repressed person
1repressed — [[t]rɪpre̱st[/t]] ADJ GRADED A repressed person is someone who does not allow themselves to have natural feelings and desires, especially sexual ones. Some have charged that the Puritans were sexually repressed and inhibited …
2Repressed memory — is a hypothetical concept used to describe a significant memory, usually of a traumatic nature, that has become unavailable for recall; also called motivated forgetting in which a subject blocks out painful or traumatic times in one s life. This… …
3Lobotomy — A lobotomy (Greek: lobos: Lobe of brain, tomos: cut/slice ) is a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy (from Greek leukos: clear or white and tomos meaning cut/slice ). It consists of cutting the connections to and from… …
4tight arse — or (N American) tight ass noun (slang) 1. A mean, tight fisted person 2. An excessively conservative or repressed person • • • Main Entry: ↑tight …
5tight ass — tight arse or (N American) tight ass noun (slang) 1. A mean, tight fisted person 2. An excessively conservative or repressed person • • • Main Entry: ↑tight …
6Prizes (novel) — Prizes is a 1995 novel by Erich Segal. It tells stories of three principal characters: Adam Coopersmith (a genius immnuologist), Isabel Da Costa (a child prodigy who goes to win the Nobel prize in physics) and Sandy Raven (a cell biologist who is …
7stick — n 1. a joint, reefer (cannabis cigarette). A term which was fairly widespread among smokers of the drug (beatniks, prisoners, etc.) until the mid 1960s, when joint and spliff largely supplanted it. 2. British chastisement, physical or ver bal… …
8mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… …
9Motivated forgetting — is a debated concept referring to a psychological defence mechanism in which people forget unwanted memories, either consciously or unconsciously.[1] There are times when memories are reminders of unpleasant experiences that make people angry,… …
10literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
