Category: W

A pathological retreat from people or the world of reality, often seen in schizophrenia. A loss of interest in having contact with other people, which leads to a person becoming isolate. A period during which a person who has been addicted to a drug stops taking it and experiences unpleasant symptoms. Group of symptoms the…

American psychiatrist famous for his early support of psychoanalysis and his contributions to forensic psychiatry.  

Dutch physician who was one of the first to devote his major interest to psychiatric disorders. Regarded by some as the founder of modern psychiatry.  

A disease of central nervous system metabolism due to a lack of vitamin B1 (thiamine) seen in chronic alcoholism. Wernicke’s disease features irregularities of eye movements, in-coordination, impaired thinking, and often sensorimotor deficits. Korsakoff’s psychosis is characterized by confabulation and, more importantly, by a short-term, but not immediate, disturbance that leads to gross impairment in…

A group of Freud’s fol- lowers and students who formed the basis of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.  

American psychologist; the founder of the behaviorism school of psychology.  

Austrian psychiatrist who won the Nobel Prize in 1927 for research in using malaria inoculation and other artificially induced fevers in treating syphilis of the central nervous system.  

German psychoanalyst who emigrated to the United States in 1939; noted for his emphasis on the necessity of free expression of sexual libido during orgasm (orgone) as a cure for neurosis. An Austrian physician and psychiatrist (an early associate of Sigmund Freud), who fled the Nazis, settling first in Norway, then from 1939 teaching at…