May be considered normal, skewed, or bimodal.
SANATORIUM
Now-defunct designation for any facility which offers therapy and confinement to individuals having chronic disorders or mental problems. Also known…
SATISFACTION OF INSTINCTS
Any meeting of basic needs (hunger, thirst, sex, or aggression) which eliminates anxiety and displeasure while restoring the organism to…
SCALA TYMPANI
Perilymph-filled cavities in the cochlear labyrinth, separated from the scala media by the basilar membrane, extending from the round window…
SCAPULAR REFLEX
Reflexive contraction of the scapular muscle due to an irritation of the skin which covers the muscle.
SCHEDULED AWAKENING
Type of behavioral therapy which seeks to reduce the instance of persistent nightmares (see: nightmare disorder; sleep terror disorder). Induces…
SCHIZOPHRENIA IN REMISSION
Diagnosis wherein it has been determined that at least one schizophrenic episode has occurred, but the individual is now symptom…
SCHOLASTIC ASSESSMENT TEST (SAT)
Examination employed in choosing prospects for university admittance, previously known as Scholastic Aptitude Test. It assesses fundamental reading skills, mathematical…
SCHWANNOMA
Tumor, usually solitary and encapsulated, of the fibrous covering of a peripheral nerve, typically benign but with a tendency to…
SCIENTOLOGY
Doctrines and beliefs of a religious movement, founded in the mid-20th century, by L. Ron Hubbard, especially an emphasis upon…
SCOTOMIZATION
Theory in psychoanalysis which refers to the mind's ability to erase a traumatic or overwhelming experience, or the inclination to…