SYMBOLIC PROCESS
process of thinking where certain ideas, pictures or other mental statement acts as intermediary of thought. This term is commonly…
SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
It is one of the two divisions found in the autonomic nervous system while the other will be known as…
SYMPTOM-CONTEXT METHOD
It is a system of getting the data about the symptoms, which take place in vivo, and in the psychotherapy…
SYNCRETIC THOUGHT
the first and also the pre-logical stage of thinking where a child begins to think. a period which is characterized…
SYSTEMATIC DESENSITIZATION
It is a form of the behaviour therapy and it reduces the anxiety that it is associated with a certain…
SEXUAL AROUSAL
a state of arousal caused by sexual contact or stimulation where impulses are sent through the central nervous system to…
SEXUAL DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED
a sexual problem that does not fit into any one category for dysfunction or paraphilia. This disorder is a sexual…
SEXUAL LIBERATION
1. Being free from sexual constraints and inhibitions that are restrictive. 2. The processes and social trends toward an increase…
SHALLOW AFFECT
impairment in ability to react emotionally, even in times of intense feeling. See flat affect.
SHARED PARANOID DISORDER
A disorder with an illusion of being persecuted that has developed from living with a person who has these beliefs.…
SHOCK THERAPY
treating severe mental disorders by using drugs and an electric current to give a shock to the nervous system. Read…
SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING
A sampling plan where the participants are chosen by a random procedure.