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compensation
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attempt to overcome feelings of inferiortiy or make up for deficiency
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conversion
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channeling of unvearable anxieties into body signs and symptoms
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denial
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refusal to acknowledge conflict and thus escapes reality of situation
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displaacement
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redirecting of energies to antother person of object
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fantasy
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distortion of unacceptiable wishes, behaviors
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identification
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taking on o personal characteristics of admired person to conceal own feelings of inadequacy
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intellectualization
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focusing of attention on technical or logical aspects of threatening situation
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isolation
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separation of feelings from content to cope unemotionmally with topics that would noramlly be overwhleming
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projection
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putting of one's own unacceptable thoughs, wishes, emotions onto others
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rationalization
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use of a "good" (but not real), reason to explain behavior to make unacceptable motiveation more acceptable
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reaction formation
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prevention of expression of threatening material by engaging in behaviors that are directly opposite to repressed material
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regression
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coing with present conflict, stress by returning to earlier, more secure stage of life
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restitution
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giving back to resolve guilt feelings
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sublimation
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unconsious channeling of unacceptable behaviors into constructive, more socially approved areas
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substitution
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Disguising of motivations by replacing inappropriate behaviors with one that is more acceptable
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suppression
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removeal of conlict by removing anxiety from consciousness
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symbolization
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use of an unrelated object to represent hidden idea
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undoing
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inappropriate behavior that is followed by acts to take away or reverse action and decrease guilt and anxiety
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acupuncture
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inserting of fine needles into the skin along specific sites ont he body
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affective
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pertaining to motion, mood, or feeling
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biofeedback
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a process that provides visual or auditory information about autonomic body functions
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closed system
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set of interacting, related units with rigid, energy and eventually shorten survival
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cognition
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activities of teh mind characterized by knowing, learning, judging, reasoning, and memory
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cognitive
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pertaining to the mental processes of comprehension, judgment, memor, and reasoning
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defense mechanisms
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unconscious, intrapsychic reaction that offers protection to the self from sa stressful situation
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ego
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in psychoanalysis, the part o the psyche that experiences and maintains conscious contact with reality; rational part of the personality; eat of mental processes such as perception and memory; develops defese mechanisms to cope with anxiety
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equilibrium
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attemptof a system or organism to maintain a steady state or balance within itself and among other systems
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homeostasis
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tendancy of the body to acieve and maintain a steady internal state
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id
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in psychanalysis the part of the psyche functioning in the unconscious that is the souce of istincitve energy, inpulses, and drives; based on teh pleasure priciple; has strong tendencies toward self-preservation
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inferiority
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feeling of being inadequate or less than others
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Libidinal engergy
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drive to reproduce
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Life space
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the psychological field or space in which one moves
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model
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Example orpattern that privides a matrix or framework for a theory
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neuropeptides
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Neuroransmitters composed of amino acid strings that interact with the endocrine, immune, and nervous system
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neurotransmiters
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Chemicalsfound in the nervous sstem tha facilitate the transmission of energy and act as the body's chemical messenger system
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open system
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set of interacting, related units with permeavle boundaries through which matter, energy, and information pass
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perosonification
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According to Harry stack sullivan, distorted images of certain relationhips that spill over or tranfer into other relationships
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phototherapy
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exposure of clients to full-spectrum light for certain periods during the day for the relief of depressive symptoms that occur during the winter months
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pyche
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vital or spiritual aspect of the individual as opposed to the body or soma; total components of the id, ego, and superego, including all conscious and unconscious aspects
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psychoanalyis
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branch of psychiatry founded by Sigmund Freud devoted to the study of the psychology of human behavior; also a therapy for certain emotional disorders that investigates teh workings of the mind
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psychobiology
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study of the biochemical foundations of thought, mood, emotion, afect, and behavior
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psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)
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the study of interactions among the body's cental nervous system,its immune system, and aspects of the personality
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psychotherapy
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any of a large number of related methods of treating mental-emotional disorders by psychological techniques rather than by physical means
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soma
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the body, as distinguishedfrom the mind or psyche
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somatic therapy
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physical interventions that affect behavioral changes
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stressor
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A nonspecific responce of the body to any demand placed on it
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superego
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part of the psyche, functioning mostly in the unconscious, that develops when the standards of the parents and society are incorporated into the ego
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theory
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statement that predicts, explains, or describes a relationship among events, concepts, or ideas
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