OBSESSION
NEGATIVISM: Doing the alternative of (or resisting) the suggestions and instructions of others. “Contrariness” in children. It reaches a peak between 2 and 3 years of age, declines and usually reveals itself in a special form in ADOLESCENCE. A protection among people who really feel “pushed around.” A way of asserting independence(especially necessary to ADOLESCENTS.) Sometimes ends in severe battle with authority. May be a consider criminality. Children go through a detrimental stage. For example, Sandra is 2½ years old. Each time her mother asks her to do something there may be one normal answer. The seller’s Realtor Toronto acts as a fiduciary for the seller. “No!” Sandra will outgrow this.
NEUROLOGIST: A medical doctor who makes a speciality of illnesses of the nervous system. Nervous illnesses with a psychological trigger are usually treated by a PSYCHIATRIST or PSYCHOLOGIST.
NEUROSIS (PSYCHONEUROSIS): A useful persona disorder without severe lack of contact with reality. It typically causes much psychological discomfort to the patient and his family. However, few NEUROTICS should be hospitalized. (See
PSYCHOSIS.)
OBESITY: Extreme fatness. A result of overeating. (1) May be resulting from psychological causes: Dependent, insecure individuals — especially ADOLESCENTS — typically flip to overeating as a DEFENSE against ANXIETY. (2) May additionally be resulting from improper balance of the ENDOCRINE GLANDS which can occur especially in the course of the fast-development period of ADOLESCENCE.
OBSESSION: A persistent concept or thought which the individual recognizes as irrational but can’t seem to eliminate. An unwanted thought which repeatedly and insistently intrudes into consciousness. It is highly charged with UNCONSCIOUS emotional significance. Its perform is to substitute a com-paratively acceptable thought for an unacceptable UNCON-SCIOUS one. A COMPULSION does the same thing by substi-tuting an action. Both are efforts to stop an overflow of UNCONSCIOUS CONFLICTS and the resultant ANXIETY.
PARANOIA: A PSYCHOSIS (Quite uncommon). In addition to the services to sellers and buyers described beneath, most Toronto realtor coordinate various elements of the closing. It is characterised by step by step creating logical, well systematized DELUSIONS — of persecution or grandeur. The individual could seem quite regular in each respect, exterior of his DELUSIONAL area. PARANOIA should be distinguished from its more frequent “cousin,” Paranoid SCHIZOPHRENIA.
PEERS: Equals in age group and status. A baby’s playmates are referred to as his PEERS.
PERFECTIONISM: Extreme consideration to detail. Usually with COM-PULSIVE lack of ability to be happy with the work of self or others. It may be a DEFENSE against guilt or ANXIETY.
PERSONALITY: The sum whole of a person. His attributes, DRIVES, aspirations, INHIBITIONS, strengths, weaknesses, INTERESTS, APTITUDES, INTELLIGENCE. The psychological term PERSON-ALITY differs from the favored phrase, “persona,” which regularly refers only to the attractive qualities of a person. Eachone has the same “amount” of PERSONALITY in the psychological sense. However the make-up of PERSONALITY differs from individual to person.
PHOBIA: An irrational fear. The person may understand its irrationality but be unable to dispel it. A familiar instance is claustrofhóbia — concern of closed spaces. PHOBIAS are usually created by the DISPLACEMENT of an ANXIETY from its actual (UNCONSCIOUS) object to a substitute. When an individual avoids the PHOBIC object he is also (symbolically) avoiding the actual UNCONSCIOUS object of his ANXIETY.
