secondary gain from illness
1secondary gain — n a benefit (as sympathetic attention) associated with a mental illness * * * external and incidental advantage derived from an illness, such as rest, gifts, personal attention, release from responsibility, and disability benefits …
2secondary gain — noun : pleasure derived from a neurosis primarily necessary to the individual for other reasons * * * Psychiatry. any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of… …
3secondary gain — Psychiatry. any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain). * * * …
4Primary and secondary gain — Primary gain or secondary gain are used in medicine to describe the significant psychological motivators patients may have in reporting symptoms. Primary gain produces positive internal motivations. For example, a patient might feel guilty about… …
5gain — 1. Profit; advantage. 2. The ratio of output to input of an amplifying system, generally expressed in decibels in ultrasound. [M.E. gayne, booty, fr. O.Fr., fr. Germanic] primary g. interpersonal, social, or financial advantages from the… …
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7Psychological resistance — is the phenomenon often encountered in clinical practice in which patients either directly or indirectly oppose changing their behavior or refuse to discuss, remember, or think about presumably clinically relevant experiences.Psychoanalytic… …
8Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
9japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …
10Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …
