| 1. | D | The determination that a set of symptoms or problems of a patient indicates a particular disorder. Label affixed to a set of symptoms that tend to occur together. |
| 2. | Da Costas syndrome | “soldier’s heart”; Neurocirculatory asthenia; a functional disorder of the circulatory system that is usually part of an anxiety state or secondary to hyperventilation. |
| 3. | Dacryphilia | Dacryphilia (also called dacrylagnia) is a form of paraphilia in which one is aroused by tears or sobbing. Dacryphilia is primarily associated with males. The term covers all forms of More… 1.4 KB |
| 4. | Dactology | The art of communication by names of signs made with the fingers. |
| 5. | Dadaism movement | Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art More… 0.8 KB |
| 6. | Daisy chaining | A daisy chain refers to sexual relations among three or more people, with each person both performing and receiving oral sex simultaneously. Some sources consider only groups of five or more More… 0.5 KB |
| 7. | Daltonism | an old name for red-green color blindness, after John Dalton (1766-1844), a chemist, who sufered this defect and was the first to describe it. |
| 8. | Damping | The checking or attentuation of vibrations in a sounding body by internal and external friction. |
| 9. | Dance therapy | Dance therapy, or dance movement therapy is the psychotherapeutic use of movement and dance for emotional, cognitive, social, behavioural and physical conditions. Dance movement therapy More… 1.6 KB |
| 10. | Dancing mania | An epidemic of obsessive dancing which has appeared from time to time in Europe, notably following the black Death. |
| 11. | Dangerousness to others | Legal criterion for involuntary commitment that is met when a person would pose a threat or danger to other people if not incarcerated. |
| 12. | Dangerousness to self | Legal criterion for involuntary commitment that is met when a person is imminently suicidal or a danger to him- or herself as judged by a mental health professional. |
| 13. | Daniel C. Batson | (born 1943) is an American social psychologist. He holds both doctoral degrees in Theology (from Princeton Theological Seminary) and Psychology (from Princeton University's Department More… 2.8 KB |
| 14. | Daniel Dennett | (born March 28, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly More… 8.4 KB |
| 15. | Daniel Goleman | Daniel Goleman (born March 7, 1946) is an internationally renowned author, psychologist, and science journalist, and for twelve years wrote for the New York Times, specializing in psychology More… 5.7 KB |
| 16. | Daniel Schacter | (* June, 17 1952 in New York) is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. His research has focused on psychological and biological aspects of human memory and amnesia, with a More… 1.6 KB |
| 17. | Daniel Stern | Daniel N. Stern (Aug 16, 1934 in New York) is a prominent psychoanalytic theorist, specializing in infant development. He is the author of a number of books on the subject, notably The More… 1.5 KB |
| 18. | Daniel X Freedman | Daniel X Freedman (1921–1993) was a psychiatrist and educator, pioneer in biological psychiatry. Born in Lafayette, Indiana, he performed pioneering studies in the relationship between drugs More… 0.4 KB |
| 19. | Danish philosophy | Danish philosophy has a long tradition as part of Western philosophy. Perhaps the most influential Danish philosopher was Soren Aabye Kierkegaard, the creator of Christian existentialism, More… 1.2 KB |
| 20. | Dark adaptation | A process of rod adjutment whereby the retina becomes over a million times more sensitive to dim light. The process depends upon the resynthesis of visual purple, a rod-stimulating More… 0.4 KB |
| 21. | David C. McClelland | (May 20, 1917–March 1998) was an American psychological theorist. Noted for his work on achievement motivation and the conciousness, he published a number of works from the 1950s until the More… 0.8 KB |
| 22. | David D. Burns | An American best selling author and an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has also served as Visiting Scholar More… 3.6 KB |
| 23. | David Wechsler | (January 12, 1896 - May 2, 1981) was a leading American psychologist. He developed well-known intelligence scales, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) and the Wechsler More… 2.6 KB |
| 24. | Day blindness | An Abnormality of the foveal region of the retina in which the individual sees better in deem light. In such cases the individual finds bright light uncomfortable. |
| 25. | Daydream | A visionary fantasy experienced while awake, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions.There are so many different types of daydreaming that there is still no consensus More… 3.0 KB |