emotion

Question 1

apprehension caused by anticipation of danger, which may be internal or external

Answer 1

anxiety

Question 2

severe, pervasive, generalised anxiety that is not attached to any particular idea, object or event

Answer 2

free-floating anxiety

Question 3

psychophysiological changes in response to realistic threat or danger

Answer 3

fear

Question 4

excessive excitability with easily triggered annoyance or anger

Answer 4

agitation

Question 5

uneasiness or pressure toward action - seeks relief through action

Answer 5

tension

Question 6

intense attack of anxiety associated with personality disorganization

Answer 6

panic

Question 7

dulled emotional tone associated with detachment or indifference

Answer 7

apathy

Question 8

existence of 2 opposing impulses toward the same thing in the same person at the same time

schizophrenia, borderline state and OCDs

Answer 8

ambivalence

Question 9

repressed material, particularly a painful experience or conflict, is brought back to consciousness

Answer 9

abreaction

Question 10

Failure to live up to self-expectations

Answer 10

shame

Question 11

Emotional state associated with self reproach and need for punishment

Answer 11

guilt

Question 12

resist an impulse, drive or temptation to perform an action

Answer 12

impulse control

Question 13

Ecstatic state in which person insists that their experience is inexpressible and indescribable and that it is impossible to convey what it is like to one who never experienced it

Answer 13

ineffability

Question 14

conscious or unconscious investment of psychic energy in an idea, concept, object or person

Answer 14

cathexis

Question 15

lack of feeling associated with an ordinary emotionally charged subject

Answer 15

acathexis

Question 16

patient’s detaching or transferring of emotion from thoughts or ideas

Answer 16

decathexis