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  Psychiatrist Terms & Definitions  
 

Heritability
How much genetics contributes to the variation of a disease or trait in a population at a given point in time.

Personality
Enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself.

Diagnosis
The identification of a disease or condition through analysis and examination

Abreaction
An emotional release or discharge after recalling a painful experience that has been repressed because it was not consciously tolerable.

Biopsychosocial
Factors involved in the causes, manifestation, course, and outcome of health and disease,including mental disorders

Hallucinations
When an individual experiences a sensory impression that has no basis in reality.

Abstract Attitude
This is a type of thinking that includes voluntarily shifting ones mind set from a specific aspect of a situation to the general aspect It involves keeping in mind different simultaneous aspects of a situation while grasping the essentials of the situation.

Compensation
A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, by which one attempts to make up for real or fancied deficiencies.

Organic mental disorders
Psychological or behavioral abnormalities associated with a dysfunction of the brain.

Primary Physican
The physician rendering the major portion of care or having primary responsibility for care of the major condition or diagnosis


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Treatment of mental illness worth the investment
Without treatment the consequences of mental illness for the individual and society are staggering: unnecessary disability, unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness, inappropriate incarceration, suicide and wasted lives; The economic cost of untreated mental illness is more than 100 billion dollars each year in the United States.
 


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Compensation
A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, by which one attempts to make up for real or fancied deficiencies.

Denial
A defense mechanism where certain information is not accessed by the conscious mind. Denial is related to repression, a similar defense mechanism, but denial is more pronounced or intense.

Insomnia
A subjective complaint of difficulty falling or staying asleep or poor sleep quality.

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