culture-bound syndromes
Patterns of aberrant behaviour that do not fit easily into standard classifications of mental disorders and are entirely or mainly restricted to particular cultural groups, usually (ethnocentrically) ...
Ellen West
The pseudonym of a young woman with anorexia nervosa who became the subject of the most famous case study of existential analysis, a long and disturbing account by the Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig ...
muscle dysmorphia
A form of body dysmorphic disorder, primarily affecting men but also occasionally women, characterized by pathological concern about being physically puny or insufficiently muscular. People with this ...
pro-ana
Pro-anorexia, loosely descriptive of a subculture, associated literature, and especially web sites that provide support for people with eating disorders and also sometimes (controversially) promote ...
reverse anorexia nervosa
Another name for muscle dysmorphia. See also bigorexia. Compare anorexia nervosa.
subliminal perception
Preconscious processing of stimuli below the intensity or duration of the absolute threshold and therefore not eliciting conscious perception. It has been shown to occur for all sense modalities, and ...
