10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPERPROSEXIA»
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hyperprosexia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
There's a Word for It (Revised Edition): A Grandiloquent ...
When you are unable to concentrate, you have aprosexia (AP-roh-SEK-see-uh);
when your attention is fixated and excessive, you have hyperprosexia (HY-pur-
proh-SEK-see-uh); and when your attention is intensely fixated on sex, you have
...
Charles Harrington Elster, 2005
2
The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of ...
Fixing persistently on one idea is hyperprosexia; turning constantly to side issues
is paraprosexia. Man's major drives are for security and power; sex is a side
issue, to keep him going. L signum. sign; signal, signature; signet, signify, ...
Joseph Twadell Shipley, 2001
3
Dictionary of Psychological Testing, Assessment and Treatment
... Talking incoherently and quickly. hyperphrasia hyperphasia. hyperphrenia
Excessive (and usually incoherent) thinking/mental activity. hyperpiesia
hypertension. hyperprosessis hyperprosexia. hyperprosexia compulsively paying
attention ...
Ian Stuart-Hamilton, 2007
4
The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Levy-Suhl prefers Ziehen's term, hyperprosexia, because it is psychologically
more clearly delineated, and also because this term is noncommittal with
reference to the diagnostic import of the phenomenon to which it refers. In other
words the ...
'Hyperprosexia,' I think they call it," Jessica suggested. Max nodded. "That's it."
He went carefully toward the exit in search of air. Jessica followed in his wake.
Just outside, Max lit up a cigarette and added, "Said even if Cahil could not be ...
6
The Psychology of Abnormal Behavior
The most significant of these disorders have been classified as ( 1 ) aprosexia, (2
) hyperprosexia, and (3) distractibility. (The character of each of the first two
disorders is more readily understood if it is realized that prosexia mean "attention,
" ...
Louis P. Thorpe, Barney Katz, 1948
7
ElderSpeak: A Thesaurus or Compendium of Words Related to ...
... 169 hypermnesia, 169 hyperope, 169 hyperprosexia, 169 hypersteatosis, 170
hyperthermalgesia, 170 hypesthesia, 170 hypn(o), 170 hypnodia, 170
hypnolepsy, 170 hypnomogia, 170 hypnopathy, 170 hypnophobia, 170
hypnophrenosis, ...
James L. Reynolds, MD, 2014
18 Active and passive attention, blocking of attention, dulling of attention,
retardation of attention, blunting of attention, passivity of attention, distractibility of
attention, hyperprosexia. B. Disturbances of Mental Elaboration . . . . . . 23
Disturbances ...
9
The Grandiloquent Dictionary - Tenth Anniversary Edition
... caused by boring tasks hypermnesia - Having an exceptional memmory
hyperprosexia - Excessive attention to something hyperthemalgesia - An
increased sensitivity to heat hypnerotomachia - The struggle to decide between
sleeping and ...
10
Weird and Wonderful Words
... characterized by near-complete indifference to everything (as opposed to
generic, run-of-the-mill absent-mindedness). It is contrasted with hyperprosexia,
concentration on one thing to the exclusion of everything else, and paraprosexia,
the ...
Erin McKean, Roz Chast, 2002
