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obsessive-compulsive personality [1 record]

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Record 1 1987-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neuroses
  • Personality Development
OBS

obsessive-compulsive neurosis: a psychoneurosis characterized by persistent and often unwanted ideas (obsessions) and impulses to carry out compulsions, or irrational, stereotyped, and ritualistic acts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Névroses
  • Développement de la personnalité
OBS

Névrose obsessionnelle : elle se manifeste par des symptômes bien particuliers, et notamment par les obsessions et par les compulsions (la peur de ne pouvoir résister à un désir irrationnel que l'on perçoit comme irrésistible (décrit en littérature par Duhamel dans le Journal de Salavin).

Key term(s)
  • personnalité obsessive-compulsive

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