English > psychiatry: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | The branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. |
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| Synonyms | psychopathology, psychological medicine |
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| Category of | acting out | (psychiatry) the display of previously inhibited emotions (often in actions rather than words) |
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| analyze, analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse | subject to psychoanalytic treatment |
| anorexia nervosa | (psychiatry) a psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciated |
| anxiety, anxiousness | (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic |
| autism | (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self |
| compensation | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors |
| confabulate | unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory |
| confabulation | (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered |
| conversion | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis |
| defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence | (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires |
| denial | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts |
| displacement | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one |
| echolalia | (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia) |
| expansive | marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur |
| idealization, idealisation | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad |
| intellectualization, intellectualisation | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict / conflict / conflict / conflict |
| isolation | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally / originally associated with it |
| major depressive episode | (psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction |
| mental disorder, mental disturbance, disturbance, psychological disorder, folie | (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion |
| overcompensation | (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite |
| paramnesia | (psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality |
| projection | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else |
| rationalization, rationalisation | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening |
| reaction formation | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them |
| regression | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile / infantile state |
| repression | (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious |
| resistance | (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness |
| suppress, repress | put out of one's consciousness |
| Narrower | alienism | An obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness |
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| psychotherapy, psychotherapeutics, mental hygiene | The branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods |
| Broader | medicine, medical specialty | The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques |
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| Spanish | psicopatología, psiquiatría, siquiatría |
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| Catalan | psiquiatria |
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| Adjectives | psychiatric, psychiatrical | relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry |
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| Nouns | psychiatrist | a physician who specializes in psychiatry |
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