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Mental mechanisms.
borderline state, denial, depressive position, displacement, dissociation, fantasy, intellectualisation, Melanie Klein, mental mechanisms, paranoid-schizoid position, projection, projective identification, psychic retreat, psychoanalysis, rationalisation, reaction formation, regression, repression, schizoid fantasy, Sigmund Freud, splitting, sublimation, suppression, Understanding motor events: a neurophysiological studyMental mechanisms are situational. Mental mechanisms do not have indices of test-retest reliability or of inter-rater reliability. The distributions of mental mechanisms by age, gender, social class, and intelligence are not established.Mental mechanisms may be unspoken, or may be confined to a consultation during which money changes hands. Once other people are involved, the possibility…
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The biochemistry of the unconscious mind.
activation, apocrine glands, auto-brewery syndrome, automatisms, deactivation, denial, Differential Roles of Neuronal Activity in the Supplementary and Presupplementary Motor Areas: From Information Retrieval to Motor Planning and Execution, dissociation, dopamine, Experience-Dependent Neural Integration of Taste and Smell in the Human Brain, fear sweat, gamma-aminobutyric acid, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), gut fermentation syndrome, histamine, hyperventillation, hypoglycaemia, Impact of Amblyopia on the Central Nervous System, inhibition, Integration of Auditory and Visual Communication Information in the Primate Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex, mast cells, nervous sweating, postsynaptic inhibition, presynaptic inhibition, repetition suppression, repression, skin rash, somnambulism, stress sweat, suppression, synaptic depression, tetany, the back of the mind, The Paradox of Iridescent Signals, undivided attention, Visual cortical γ-aminobutyric acid and perceptual suppression in amblyopiaDenial, dissociation, suppression, and repression reduce to inhibition, and thus to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), for example, amblyopia (dim vision). Putting thoughts to the back of the mind, giving undivided attention, and suspension of disbelief, are expressions that imply inhibition, and thus GABA.“Differential Roles of Neuronal Activity in the Supplementary and Presupplementary Motor Areas: From Information…
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The physiology of the unconscious mind.
adolescence, birth rate, Cassio, Desdemona, diurnal variation, feminism, GnRH, gonadotropin-releasing hormone, Hormones associated with non-maternal infant care: A review of mammalian and avian studies., human oestrus, lunar variation, marriage rate, melatonin, menstrual cycle, mirror neurones, nervi conarii, Othello, overview, oxytocin, peer review, person (mis)perception: functionally biased sex categorization of bodies, phototherapy, pineal gland, puberty, seasonal affective disorder, sex differences in brain activation elicited by humor, sleep on it, speciation, the human brain representation of odor identification, The post-orgasmic prolactin increase following intercourse is greater than following masturbation and suggests greater satiety, trust, Understanding motor events: a neurophysiological study, violence exposure is associated with preference for masculine faces: evidence from Senegal, Wikipedia: puberty in tropical countries, winter depressionWe sleep on it, mindful of diurnal variation in what is unconscious. What is unconscious to a male can be conscious to a female, as suggested by “…our great captain’s captain,…”.While it is true that what is unconscious to a male can be conscious to a female, it is also true that what is conscious…
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Who was the subject’s general practitioner?When was the subject’s last appointment with his general practitioner?Do the general practice records refer to the subject’s mental state at any time?Is there a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder?Who made the diagnosis?When was the diagnosis made?Where was the diagnosis made?Was there a care plan?Who was the key worker?What was…
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To be or not to be, that is the question.To be in a world of one’s own, rather than not to be in the world of another, that is an answer. The consulting room is a place to be, and a place to remember having been, the more so with the therapist’s salutation: “Having reflected…
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Exposure of fantasies in medical research and in psychiatric research.
Audience effects on food caching in grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis): evidence for pilferage avoidance strategies, brain scan, brain-waves, criticism of peer review, critique of peer review, Diagnostic stability of psychiatric disorders in clinical practice, dominance hierarchy, DSM, EEG, electroencephalograph, ESS, evolutionarily stable strategy, exploitation, false positive result, fluoxetine, Heschl’s gyrus, ICD, intimation, lasers, lithium salts, masking procedures, MRI, peer review system, prozac, research bias, The Dominance Hierarchy and the Evolution of Mental Illness, The Link Between Structural and Functional Brain Abnormalities in Depression: A Systematic Review of Multimodal Neuroimaging Studies, transverse temporal gyrus, unreliable psychiatric diagnoses, vocalisation, Wikipedia: can eeg diagnose a mood disorder?The risk of accepting a psychiatric diagnosis is illustrated by the variant of ‘depression’, which is due to excessive inhibition in unequal relationships. Medical training conditions doctors to focus on the individual, but psychiatry requires a wider view of family and colleagues. Administrators have a bureaucratic wish to oversimplify what is complex. Psychiatrists have exaggerated…
To be or not to be. 