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| 6693984326 | narcissistic personality disorder | characterized by a lack of ability to empathize with others and a desire to keep the focus on themselves at all times | 0 | |
| 6693943083 | DSM-5 | the primary book used in diagnosing psychological problems | 1 | |
| 6693944862 | Social Anxiety Disorder | typically are terrified of how others will perceive them, and this often leads to avoidance of various situations | 2 | |
| 6693944863 | Phobia | An irrational and excessive fear of an object or situation | 3 | |
| 6693946979 | Agoraphobia | Involves intense fear and anxiety of any place or situation where escape might be difficult | 4 | |
| 6693950140 | Post-traumatic stress disorder | triggered by a terrifying event — either experiencing it or witnessing it. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety | 5 | |
| 6693950141 | generalized anxiety disorder | a person feels tense and apprehensive on a very regular occassion | 6 | |
| 6693952995 | panic disorder | characterized by uncontrollable episodes of fear and its physical manifestations, such as heart palpitations, sweating, and dizziness | 7 | |
| 6693953017 | obsessive-compulsive disorder | an anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations, or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something | 8 | |
| 6693957927 | dissociative disorders | conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity, or perception | 9 | |
| 6693960610 | somatic-symptom disorder | involves being distressed or having one's life disrupted by concerns involving physical symptoms when there is no obvious physical or medical cause for the symptoms | 10 | |
| 6693962527 | illness anxiety disorder | involve preoccupation with the idea that you're seriously ill, based on normal body sensations (such as a noisy stomach) | 11 | |
| 6693962528 | conversion disorder | condition in which you show psychological stress in physical ways | 12 | |
| 6693966727 | rumination | Obsessive thoughts concerning extreme, recurring ideas or concepts that interrupt other types of cognitive actions | 13 | |
| 6693966728 | anorexia nervosa | pathological loss of appetite and self induced limiting of food intake | 14 | |
| 6693968515 | fugue | Describes a psychiatric disorder that involves memory loss and travel | 15 | |
| 6693968516 | dissociative identity disorder | two or more distinct identities, or personality states, are present in—and alternately take control of—an individual | 16 | |
| 6693972057 | schizophrenia | includes hearing internal voices, thinking that other people are reading one's mind, controlling one's thoughts, or plotting harm, which may leave a person feeling fearful and withdrawn | 17 | |
| 6693972058 | major depressive disorder | people have periods of hopelessness and sadness that last for more than 2 weeks and don't appear to have a specific cause | 18 | |
| 6693975859 | seasonal affective disorder | a type of depression that follows the seasons | 19 | |
| 6693975860 | bipolar disorder | characterized by serious and significant mood swings | 20 | |
| 6693979388 | delusions | false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur | 21 | |
| 6693979389 | hallucination | experience of perceiving objects or events that do not have an external source, such as hearing one's name called by a voice that no one else seems to hear | 22 | |
| 6693982032 | dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia | argues that the unusual behavior and experiences associated with schizophrenia can be fully or largely explained by changes in dopamine function in the brain | 23 | |
| 6693984327 | bulimia nervosa | People with this eating disorder engage in binge eating and purging behaviors | 24 | |
| 6693991017 | binge-eating disorder | characterized by a loss of control over eating behaviors. The binge eater consumes unnaturally large amounts of food in a short time period | 25 | |
| 6693994177 | anxiety disorder | The class of disorders containing any disorder in which anxiety is the primary feature | 26 | |
| 6693998874 | lobotomy | a type of psychosurgery in which the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the parts of the brain that control emotions are severed | 27 | |
| 6693998875 | psychotherapy | A process whereby psychological problems are treated through communication and relationship factors between an individual and a therapist | 28 | |
| 6694004058 | tardive dyskinesia | a nervous system disorder that results in repetitive, involuntary body movements | 29 | |
| 6694007627 | biomedical therapy | physical or medical treatments such as drug therapy that are used to treat mental or psychological disorders | 30 | |
| 6694007628 | paranoid personality disorder | Excessive distrust and suspicion | 31 | |
| 6713292261 | antisocial personality disorder | characterized by a long-standing pattern of disregard for other people's rights, often crossing the line and violating those rights | 32 | |
| 6713295350 | rosenhan study | a famous experiment done in order to determine the validity of psychiatric diagnosis | 33 | |
| 6713301381 | aaron beck | regarded as the father of cognitive therapy and his pioneering theories are widely used in the treatment of clinical depression | 34 | |
| 6713307432 | histrionic personality disorder | characterized by a long-standing pattern of attention seeking behavior and extreme emotionality | 35 | |
| 6713307433 | obsessive-compulsive personality disorder | characterized by a preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency | 36 | |
| 6713315002 | systematic desensitization | 37 | ||
| 6713315003 | aversive conditioning | process by which an unwanted behavior is paired with a noxious or unpleasant stimulus, with the intention to reduce the undesired behavior | 38 | |
| 6713319494 | psychoanalysis | concentrates on bringing forward repressed unconscious thoughts | 39 | |
| 6713319495 | free association | Method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing | 40 | |
| 6713320668 | resistance | somewhat disruptive response by the client to some topic they find sensitive | 41 | |
| 6713320669 | transference | phenomenon where patients undergoing clinical therapy begin to transfer their feelings of a particular person in their lives to the therapist | 42 | |
| 6713325878 | counterconditioning | type of therapy based on the principles of classical conditioning that attempts to replace bad or unpleasant emotional responses to a stimulus with more pleasant, adaptive responses | 43 | |
| 6713325879 | active listening | involves a person (typically a therapist) listening to a person and then responding to the person using techniques such as paraphrasing | 44 | |
| 6713329417 | antianxiety drugs | 45 | ||
| 6713333075 | client-centered therapy (person-centered therapy) | 46 | ||
| 6713333076 | exposure therapies | 47 | ||
| 6713335239 | gestalt therapy | 48 | ||
| 6713341858 | electroconvulsive therapy | 49 | ||
| 6713342928 | psychosurgery | 50 | ||
| 6713342929 | token economy | 51 | ||
| 6713346132 | attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | 52 | ||
| 6713346133 | meta-analysis | 53 | ||
| 6713348627 | cognitive behavioral therapy | 54 | ||
| 6713348628 | rational emotive behavior therapy | 55 | ||
| 6713351772 | group therapy | 56 | ||
| 6713354472 | repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation | 57 | ||
| 6713356226 | psychopharmacology | 58 | ||
| 6713357671 | antipsychotic drugs | 59 | ||
| 6713368331 | antidepressant drugs | 60 | ||
| 6713372901 | dependent personality disorder | 61 |
