Sentences with phrase «called compulsion»

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD, involves unwanted thoughts («obsessions») and accompanying behaviors called compulsions that patients use to reduce anxiety.

They may feel compelled to perform routines and rituals, called compulsions, to try to control their thoughts and ease their anxiety.

«I've never wanted to do anything else — you could call it a compulsion.

«In order to cope with that distress, what people do is they act out strategies to either get rid of the intrusions that they're experiencing or to minimise the threat that they see, and these actions are called compulsions,» he says.

Not exact matches

In Freudian psychology, the human behavior revealed by the myth would be called repetitive compulsion.

The highest binding can not by its very nature make use of any compulsion; it calls for a perfected community based on spontaneity.

The challenge before us is to navigate the hyphen and be prepared to explore our varied histories, discover the outside forces, question the economic compulsions, be astounded by the cultural diversity, empathise with the experience of marginality, marvel at the memories that have shaped all these various selves, and offered, and continue to offer us, an identity or identities across the hyphen, as the various embodied selves that make up the assorted group of people who are called Indian - Christians.

Rejecting that totalitarianism is inherent in his call for equality of opportunity, Dr Swift emphasised the collective nature of the state which has always included an element of compulsion in a variety of areas.

But after a few months, one night that guy called her and told her about his compulsion that how his family forced him to marry that girl while he didn't want.

Exploiting a little thing called the Zeigarnik Effect, these unassuming creatures play on our compulsion to complete the incomplete — that itch we simply have to scratch when we see a puzzle that's missing a piece.

Earlier in the week, Compulsion Games announced their next title will be called We Happy Few.

Part of a series of 102 silkscreened canvas panels conceived as one painting with multiple components, in this piece there are elements that call to mind Franz Kline's investigations into calligraphic compulsions.

As one last puzzle, one could call Johns's repetition a dogged determination in the face of death, Freud's «repetition compulsion,» the fate of art, or sheer joy.

Too often the subject of art and mental illness is diluted by displays foregrounding the romantic side of compulsion or the curiousness of so - called outsider artists.

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Our second subject is Joel, a 33 - year - old who might be called «cheap» by his friends but who prefers saying he just doesn't have «a compulsion to buy things.»

Knit together the threads of your story in a way that creates a compulsion to call you in for an interview to hear more — so you can fully convince them you can achieve the same — or similar — results for them.

Panic, phobias, conversions, obsessions, compulsions and depressions (analysts call these «neurotic symptoms») are not usually caused by deficits in functions.

The tendency to unconsciously attract relationships that reenact past conflicts and beliefs is called «repetition compulsion.»