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Psychology term of the day

February 2nd 2025

retrogression

n. the return to a previous inappropriate behavior or to a behavior appropriate to an earlier stage of maturation when more adult approaches fail to solve a conflict. It is approximately equivalent to regression but without the full psychoanalytic connotations.