Conscious Living

Dictionary

Dictionary

456 terms, each with signs, look-alikes, a test and how strong the evidence is.

Abandonment/instability schema Acting out Addiction as an attempted solution to pain (Maté)ADHD in adults Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)Affect labelling Agreeableness Alexithymia All-or-nothing thinking Altruism (as a defence)Ambivalence Amour-propre: self-love disguised as virtue (La Rochefoucauld)Amygdala hijack Anchoring Anger as a secondary emotion Anhedonia Anima and animus Anticipation Antisocial personality Anxiety as the dizziness of freedom (Kierkegaard)Anxious-preoccupied attachment Approach and avoidance motivation (BIS/BAS)Approval-seeking/recognition-seeking schema Archetypes Attachment theory Attunement Authenticity versus attachment (Maté)Authoritarian personality Authority bias Autism in adults Avoidant personality Bad faith (Sartre)Basic assumption groups (Bion)Basic emotions Behavioural addiction Behavioural inhibition Bias blind spot Bids for connection Big Five (Five-Factor Model)Bipolar disorder and hypomania Body dysmorphic disorder Borderline personality Boundaries Breakaway guilt Burnout Bystander effect and diffusion of responsibility Catastrophising Change curve Character armour (Reich)Childhood emotional neglect Co-regulation Codependency Coercive control Cognitive dissonance Cognitive distortions (overview)Cognitive flexibility and rigidity Cognitive reappraisal Collusion Commitment and consistency Communal narcissism Comorbidity Compartmentalisation Complex (Jungian)Complex PTSD Compliance techniques (foot in the door, door in the face, low-ball)Compulsive buying Conditions of worth (Rogers)Confidence-competence gap in leader selection Confirmation bias Conflict modes (Thomas-Kilmann)Conformity Conscientiousness Constructed emotion Containment (Bion)Contempt Contingent self-worth Counterdependence (devaluing one's own need)Counterproductive work behaviour Countertransference Covert depression in men (Terry Real)Cultural mismatch Dark Triad and Dark Tetrad DARVO Das Man: living as 'one' does (Heidegger)Deactivating strategies Defectiveness/shame schema Defence mechanisms (Vaillant's hierarchy)Defensive routines (Argyris)Dehumanisation: animalistic and mechanistic (Haslam)Deindividuation Delay of gratification Denial Dependence/incompetence schema Dependent personality Depressive character Despair: not willing to be oneself (Kierkegaard)Destructive and abusive leadership Devaluation Differential susceptibility (orchid and dandelion)Differentiation of self (Bowen)DISC Discounting the positive Disengagement and quiet quitting Dismissive-avoidant attachment Disorganised attachment Displacement Dissociation (including depersonalisation and derealisation)Doer and done to (Benjamin)Dominance and prestige Drama triangle (persecutor, victim, rescuer)DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 Dual-process thinking (System 1 and System 2)Dunning-Kruger effect Early maladaptive schemas and coping styles (Young)Earned security Eating disorders Economic abuse Ego depletion Ego development (Loevinger)Ego ideal Ego states: Parent, Adult, Child (Transactional Analysis)Emotion regulation Emotional blackmail (fear, obligation, guilt)Emotional contagion Emotional cutoff Emotional deprivation schema Emotional dysregulation Emotional flooding Emotional inhibition schema Emotional labour Emotional numbing Emotional reasoning Emotional spending Enmeshment Enmeshment/undeveloped self schema Enneagram (overview)Enneagram instinctual variants Enneagram Type 1: Reformer Enneagram Type 2: Helper Enneagram Type 3: Achiever Enneagram Type 4: Individualist Enneagram Type 5: Investigator Enneagram Type 6: Loyalist Enneagram Type 7: Enthusiast Enneagram Type 8: Challenger Enneagram Type 9: Peacemaker Entitlement/grandiosity schema Envy Erikson's psychosocial stages Escape from freedom (Fromm)Everyday sadism Experiential avoidance Explanatory (attributional) style Expressive suppression Extraversion Failure schema False consensus effect False self (Winnicott)Family roles (golden child, scapegoat, lost child, mascot)Fawn response Fear versus anxiety Fearful-avoidant attachment Fight, flight, freeze Financial anxiety Financial dependence Financial enabling Financial enmeshment Financial infidelity Financial self-efficacy Financial strain Flow Founder syndrome Four horsemen (Gottman)Four temperaments Fundamental attribution error Fusion versus intimacy Gambling disorder Gaslighting Generalised anxiety Good-enough parenting (Winnicott)Grandiose narcissism Grief (complicated, disenfranchised, anticipatory)Grit Groupthink Growth and fixed mindset Guilt Halo effect Harsh superego (inner critic)Having versus being (Fromm)Health anxiety Healthy narcissism Hedonic adaptation Hero projects and the denial of death (Becker)HEXACO model High-control groups and thought reform Hindsight bias Histrionic personality HiTOP (dimensional model of psychopathology)Honesty-humility Hoovering Horney's three neurotic trends (toward, against, away)Hubris syndrome Humiliation Humour (as a mature defence)Hyperactivating strategies Hyperarousal and hypoarousal Hypervigilance Hypomanic (manic) character I–It (Buber)I–Thou (Buber)Id, ego, superego Idealisation Idealise-devalue-discard cycle Identification with the aggressor Identity achievement Identity diffusion Identity foreclosure Identity moratorium Illusion of control Impostor phenomenon Impression management In-group bias