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A
  • Abrasive Personality Disorder
  • ​Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
  • Activity Theory of Aging
  • Acute and Transient Psychotic Disorder (ATPD)
  • Adaptation
  • Adaptive Survival Styles (NARM)
  • Affective Neuroscience
  • Affective Realism
  • Agreeableness Personality Trait
  • Alexithymia
  • Allostasis
  • Allostatic Load
  • Analytical Psychology
  • Appraisal Theory of Emotion
  • Attachment Injury
  • Attachment Theory
  • Autobiographical Memory
  • Awe
  • Axis-II Diagnosis
​B
  • Basic Needs
  • Behavior Activation
  • Belongingness
  • Big Five Personality Traits
  • Biphasic Response
  • Bobo Doll Studies
  • Brief Psychotic Disorder (BPD)
  • Broaden and Build Theory
  • Burnout 

C
  • Catastrophic Thinking
  • Cluster 'A' Personality Disorders
  • Codependency Definition
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Cognitive Dissonance
  • Cognitive Heuristics
  • Cognitive Load Theory
  • Cognitive Reappraisal
  • Cognitive Triad
  • Coherence
  • Compensatory Skills
  • Complex Trauma
  • Confabulation
  • Confirmation Bias
  • Conscientiousness
  • Continuity Theory of Aging
  • Coping Mechanism
  • Counterfactual Thinking
D
  • Dark Triad Personalities
  • Death Instinct (Death Drive)
  • Defense Mechanisms (Psychological Defenses)​
  • Degeneration Theory
  • Dementia Praecox
  • Depressive Personality Disorder
  • Depressive Realism
  • Detachment (Psychological)
  • Developmental Tasks
  • Developmental Theory
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy
  • Diathesis Stress Model​
  • Disengagement Theory
  • Displacement (Defense Mechanism)
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Dyadic Regulation

E
  • ​Ego Defense
  • Ego Depletion
  • Ego Ideal
  • Ego Investment
  • Emodiversity
  • Emotion Differentiation
  • Emotional Abuse
  • Emotional Attunement
  • Emotional Detachment
  • Emotional Dysregulation
  • Emotional Equilibrium
  • Emotional Flooding
  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Emotional Guidance System
  • Emotional Hijacking
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Emotional Lability
  • Emotional Styles
  • Emotional Triggers
  • Emotional Valence
  • Emotional Validation
  • Emotional Wounds
  • Emotionally Reactive
  • Engulfment
  • Epigenetics
  • Eudaimonia
  • Executive Functions
  • Experiential Learning Theory
  • Explanatory Style
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy
F
  • Feedback Loops
  • Feeling Felt
  • ​Flourishing
  • Flow State
  • Fundamental Attribution Error
​G
  • Gaslighting
  • General Adaptation Syndrome
  • General Systems Theory*
  • Glucocorticoid Cascade Hypothesis
​H
  • Hedonic Treadmill
  • Hope Theory
  • Homeostasis
  • Humanistic Psychology
  • Homunculus
  • Hypochondria

I
  • Immature Defenses
  • Inner Strength
  • Insecure Attachment
  • Interoception
  • Internal Guidance System
  • Internal Working Models
  • Intimacy
  • Ironic Process Theory
​J
  • James-Lange Theory of Emotion
  • Jungian Psychology
K
  • Kubler-Ross Model
L
  • Learned Helplessness
  • Life Course Theory
  • Life Transitions
  • Limbic System
  • Logotherapy
  • Loss Aversion
​M
  • Maladaptive Behaviors
  • Marshmallow Study
  • Masculine Protest
  • Masochistic Personality
  • Mental Maps
  • Mental Models
  • Mindfulness
  • Mindset
  • Mood Disorders
  • Moods
  • Moral Reconation Therapy

N
  • Narrative Psychology
  • Negative Attribution Style
  • Negative Affect
  • Negative Sentiment Override
  • Negativistic Personality  Disorder
  • Neurosis
  • Neuroticism
  • Neuroplasticity 
O
  • Object Relations Theory
  • Observing Ego
  • Object Cathexis
  • Openness
  • Optimism
  • Organic Mental Disorder
  • Outcome Expectancy
  • Overwhelm
P
  • Pain Body
  • Paranoid Ideation
  • Paraphrenia
  • Passive Aggressive
  • ​Pathological Lying
  • Perfectionism
  • Person Centered Therapy
  • Personal Constructs (Theory)
  • Personality
  • Personality Disorders​
  • Personalization
  • Pleasure Principle
  • Polyvictimization
  • Post Traumatic Growth​
  • Prediction Psychology
  • Primal World Beliefs
  • Primary Needs
  • Prisoner's Dilemma
  • Proactive Aggression 
  • Projection
  • Pseudologia Fantastica
  • Psychosis

Q
  • Quantum Psychology
R
  • Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
  • Reaction Formation
  • Reactive Aggression
  • Realistic Optimism
  • Reciprocal Determinism
  • Regression: A Defense Mechanism
  • Regulatory Focus Theory
  • Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
  • Relationship Anxiety
  • Relative Deprivation
  • Relativistic Thinking
  • Repair Attempts
  • Repressed Anger
  • Repression: A Defense Mechanism
  • Rigid Thinking
  • Role Theory
  • Rumination
​​S
  • Sadist
  • Schizotypal Personality Disorder
  • Schizoid Personality Disorder
  • Secure Base
  • Securely Attached
  • Self Aspects
  • Self Blame
  • Self-Efficacy
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self Complexity Theory
  • Self Narrative
  • Self Schema
  • Self-System
  • Sensory Overload
  • Shattered Assumptions
  • Skeptic
  • Slippery Slope Fallacy
  • Social Anxiety Disorder
  • Social Desirability Bias​
  • Social Learning Theory
  • Social Phobia
  • Somatic Intelligence
  • Splitting: A Defense Mechanism
  • Stanford Prison Experiment
  • State Trait Anger Theory
  • Still Face Experiments
  • Strength Model of Self Control
  • Stress Response Theory
  • Sublimation: A Defense Mechanism
  • Sunk Costs Fallacy
  • Superego
  • Systems Theory

T
  • Theory of Mind
  • Thought Disorders
  • Toxic Environments
  • Triggers
U
  • Unconditional Love
  • Unconditional Positive Regard
  • Undoing Defense Mechanism
  • Undoing Effect
  • Unprocessed Trauma
V
  • Valence
  • Value Theory
  • Vulnerability
W
  • White Bear Principle
  • Window of Tolerance
  • Wise Mind
  • Working Memory
X
  • ​Xenophobia Definition
Y
  • Yerkes-Dodson Law
Z
  • Zero-Defects Mentality
  • Zero Sum Game
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