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A defense mechanism in which a person consciously or, usually, unconsciously over-estimates an attribute or an aspect of another person.
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Misinterpretation of incidents and events in the outside world as having a direct personal reference to oneself. Occasionally, observed in normal persons, ideas of reference are frequently seen in paranoid patients.
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Part of Freud's concept of the psychic apparatus. According to his structural theory of mental functioning, the id harbors the energy that stems from the instinctual drives and desires of a person. The id is completely in the unconscious realm, unorganized and under the influence of the primary
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14-07-2006
A neurosis that occurs in response to emotional stress and involves a sudden loss of impairment of function. It may be of the conversion type, in which the senses of the voluntary nervous system are involved, or of the dissociative type, in which the person's state of consciousness is affected.
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Exaggerated concern with one's physical health. The concern is not based on real organic pathology.
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14-07-2006
Artificially induced alterations of consciousness of one person by another. The subject responds with a high degree of suggestibility, both mental and physical, during the trance-like state.
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