reconstructive psychotherapy

psychotherapy directed toward basic and extensive modification of an individual’s character structure by enhancing his or her insight into personality development, unconscious conflicts, and adaptive responses. Examples are Freudian psychoanalysis, Adlerian individual psychology, Jungian analytic psychology, and the approaches of Karen D. Horney and Harry Stack Sullivan.

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July 27th 2024

primary insomnia

in DSM–IV–TR, a sleep disorder characterized by difficulty in initiating or maintaining a restorative sleep to a degree in which the severity and persistence of the sleep disturbance causes clinically significant distress, impairment in a significant area of functioning, or both. The disorder is not caused by a general medical condition or the effects of a substance and is not exclusively an aspect of another sleep disorder or mental disorder. It is termed insomnia disorder in DSM–5. See dyssomnia. Compare primary hypersomnia.