Glossary

• ADHD - acronym for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Affects - Displayed emotions
• Algorithm - set of instructions to lead to an objective/purpose/state
• Basins of Attraction - a vector that pushes toward it
• Capitalism - political system based on free market ideology, corporativism, mercantilism
• Cathexis - Psychoanalytic jargon for 'emotional investment'
• Cluster B - Set of dramatic personality disorders (NPD, BPD, ASPD and HPD)
• Cluster C - Set of anxious avoidant personality disorders (DPD, APD, OCPD)
• Codependency - informal for DPD (Dependent Personality Disorder)
• Cognitive Dissonance - when a person has to make sense of two or more contradictory pieces of information
• Communism - political system based on state enforced collection and redistribution of value; state controlled property and of the means of production
• Comorbidities - diseases/pathologies in addition to a primary disease
• Conversion disorders - psychological distress expressed as physical symptoms
• Cosmovision - vision/conception about how the world works
• Depersonalization - change in the sense of self-identity
• Derealization - change in the perceptual experience of reality
• Dissociation - Loss of identity, confusion, memory loss, feeling disconnected
• Doorbell Dread - Fear of someone coming to the hoard
• Dopamine - neurotrasmiter associated with the reward system which is experienced as pleasure
• Double Bind - 'Damned if you, damned if you don't'
• Egosyntonicity - Matching behaviors and self-image/identity
• Enmeshment - becoming overly close that your personalities start to merge; breaking boundaries
• Entrainment - psychological synchronization
• Epistemology - how to know
• Ethology - [study of] behavior
• Etiology - [study of] causes
• False-self - personality construct to shield and project an idealized version of the self
• FIFO, FEFO, LIFO - acronyms for "First in, first out", "First expired, first out" and "Last in, first out", which are used in logistics and stocking
• "Folie à deux" - literally "Crazyness of two"; shared fantasy: shared psychosis
• Gaslighting - attempt to change the other person's perception of the truth by pushing false memories or by accusing of inadequeacy, miscalculation, mistake
• Groupthink - biased convergent group thought alignment
• Heuristic - how to solve a problem; how to do
• Hoarding - Obsessive behavior of gathering and saving items
• Hyper-mania - Excessive excitation; erratic behavior
• Hypo-mania - Absense of excitation; lethargy
• Ideosyncrasy - specific unique characteristic detail
• Introject - unconscious adoption of the thoughts or personality traits of others
• Kleptomania - compulsive stealing
• Lability - emotionality
• Lebensraum - living space
• Learned helplessness acquired self-defeatism from low self-esteem due to abuse
• Machievelianism - derived from the political advisor Niccolo Machieveli, it expresses his calculating and predatory style of character
• Materialism - Philosophical world view based on a euclidean newtonian world of objects
• Modus operandi - latin for "way of operating"
• Mortification - tatic within therapy modalities against NPD that intends to force the patience to face reality and adapt to it
• Narcissism - derived from a mythological character named Narcisus that was obsessively infatuated with his own reflection; basis for NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) diagnosis
• 'Object' - psycanalytic reference of people, as internal 'objects'
• Object relations theory - psycho-analytic theory that explains early infancy identity formation through primary caregiver relations
• Objectification - Conversion of external 'objects' (people) into internal 'objects'; coloquially, treating people as sexual objects
• OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Personification - figure of speech that confers human properties and characteristics to inhert, abstract or non-human living entities
• Reinforcement - a strategic way to instill the repetition (positive reinforcement) or halting (negative reinforcement) a behavior
• Paracosm - a parallel confabulated reality
• Positivism - philosophical view that only accounts as true/real/existent that which is measurable
• Prime - to prepare so as to influence in preprogrammed manner
• Process Addiction - repetitive behavioral patterns [regardless of the outcome]
• Procrastination - postponing tasks
• Psychopathy - informal for APD (antisocial personality disorder)
• PTSD - stands for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; and CPTSD for Complex PTSD which stands for the accumulation of traumas
• Rationalization - A form of explanation (often "unconscious") to explain a situation; a way to solve cognitive dissonance; self-deception
• Reality testing abilities - The ability to correctly assess reality
• Reframing - The technique to interpret and modulate facts in a different light, or with different conclusions
• Socratic Method - method of enquiry that poses opportune questions and seeks to find the answer by narrowing down possiblities and posing even more nuanced and specific questions and so on
• Solipsism - the belief that the only thing the self can trust to be true is the self's existence
• Schema - Set of mental models to organize personality and behavior around
• Sedentarism - a stationary lifestyle of little movement
• Self-trash - to treat oneself badly; demean oneself
• Sovereignty - Ownership
• Splitting - Binary thinking (good-bad, like-dislike, useful-useless)
• Stocholm Syndrome - condition of kidnap victims of protecting or empathizing with their kidnapper
• Sublimation - replacement of one basic drive (drive) with more socially acceptable solutions
• Suicidal ideation - thoughts of suicide
• Tensors - something that causes tension
• Trauma dumping - burdening other people with information very negatively emotionally charged
• Zero-sum game - One type of game where for one player to win the other must lose, and vice versa