Viennese School

a group of early 20th-century practitioners of psychoanalysis, based in Vienna, who followed the theories of Sigmund Freud. Also called Vienna School; Wiener Schule. See also Wednesday Evening Society.

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Psychology term of the day

March 17th 2025

paranoid delusion

loosely, any of a variety of false personal beliefs tenaciously sustained even in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. These include delusions of grandeur, delusional jealousy, or, most frequently, delusions of persecution.