Definition that contains atry
- defense (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
- resistance (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
- shrink a physician who specializes in psychiatry
- psychiatrist a physician who specializes in psychiatry
- defence (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
- anxiety (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic
- compensation (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
- psychiatric relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry
- denial (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
- isolation (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it