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arrow Schizophrenia:

14-07-2006
Mental disorder of a psychotic level, characterized by disturbances in thinking, mood and behavior. The thinking disturbance is manifested by a distortion of reality, especially by delusions and hallucinations, accompanied by a fragmentation associations that results in incoherent speech. The mood
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arrow Schizoid personality:

14-07-2006
A personality disorder in which the person is shy, oversensitive and sometimes eccentric. People with schizoid & personalities are usually detached and seemingly unemotional in the face of upsetting events and experiences.
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arrow Sadomasochistic relationship:

14-07-2006
Relationship in which the enjoyment of suffering by one person and the enjoyment of inflicting pain by the other person are important and complementary attractions in their ongoing relationship.
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arrow Sadism:

14-07-2006
A sexual deviation is which sexual gratification is achieved by inflictii1i] pain and humiliation on the partner.
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arrow Role-playing:

14-07-2006
Psychodrama technique in which a person is trained to function more effectively in his reality roles, such as employer, employee, student and instructor. In the therapeutic setting of psychodrama. the protagonist is free to try and to fail in his role, for he is given the opportunity to try again
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arrow Retardation:

14-07-2006
Slowness of development or progress. In psychiatry, there are two types, mental retardation and psychomotor retardation. Mental retardation refers to slowness or arrest of intellectual maturation. Psychomotor retardation refers to slowness or slackened psychic activity or motor activity or both, it
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