Science / Psychiatry Glossary

Formication: The tactile hallucination or illusion that insects are crawling on the body or under the skin.

Fragmentation: Separation into different parts, or preventing their integration, or detaching one or more parts from the rest. A fear of fragmentation of the personality, also known as disintegration anxie . . . View Full Definition

Free Association: In psychoanalytic therapy, spontaneous, uncensored verbalization by the patient of whatever comes to mind.

Free-Floating Anxiety: pervasive and unfocused anxiety.

Fregolis Syndrome: patient believes that a familiar person, who is often believed to be the persons persecutor, has taken on different appearances.

Freudian Slips (Parapraxes): unconscious thoughts slipping through when one is off guard.

Frotteurism: One of the paraphilias, consisting of recurrent, intense sexual urges involving touching and rubbing against a nonconsenting person; common sites in which such activities take place are crow . . . View Full Definition

Fugue: the individual wanders away from usual surroundings and has loss of memory.

Functional Hallucination: the stimulus causing the hallucination is heard in addition to the hallucination. e.g. someone hears

Fusion: The union and integration of the instincts and drives so that they complement each other and help the organism to deal effectively with both internal needs and external demands.

Galactorrhea: (ga-lak-to-re-ah) An excessive flow of breast milk in men or women. This is sometimes a side-effect of antipsychotic medications.

Gegenhalten: Active resistance to passive movement of the extremities that does not appear to be under voluntary control.

Gender Dysphoria: A persistent aversion toward some or all of those physical characteristics or social roles that connote ones own biological sex.

Gender Identity: A persons inner conviction of being male or female.

Gender Role: Attitudes, patterns of behavior, and personality attributes defined by the culture in which the person lives as stereotypically masculine or feminine social roles.

Global Aphasia: both receptive and expressive aphasia present at the same time.

Globus Hystericus: The disturbing sensation of a lump in the throat.

Glossolalia: Gibberish-like speech or speaking in tongues.

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