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100 Words Every Psychiatrist Should Know

June 18, 2026

100 Words Every Psychiatrist Should Know

No. Item Definition
1. addiction dependence on a substance or behavior
2. affect outward display of emotion
3. aggression forceful hostile behavior
4. agitation restless emotional arousal
5. anhedonia inability to feel pleasure
6. anxiety persistent worry or fear
7. apathy lack of interest or feeling
8. assessment systematic evaluation of condition
9. attention focused mental concentration
10. avoidance staying away from triggers
11. behavior observable actions
12. boundaries professional limits in relationships
13. capacity ability to make decisions
14. catatonia marked disturbance of movement
15. cognition mental process of knowing
16. comorbidity coexisting disorders
17. compulsion repetitive urge-driven act
18. confidentiality privacy of patient information
19. consent permission after understanding risks
20. countertransference clinician’s emotional reaction to patient
21. delusion fixed false belief
22. dependence need for a substance
23. depression persistent low mood
24. diagnosis identification of a mental disorder
25. dissociation disconnection from self or surroundings
26. distress emotional suffering
27. dosage amount of medicine taken
28. dysphoria state of unease or unhappiness
29. empathy understanding another’s feelings
30. episode distinct period of symptoms
31. fatigue extreme tiredness
32. flashback sudden vivid return of memory
33. follow-up later check after treatment
34. formulation clinical explanation of problems
35. functioning ability to manage daily life
36. grief deep sorrow after loss
37. grounding technique to regain present focus
38. guilt feeling responsible for wrongdoing
39. hallucination perception without external cause
40. history past medical and personal details
41. hospitalization admission to a hospital
42. hostility angry opposition
43. hypersomnia excessive sleepiness
44. hypervigilance excessive alertness to danger
45. impulse sudden urge to act
46. impulsivity acting without forethought
47. insight awareness of one’s condition
48. insomnia difficulty sleeping
49. intervention action to improve condition
50. interview structured clinical questioning
51. intoxication state caused by substances
52. irritability easily annoyed mood
53. judgment ability to make sound decisions
54. mania abnormally elevated mood
55. medication drug treatment
56. memory ability to retain information
57. mental status current psychological functioning
58. mindfulness present-focused awareness
59. monitoring ongoing observation over time
60. motivation drive to act
61. obsession intrusive recurring thought
62. orientation awareness of time and place
63. overdose dangerously excessive dose
64. panic sudden intense fear
65. paranoia suspicious distrust of others
66. perception interpretation of sensory information
67. personality enduring pattern of traits
68. phobia irrational intense fear
69. prognosis expected course of illness
70. psychosis loss of contact with reality
71. psychotherapy talk-based mental health treatment
72. rapport harmonious therapeutic relationship
73. recovery return to better health
74. referral sending patient to specialist
75. relapse return of symptoms
76. remission reduction or disappearance of symptoms
77. resilience ability to recover well
78. risk chance of harm
79. rumination repetitive negative thinking
80. safety freedom from danger
81. screening checking for possible disorder
82. self-harm intentional injury to oneself
83. shame painful sense of disgrace
84. sleep natural state of rest
85. speech spoken language output
86. stigma social disapproval of illness
87. stress mental or emotional strain
88. suicidality risk of self-harm or suicide
89. symptom a sign of illness
90. temperament natural emotional disposition
91. therapy treatment through psychological methods
92. thought idea or mental process
93. tolerance reduced response over time
94. transference patient redirects feelings to clinician
95. trauma deep emotional injury
96. triage prioritizing urgent cases
97. unconscious outside conscious awareness
98. validation acknowledging another’s feelings
99. vulnerability susceptibility to harm
100. withdrawal symptoms after stopping a substance

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