What's My Diagnosis?
Excessive worry occurring more days than not for at least 6 months, about a number of activities, that is difficult to control.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
An inability to recall important autobiographical information that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.
This 1999 M. Night Shyamalan film stars Bruce Willis as a child psychologist whose patient tells him that "I see dead people".
What is The Sixth Sense?
Possibly the most famous therapist in history, who is known for his ideas regarding defense mechanisms, dream analysis, and the Oedipus complex.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Used in research studies to determine the efficacy of a specific medication, this is the sugar pill given to the control group that has no physical effect.
What is a Placebo?
Recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal objects that are not needed for personal use or for their monetary value.
What is Kleptomania?
A false belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly held despite incontrovertible and obvious proof to the contrary.
What is a Delusion?
This Cheers spin-off TV series features a psychiatrist who has his own radio call-in show in Seattle.
What is Frasier?
This projective psychological test involves the client describing what they see in various inkblots.
What is the Rorschach Test?
Ivan Pavlov was studying this concept when he conducted experiments to get his dogs to salivate at the ring of a bell.
What is Classical Conditioning?
Recurrent episodes of binge eating and recurrent inappropriate compensatory behaviors in order to prevent weight gain.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
A mental state of elevated, expansive, or irritable mood and persistently increased level of activity or energy.
What is Mania?
This 1997 film stars Robin William as a therapist and psychology professor who helps a troubled, self-taught genius working as a janitor at MIT work through his traumatic upbringing.
What is Good Will Hunting?
This historical treatment involved electrically inducing seizures in the brain that was used to treat depression, mania, and schizophrenia.
What is Electroshock or Electroconvulsive Therapy?
According to research done on our inherent negativity bias, this is the number of positive things that are needed to outweigh a single negative thing in our minds.
What is Five?
Disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states which involves marked discontinuity in one's sense of self and agency.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, or according to rules that must be applied rigidly.
What is a Compulsion?
This TV series features an obsessive-compulsive police consultant played by Tony Shalhoub who regularly solved the murder of the week during his therapy sessions.
What is Monk?
This modern therapy gets its name from the connection and interaction between our thoughts and behaviors.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
No one born blind has ever developed this mental health disorder.
What is Schizophrenia?
There is a history of conduct disorder and a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since the age of 15 years old.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Persistent eating of nonfood substances that contain no nutritional value.
What is Pica?
This 2010 Martin Scorsese film set in 1954 features a US Marshal, played by Leo DiCaprio, investigating a psychiatric facility after one of the patients goes missing on this titular island.
What is Shutter Island?
This modern form of therapy involves focusing on traumatic memories, in a manner similar to exposure therapy, while engaging in side-to-side eye movements or other forms of bilateral stimulation.
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)?
This debunked theory claimed that the measurement of bumps on the skull was able to predict mental traits and faculties.
What is Phrenology?