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intellectual insight

in psychotherapy, an objective, rational awareness of experiences or relationships. Some theorists posit that intellectual insight by itself does not advance the therapeutic process and may even impede it because little or no feeling (i.e., emotional content) is involved.

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cortical inhibition

cortical inhibition

inhibition of activity originating in the cerebral cortex or cerebellar cortex.