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Chemical castration
Biological intervention to suppress testosterone levels
Countertransference
Therapist's feelings about the client
Dyspareunia
Persistent genital pain associated with sexual intercourse
Ego-dystonic homosexuality
Old DSM-III diagnosis
Exhibitionism
Exposure of one's genitals to unsuspecting stranger
Female orgasmic disorder
Persistent delay/absence of orgasm following normal sexual excitement
Female sexual arousal disorder
Problems with adequate lubrication-swelling response of sexual excitement
Fetishism
Use of nonliving objects
Frotteurism
Rubbing/touching against nonconsenting person
Gender Identity Disorder (DID)
Intense discomfort with one's biological sex and desire to change sexes
Hypoactive sexual desire
Persistently deficient sexual fantasies, desire
Male erectile disorder
Problems with erection
Male orgasmic disorder
Problems with orgasm following normal sexual excitement phase
Masturbatory satiation (or orgasmic reconditioning)
Behavioral treatment for paraphilias in which client masturbates to "normal" sexual stimuli
Paraphilia
Abnormal sexual desires, preferences
Pedophilia
Sexual activity with prepubescent child(ren)
Phallometric assessment
Measurement of penile responses to various stimuli
Premature ejaculation
Persistent ejaculation with minimal sexual stimulation; before person wishes
Sexual aversion
Extreme aversion/avoidance of sexual contact
Sexual dysfunctions
Persistent problems with sexual interest, response, orgasm
Sexual masochism
Sexual urges re: being humiliated, beaten, bound, etc
Sexual sadism
Sexual urges re: victim is suffering
Temperament
Inborn behavioral tendencies
Transvestic fetishism
Cross-dressing in heterosexual male
Identification with aggressor
Defense mechanism - doing unto others what was done to one's self
Vaginismus
Involuntary spasm of musculature of vagina that interferes with sexual intercourse
Voyeurism
Sexual urges re: observing unsuspecting person naked/undressing
Antisocial PD
Disregard for rights of others
Avoidant PD
Social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, hypersensitivity to negative evaluation
Borderline PD
Instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, emotions, impulsivity, and self-destructive behavior
Dependent PD
Submissive, clinging behavior related to excessive need to be cared for by others
Devaluation
Defense Mechanism - someone/thing external disparaged in order to protect against negative feelings about self
Escape into fantasy
Defense mechanism - someone/thing seen as being perfect/wonderful in order to protect against negative feelings
Ideas of reference
Idiosyncratic beliefs that normal events contain "special" meanings
Intellectualization
Defense Mechanism - detached rational approach to protect against upsetting emotions
Isolation of Affect
Defense Mechanism - thoughts occur without associated feelings
Magical thinking
Believing that one's thoughts influence external events
Narcissistic PD
Extreme grandiosity, need for admiration, lack of empathy
OCPD
OCD but ego-syntonic - focus on personality traits
Paranoid PD
Extreme distrust and suspiciousness
Personality
Individual's unique and stable way of experiencing the world that is reflected in a predictable set of reactions to a variety of situations
Personality traits
Behavioral tendencies that are relatively stable across time and place
Polythetic
Minimum predetermined diagnostic criteria to warrant diagnosis
Primary process thought
Illogical childlike mode of thinking that is associated with unconscious mind
Reaction formation
Defense Mechanism - Unwanted impule or emotion turned into its opposite
Projection
Defense Mechanism - Individual attributes his or her own emotion to someone or something else
Psychotic
Being profoundly out of touch with reality
Regression
Defense Mechanism - return to childlike behavior in order to avoid anxieties associated with progressive development
Schizoid PD
Detachment from social relationships and restricted range of emotional expression
Schizotypal PD
Eccentricities of behavior, cognitive or perceptual distortions, and acute discomfort in close relationships
Secondary process thought
Logical, reality-oriented thinking
Temperamental
Innate behavioral tendencies
Undoing
Defense mechanism - one action or thought used to cancel out another action or thought
Withdrawal
Defense mechanism - individual retreats from emotional engagement with others
Active phase
2nd phase of schizophrenia, psychotic symptoms
Affective flattening
Reduction or absence of normal emotion
Alogia
Minimal, absent verbal communication
Anhedonia
Loss of sense of pleasure
Antipsychotic medication
Reduce psychotic symptoms, typical
and atypical (target both positive/negative symptoms)
Assertive community treatment (ACT)
Treatment for schizophrenia - frequent coordinated contact with variety of professionals
Avolition
Reduced, absent motivation
Brief Psychotic Disorder
Schizophrenia symptoms < 1 mo
Catatonic
Psychomotoric symptoms, immobility;
Subtype of schizophrenia
Clang associations
nonsense sequences of rhyming, sound-alike words
Communication deviance
Odd, idiosyncratic communication in families
D2 receptors
Dopamine transmission, play role in schizophrenia
Delusional disorder
Nonbizarre delusions at least one month
Delusions
Fixed, false, often bizarre beliefs
Dementia praecox
Early Greek for schizophrenia
Disorganized
Subtype of schizophrenia - disorganized speech, behavior, inappropriate affect
Dopamine hypothesis
Excess dopamine transmission causes psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia
Double-bind communications
Contradictory messages in family systems
Downward drift
Decline in socioeconomic status of individuals with schizophrenia
Echolalia
Person mimics what he just heard
Echopraxia
Repeating gestures of others
Expressed emotion
High levels of criticism and overinvolvement in families
Hypofrontality
General decrease in activity of prefrontal cortex
Impaired sensory gating
Difficulty processing sensory input
Loose associations
Sequence of logically disconnected thoughts
Milieu treatment
Clients take active responsibility about management of environment, therapies
Negative/Type II symptoms
Deficits - flat affect, loss of motivation, poverty of speech
Neologisms
Made-up words
Neuroleptic
Antipsychotic
Paranoid
Most common subtype of schizophrenia, predominant symptoms of delusions, hallucinations; intact cognitive, emotional functioning
Parkinsonism
Stiffness, tremors associated with Parkinson's disease (result of anti-psychotics limiting dopamine)
Personal therapy
Combines all psych schools of thought to help clients solve practical problems of daily life
Phenothiazines
1st gen antipsychotic
Positive/Type I Symptoms
Pathological excesses - delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, thought, behavior
Prodromal
First stage of schizophrenia, symptoms developing
Psychosis
Out of touch with reality
Resdual
Third stage of schizophrenia, no longer psychotic but w/ signs of disorder
Schizoaffective disorder
Both mood disorder and schizophrenia
Schizophreniform
Schizophrenia 1-6mo
Schizotaxia
Latent vulnerability for developing schizophrenia
Shared delusional disorder (folie à deux)
Delusions that develop in the context of close relationship with psychotic person
Thought blocking
Inability to talk despite trying to do so
Undifferentiated
Subtype of schizophrenia that meets general criteria but not other subtypes
Waxy flexibility
Catatonic symptom in which clients' limbs can be bent and reshaped
Word salad
Random collection of disorganized words