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Psychiatry
The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders
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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
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
