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arrow Overdetermination:

14-07-2006
The ascribing of many meanings of a dream or neurotic symptom.
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arrow Overcompensation:

14-07-2006
The process by which a person exaggerates his power and dominance in an effort to make up for real or imagined inadequacies or feelings of inferiority.
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arrow Orthopsychiatry:

14-07-2006
A combined mental hygiene approach using psychiatry, psychology and other sciences to promote healthy emotional development and growth.
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arrow Orientation:

14-07-2006
State of awareness of one's relationships and surroundings in terms of time, place and person.
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arrow Operant conditioning:

14-07-2006
A term introduced by psychologist 8.F. Skinner to describe the process by which learning or behavioral change takes place as a result of reinforcing spontaneous behavior.
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arrow Oedipus complex:

14-07-2006
A distinct group of associated ideas aims instinctual drives and fears that are generally observed in children when they are from 3-6 years of age. During this period, which coincides with the peak of the phallic phase of psychosexual development, the child's sexual interest is attached chiefly to
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