Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A projective technique that requires the person to look at inkblots and describe what is seen.  

A program in which the mother is allowed to keep her newborn baby in her hospital room most of the day rather than in a hospital nursery.  

A tendency to sway when the eyes are closed and the feet are placed close together. The diagnostic indication of locomotor ataxia. A swaying of the body or falling when standing with the feet close together and the eyes closed, the result of loss of the joint position sense. Swaying of the patient when standing…

An intense emotional feeling for another person based on self-constructed illusions about that person, limerance involves drastic mood swings, palpitations of the heart, and intrusive thinking about the person.  

In sexuality, a reference to orgies.  

A strip of rolled up material of variable widths used for bandaging a wound or other open lesion.  

The identified responsibilities and functions of a professional role which must be carried out through application of identified skills and knowledge role delineation.  

A method of research or therapy in which a person is asked to assume a part or a role. The act of pretending to be somebody else in a situation, so that you have to imagine how that person feels and thinks. It usually involves several people. It is used in many training exercises and…

A mission of health within a person’s life cycle.  

A condition pertaining to when the social role of a person is no longer of importance to the social group.