Incongruence (Rogers)Individuation Inferiority complex (Adler)Inflation (ego inflation)Insufficient self-control schema Intellectualisation Intergenerational transmission Intermittent reinforcement Internal Family Systems: managers, firefighters, exiles (Schwartz)Internal working model Interoception Interpersonal circumplex (Leary, Wiggins)Interpersonal complementarity Intersubjectivity and relational psychoanalysis (Stolorow, Mitchell)Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation Introjection Introversion and extraversion (Jung's original sense)Invalidation Isolation of affect Jealousy Job insecurity Jungian cognitive functions Just-world belief Labelling Latent deprivation Leadership derailers (Hogan)Learned helplessness Levels of personality organisation (Kernberg)Life script Liking Limerence Locus of control Loss aversion Love bombing Love languages Machiavellianism Major depression Manic defence Marketing orientation (Fromm)Masking (camouflaging)Maslow's hierarchy of needs Masochistic (self-defeating) character Master and slave morality (Nietzsche)Mental accounting Mental filter Mentalising Midlife transition Mimetic desire (Girard)Mind reading Mistrust/abuse schema Money and happiness Money avoidance Money conflict in couples Money scripts (Klontz)Money shame Money status Money vigilance Money worship Moral disengagement Moral foundations Moral injury Moral licensing Moralisation Motivated reasoning Mutual recognition (Hegel, Honneth)Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)Naive realism Narcissistic injury Narcissistic personality disorder Narcissistic rage Narcissistic supply Narrative identity Need for cognitive closure Need for uniqueness (specialness)Need to belong Needs for achievement, affiliation and power (McClelland)Negative sentiment override Negativity bias Negativity/pessimism schema Neurotic styles (Shapiro)Neuroticism Obedience to authority Object relations Objectification: seven ways of treating a person as a thing (Nussbaum)Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)Obsessive-compulsive personality (OCPD)Oedipal dynamics Omnipotent control One-up, one-down: grandiosity and shame (Terry Real)Openness to experience Optimism bias Organisational justice Ostrich effect Over-functioning and under-functioning Overconfidence in investing Overgeneralisation Panic Paranoid personality Paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions (Klein)Parentification Parenting styles (Baumrind)Passive aggression People-pleasing Perceived partner responsiveness (Reis)Perfectionism Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia)Persona Personalisation Personality disorder (general concept and dimensional model)Peter principle Piaget's stages of cognitive development Pluralistic ignorance Polyvagal theory Post-traumatic growth Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)Power and disinhibition Present bias Primary and secondary gain Procrastination Projection Projective identification Protest behaviour Psychological entitlement Psychological games (Berne)Psychological reactance Psychological safety Psychopathy Psychosis Puer aeternus (eternal youth)Punitiveness schema Pursuer-distancer (demand-withdraw)Rationalisation Reaction formation Reciprocity Regression Regulatory focus (promotion and prevention)Rejection sensitive dysphoria Rejection sensitivity Relative income Repair attempts Repetition compulsion Repression Resentment Resilience Resistance Ressentiment (Nietzsche)Riemann's four basic forms of anxiety Role conflict and ambiguity Rumination and worry Rupture and repair Scapegoating Scarcity Scarcity and the bandwidth tax Schema modes Schizoid fantasy (withdrawal into fantasy)Schizoid personality Schizotypal personality Secure attachment Self-authoring mind Self-compassion Self-concept clarity Self-determination theory Self-discrepancy (ideal and ought selves)Self-efficacy Self-enhancement Self-esteem Self-handicapping Self-monitoring Self-sacrifice schema Self-serving bias Self-transforming mind Self-verification Selfobject needs: mirroring, idealising, twinship (Kohut)Sensory processing sensitivity (highly sensitive person)Separation-individuation (Mahler)Shadow Shame Should statements Silent treatment Social anxiety Social comparison Social defences against anxiety (Menzies Lyth)Social identity Social interest (Adler)Social isolation/alienation schema Social loafing Social proof Socialised mind Somatisation Spiral Dynamics Spiritual bypassing Spite and the underground man (Dostoevsky)Splitting Spotlight effect Status motive Stereotype threat Stonewalling Stress response and allostatic load Striving for superiority and the superiority complex (Adler)Subject-object shift (Kegan)Subjugation schema Sublimation Substance addiction Sudden wealth syndrome Sunk cost fallacy Suppression Survival mode System justification Temperament Terror management theory The basic laws of human stupidity (Cipolla)The face of the other (Levinas)The gifted child: adapting to a parent's needs (Alice Miller)The unconscious Theory of mind Theory X and Theory Y Trait versus state Transference Trauma (big T and small t)Trauma bonding Triangulation Triggers Turning against the self Type A behaviour pattern Underearning Undoing Unrelenting standards/hypercriticalness schema Vulnerability to harm or illness schema Vulnerable (covert) narcissism Warning signs of suicide risk and self-harm Will to meaning (Frankl)Will to power (Nietzsche)Window of tolerance Workaholism