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Exaggeration — is a representation of something in an excessive manner. The exaggerator has been a familiar figure in Western culture since at least Aristotle s discussion of the alazon: the boaster is regarded as one who pretends to have distinguished… … Wikipedia
Repetitive strain injury — Classification and external resources DiseasesDB 11373 eMedicine pmr/97 … Wikipedia
Cognitive distortion — Cognitive distortions are exaggerated and irrational thoughts identified in cognitive therapy and its variants, which in theory perpetuate certain psychological disorders. The theory of cognitive distortions was first proposed by Aaron T.… … Wikipedia
Cognitive restructuring — Cognitive restructuring, sometimes used synonymously with Debating[1], is the process of learning to identify irrational or maladaptive thoughts and challenge their veracity using strategies such as logical disputation[2]. Another more simple… … Wikipedia
Sixes (Enneagram of Personality) — This is an article describing personality type Six according to the Enneagram of Personality.General characteristicsSixes (sometimes called loyalists, heroes, troopers, skeptics, loyal skeptics, defenders or the devil s advocates) are people who… … Wikipedia
Phantom pain — sensations are described as perceptions that an individual experiences relating to a limb or an organ that is not physically part of the body. Limb loss is a result of either removal by amputation or congenital limb deficiency (Glummarra et al,… … Wikipedia
Medicine in medieval Islam — In the history of medicine, Islamic medicine or Arabic medicine refers to medicine developed in the medieval Islamic civilization and written in Arabic, the lingua franca of the Islamic civilization. Despite these names, a significant number of… … Wikipedia
Corumination — is a relatively new construct, referring to extensively discussing and revisiting problems, speculating about problems, and focusing on negative feelings with peers This construct overlaps between self disclosure and rumination, but is not… … Wikipedia
Inventions in the modern Islamic world — [ Abdus Salam, the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics recipient, include the electroweak interaction, electroweak symmetry breaking, magnetic photon, neutral current, preon, W and Z bosons, supergeometry, supermanifold, superspace and superfield.] This… … Wikipedia
mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… … Universalium
