The study of the origins of disease: physical, mental or emotional.

In PSYCHOANALYSIS, the regulation of the REPRESSED material in the UNCONSCIOUS to see that nothing threatening to the EGO is allowed to escape into CONSCIOUSNESS. Censorship is apparently relaxed during sleep when repressed material is expressed in the form of DREAMS.

From the Latin for ‘about a day’, this refers to those BIORHYTHMS which function on roughly a 24-hour cycle, like sleeping and changes in body temperature and blood pressure.

See BATTLE FATIGUE.

A PHOBIA of confined spaces.

A combination of applied CLINICAL and SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY that attempts to foster the well-being of psychologically disturbed people by intervening in their social environment and utilising the resources of their community to help them adapt.

 This scale is comprised of the following subscales: Is a personality measure of the traits associated with the authoritatrian. It is comprised of the following subscales

* Conventionalism * Authoritarian Submission * Authoritarian Aggression * Anti-Intraception * Substitution and Stereotypy * Power and Toughness * Destructiveness and Cynicism * Projectivity * Sex

Also see, F-SCALE.

See CHUNKING.

Hormone secreted by the adrenal glands (which are situated on top of the kidneys) in times of emergency or excitement.

Adrenaline increases the heart rate, the blood supply and the sugar supply from the liver into the blood stream and alerts the muscles to impulses from the nervous system, thereby getting the organism ready for ‘FIGHT OR FLIGHT REACTION ‘ when STRESS is experienced.

Also called EPINEPHRINE.

A term used with many shades of meaning and in many different areas of PSYCHOLOGY. It is generally held to be an unpleasant emotional state resulting from STRESS or conflict and characterised by fear and apprehension. If the fear and apprehension are vague and not attached to a specific object, or if they seem excessive, the anxiety is considered NEUROTIC.