psychoanalysis

Mental mechanisms.

Feb 16, 2025

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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 study

Mental 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…
To be or not to be.

Oct 21, 2024

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autism, borderline state, containment, counter-transference, psychic retreat, psychoanalysis, retreat, schizoid fantasy, Some aspects of interviewing technique and their relationship with the transference, to be or not to be, transference

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…
Figures of speech, periphrases, parapraxes, and solecisms.

Jul 28, 2024

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adaptation, adaptive simulation, altruism, Batesian mimicry, bona fide, borrow (linguistics), Cellular networks underlying human spatial navigation, chlorobutanol, Choosing Where to Attend and the Medial Frontal Cortex: An fMRI Study Journal of Neurophysiology, circumlocution, Comparison of the Distributions of Urocortin Containing and Cholinergic Neurons in the Perioculomotor Midbrain of the Cat and Macaque, cooperation, Diagnostic Yield of Chromosomal Microarray Analysis in a Cohort of Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorders from a Highly Consanguineous Population, disambiguation of kindling, euphemism, excitement, Experimental peripheral administration of oxytocin elevates a suite of cooperative behaviours in a wild social mammal, figures of speech, fluctuating asymmetry, Freudian slip, frontal, genetics, group selection, Hamilton’s rule, head direction cells, How many for dinner? Recruitment and monitoring by glances in capuchins, human oestrus, hyperbole, hypomania, inclusive fitness, Intrasexual competition and sexual selection in cooperative mammals, litotes, loanword, malapropism, mania, mathematics, Müllerian mimicry, metaphor, metonymy, misnomer, oxymoron, oxytocin, parapraxis, Perioculomotor cell groups in monkey and man defined by their histochemical and functional properties: Reappraisal of the Edinger-Westphal nucleus, periphrasis, place cells, prefrontal, psychoanalysis, refractory period, Secondary sex ratios and male lifespan: Damaged or culled cohorts, Selfishness as second-order altruism, signal-to-noise-ratio, solecism, Spatial remapping of touch: Confusion of perceived stimulus order across hand and foot, tautology, taxi, The evolutionary diagnosis of mental disorder, The future of theoretical evolutionary game theory, The Royal Society, Tracking the Fear Engram: The Lateral Amygdala Is an Essential Locus of Fear Memory Storage, underdiagnosis, understatement

Figures of speech are inadvertent social information about the user until proven otherwise: they are particularly misplaced at work, where they reduce signal relative to noise, usually because the operative wishes to bring something of himself or herself to the format. The use of metaphor indicates lack of substance until proven otherwise, such as advising…
A description of mental health for any moment.

Jul 21, 2024

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agreement between experts indicates validity, assortativity, Bion, blushing, Churchillian, circadian, circumlocution, clique, cricket, defensive genetics, diurnal, diurnal variation in mood, divorce, Dunbar’s number, elite, elitism, emotionality, empathy, erubescence, escapism, estrogen, Evidence for Joint Encoding of Motion and Disparity in Human Visual Perception, free will, game theory, hebdomadal, Hillsborough, hormones, inadvertent social information, information silo, irritable male syndrome, jargon, Libet, lunar, Marylebone Cricket Club, MCC, men’s liberation movement, mental health, mental health now, mentalize, modulation, module, necessary and sufficient, neologisms, Norman Bettison, objectivity, opportunism, personality disorder, premenstrual tension, progesterone, prolactin, pseudo-conversation, psychoanalysis, readiness potential, regression., seasonal, seasonal affective disorder, sect, sexual equality, sexual selection, simulation, social enquiries, social media, social principles, The Royal Society, theory of mind, Time of conscious intention to act in relation to onset of cerebral activity (readiness-potential) The unconscious initiation of a freely voluntary act, ultradian, vulnerable to spin bowling, women’s liberation, Yorkshire Cricket Club

Mental health is the capacity to review independently one’s mental state as it is perceived by others. One may have the capacity to review independently one’s mental state as it is perceived by others, but one may choose not to use it.Blushing signals that one cares about how one is perceived by others. Theory of…