Among the specific human fears that are considered irrational (unmotivated) and are called phobias, one stands out: fear of relationships or fear of emotional attachment.
A scientifically recognized phobia in which a person experiences an irrational, uncontrollable fear or dread of work is called ergophobia or ergasiophobia.
Pathological perseveration is often observed in patients with organic brain damage, cerebral atherosclerosis, schizophrenia, senile dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Pick's disease.
What is the correct name for the fear of insects and beetles (coleoptera)? Most experts define a persistent irrational (unfounded) fear of insects as entomophobia: from the Greek words entomon (insect) and phobos (fear).
One of the types of anxiety personality disorder is anankastic disorder. Let's consider the features of this condition, its symptoms, causes, and treatment methods.
Catatonic agitation is a type of hyperkinetic acute psychosis with specific manifestations: motor restlessness is characterized by chaos, lack of purposefulness, stereotypical, sometimes fanciful movements, meaningless and incoherent speech.
Many terms that are actively used in psychology remain incomprehensible to ordinary people who are not related to medicine and psychotherapy. For example, most of us have heard of such a concept as "prostration", but what does it mean?
True oneiroid is a mental disorder, a form of altered consciousness, most often of endogenous-organic origin. It is characterized by pronounced productive symptoms in the form of an influx of vivid scene-like images
American psychiatry diagnoses this phenomenon as dissociative identity disorder. The current ICD-10 classification calls a similar condition "multiple personality disorder" and classifies it with other dissociative (conversion) disorders, without isolating it as a separate nosology.
