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mental synthesis

the process by which ideas and images are combined and formed into objects of thought, or by which objects of consciousness are brought together into meaningful wholes.

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November 16th 2024

borderline disorder

borderline disorder

1. see borderline personality disorder.

2. historically, any psychological condition that lies between normality and neurosis, between normality and psychosis, or between normal intelligence and intellectual disability.