Compulsion

  • 71compulsion —   Kuko ā ho okō …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 72compulsion — An uncontrollable urge to say or do something without an obvious reason. A person may repeat a behavior, such as hand washing, over and over …

    English dictionary of cancer terms

  • 73compulsion neurosis — obsessive compulsive disorder …

    Medical dictionary

  • 74Repetition compulsion — is psychological phenomenon in which a person repeats a traumatic event or its circumstances over and over again. This includes reenacting the event or putting oneself in situations that have a high probability of the event occurring again. This… …

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  • 75legal compulsion — That compulsion which is presumed in law, as distinguished from actual compulsion or compulsion in fact; as, where the law presumes the compulsion of the husband if the wife commits a crime in his presence. 21 Am J2d Crim L § 102 …

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  • 76Freudian Interpretations of Obsession and Compulsion —    (from 1896)    Aside from hysteria, obsession and compulsion constituted the core psychoneuroses (symptoms having an unconscious mechanism) that psychoanalysis sought to explain. Freud first articulated his concept of obsessional neurosis… …

    Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

  • 77Under Compulsion — Infobox Book name = Under Compulsion title orig = translator = image caption = Dust jacket from the first edition. author = Thomas M. Disch illustrator = cover artist = Ken Reilly country = United Kingdom language = English series = genre =… …

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  • 78business compulsion — busi·ness compulsion n: economic duress Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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  • 79actual compulsion — Real compulsion, as distinguished from a presumed compulsion because of the relationship between the parties as husband and wife, parent and child, etc …

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  • 80business compulsion — Duress, clothed in modern dress, arising from business necessity or economic compulsion, as where the owner of a business to an unlawful demand out of fear of a serious loss of trade, unless he complies. 25 Am J2d Dur §§ 6, 7 . One cannot be said …

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