A repetitive activity, usually a distorted or stereotyped elaboration of some routine of daily life, employed to relieve anxiety. Most commonly seen in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Berne’s term for a form of long-term coping that consists of shallow exchanges between people.
A detailed, prescribed order of actions; may be religious, personal, or part of psychiatric disorders such as obsessive compulsive disorder.
A customary or prescribed procedure of special, often social or religious, significance.