Author: Glossary

Conducted from september 1990 through february 1992; the first nationally representative mental health survey in the united states to use a fully structured research diagnostic interview to assess the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in a community setting.  

An organization whose members are parents and relatives of mentally ill patients and former patients whose main objective is for better and more sustained care. Its trustees and chapter officers engage in active lobbying and in education projects.  

Brand name for the monoamine oxidase inhibitor (maoi) antidepressant phenelzine. A commercial preparation of phenelzine.  

Agents structurally similar to the opioids and probably occupying the same receptor sites in the central nervous system (CNS). In sufficient doses, they block the effects of opiate drugs by competing for the opioid receptor sites. If given after opiate dependence has developed, these agents will precipitate an acute abstinence syndrome.  

Psychotherapeutic treatment occurring under partial anesthesia, such as that induced by barbiturates, which is now rarely used. Originally used to treat acute mental disorders occurring in a military combat setting. A psychotherapeutic procedure in which the person is under the influence of some hypnotic drug, e.g., sodium amytal.  

Stupor of varying depth induced by certain drugs. A state of lowered consciousness induced by a drug. State of stupor caused by narcotic drugs. A state of diminished consciousness or complete unconsciousness caused by the use of *narcotic drugs, which have a depressant action on the nervous system. The body’s normal reactions to stimuli are…

A dyssomnia consisting of irresistible attacks of refreshing sleep during the day, cataplexy (sudden bilateral loss of muscle tone) typically associated with intense emotion, and recurrent intrusions of rem sleep into the transition between sleep and wakefulness. Uncontrollable, recurrent, brief episodes of sleep associated with excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexp, sleep paralysis, hppnagogic hallucinations, and often…

In Heinz Kohut’s (1913–1981) self psychology, aggression in a person reacting to breakdowns in crucial self-serving mental images that have been revealed to be false. Two examples of conditions that can provoke such behavior are deflation of infantile grandiosity or traumatic disappointment in idealized figures. The aggression may range from mild annoyance to intense and violent…

Self-love as opposed to object-love (love of another person). To be distinguished from egotism, which carries the connotation of self-centeredness, selfishness, and conceit. Egotism is but one expression of narcissism. Revisions in psychoanalytic theory (self psychology) have viewed the concept of narcissism in less pathological terms. Excessive self-love. Sexual excitement through admiration of one’s own…

Brand name (now discontinued) for the opioid antagonist drug naloxone. A commercial preparation of naloxone.