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Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) is a form of short-term psychotherapy developed through empirical, video-recorded research by Habib Davanloo. [1]The therapy's primary goal is to help the patient overcome internal resistance to experiencing true feelings about the present and past which have been warded off because they are either too frightening or too painful.
Prolonged grief disorder (PGD), also known as complicated grief (CG), [1] traumatic grief (TG) [2] and persistent complex bereavement disorder (PCBD) in the DSM-5, [3] is a mental disorder consisting of a distinct set of symptoms following the death of a family member or close friend (i.e. bereavement).
According to the United States Transgender Survey (USTS), 37.6% of the transgender community reported missing or avoiding preventative screenings and healthcare visits due to the costs [113] This creates an increased burden of disease and statistics show a higher rate of mental health condition's, poor physical health, and respiratory ...
The diagnosis of schizophrenia, a psychotic disorder, is based on criteria in either the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (ICD).
Histrionic personality disorder; Dramatic behavior is a key marker of histrionic personality disorder: Specialty: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry: Symptoms: Persistent attention seeking, dramatic behavior, rapidly shifting and shallow emotions, sexually provocative behavior, undetailed style of speech, and a tendency to consider relationships more intimate than they actually are.
Neurodevelopmental disorders are a group of mental conditions affecting the development of the nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord.According to the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, published in 2013, these conditions generally appear in early childhood, usually before children start school, and can ...
Two of the main reasons for objecting to the inclusion of excoriation disorder in the DSM-5 are: that excoriation disorder may just be a symptom of a different underlying disorder, e.g. OCD or BDD, and excoriation disorder is merely a bad habit and that by allowing this disorder to obtain its own separate category it would force the DSM to ...
The field of psychology has extensively studied homosexuality as a human sexual orientation.The American Psychiatric Association listed homosexuality in the DSM-I in 1952 as a "sociopathic personality disturbance," [1] but that classification came under scrutiny in research funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.