A personality disorder diagnosed when a person lacks a conscience and empathy, is manipulative, and is likely a criminal.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
100
A person has one of these when their distress seems greatly out of proportion to the situation at hand.
What is an anxiety disorder?
100
Therapy based on the principle that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
What is Gestalt therapy?
100
The use of prescription medications to treat psychological conditions.
What is pharmacotherapy?
100
The therapeutic approach from the stone ages that bored a hole in a patient's head to relieve pressure and release evil spirits.
What is trepanning?
200
When a person has this personality disorder, they want to be adored. They think they are wonderful, brilliant, and very important.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
200
Literally means fear of open places or market.
What is agoraphobia?
200
A type of humanistic therapy that asks questions about death, the meaning of life, and free will.
What is existential therapy?
200
Treatment for severe depression involving an electrical current passing through the brain.
What is electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock therapy, or shock therapy?
200
Freud's psychoanalytic tool involving saying whatever comes to mind without self-censorship.
What is free association?
300
A personality disorder characterized by dramatic and flamboyant looks and behavior. These people exaggerate their emotions to get attention from others. Their unconscious agenda is to elicit favors by being attractive, entertaining, or ill.
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
300
An intense, irrational fear of being observed, evaluated, humiliated, or embarrassed by others in social situations.
What is a Social Phobia?
300
A reward system used in an institutional setting to reward positive behaviors and punish negative behaviors by giving or taking a poker chip.
What is a token economy?
300
A lobotomy is an example of this physical alteration of the brain.
What is psychosurgery?
300
A type of behavior modification used to extinguish a behavior, such as taking a medication to make yourself nauseous when you drink alcohol.
What is aversion therapy?
400
A personality type characterized by a need for order, perfection, control, and rigid routine. They have the hidden agenda of following all rules and avoiding blame.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder?
400
Negatively reinforcing irrational acts that a person feels compelled to repeat against his/her will to relieve the anxiety caused by their unwanted thoughts.
What is a compulsion?
400
A category of therapies that involves identifying and changing negative thinking patterns.
What is cognitive therapy?
400
Role reversal and mirror technique are used during this aspect of group therapy.
What is psychodrama?
400
The movement to shut down mental hospitals and get people into the community in the 1970s.
What is deinstitutionalization?
500
Childhood history of emotional deprivation, neglect, and physical abuse. Also, under-arousal of the brain.
What are possible causes for Antisocial Personality Disorder?
500
Fear of the dark.
What is nyctophobia?
500
A nondirective therapy based on insights from conscious thoughts developed by Carl Rogers.
What is Client-Centered Therapy?
500
Therapy involving progressively exposing a phobic person to their fears.
What is desensitization?
500
A psychotic condition caused by eating from affected grain fields in the middle ages.