Basic Psychological Terms for Contemporary Poets
1) biological-social-psychological
2) culture-bound syndromes
3) diathesis-stress-disorder
4) mood disorders
5) unipolar disorders
6) unipolar depression
7) bipolar disorder-major depression-mania
8) anxiety disorder
9) social phobias
10) obsessive-conpulsive disorder
11) childhood disorders
12) dementia
13) eating disorders
14) personality disorders
15) paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal
16) antisocial-narcissistic, histrionic, and borderline: disorders
17) psychopaths
18) vallians
19) paraphilias
20) impulsive-control disorders
21) antidepressants
22) mood stablizers
23) electroconvulsive therapy
24) lobotomies(no longer practised)
(From the book'The writer's guide to psychology' by Carolyn Kaufman, Psy.D.) (2010)
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Severity varies in annoyance,
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Geese shall sound in the skies
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Just robots with skin
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America Joy and Envy
The new generation of young people
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