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Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

Contributors in Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Play therapy

Psychology; Psychiatry

Generally employed with children aged 3 through 11 and provides a way for them to express their experiences and feelings through a natural, self-guided, self-healing process

Phobia

Psychology; Psychiatry

An irrational, intense and persistent fear of certain situations, activities, things, animals, or people

Personality disorder

Psychology; Psychiatry

Fixed, rigid, and ingrained patterns of relating to others that limit effective functioning and impair relationships and are usu. at odds with basic values of one's culture or community

Reactance

Psychology; Psychiatry

An emotional reaction in direct contradiction to rules or regulations that threaten or eliminate specific behavioural freedoms

Rage

Psychology; Psychiatry

A mental state that is one extreme of the intensity spectrum of anger

Psychodynamics

Psychology; Psychiatry

The systematic study and theory of the psychological forces that underlie human behaviour

Psyche

Psychology; Psychiatry

Refers to the forces in an individual that influence thought, behaviour and personality

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