#psychiatry terms

• Agriothymia — A rare psychopathological state or extreme behavioral manifestation characterized by an impulsive tendency toward ferocity, instinctive cruelty, or wild behavior, uncontrolled by moral or social norms. In old alienist medical terminology, the term described a structural regression of affectivity toward primitive stages of brute aggressiveness.
• Aneurosis — A rare clinical term used to describe the total absence of neurotic manifestations or a theoretical state of absolute psychological balance characterized by the structural lack of repressed internal conflicts. In certain treatises of dynamic psychopathology, the concept defines an organic resistance or a functional deficit of emotional adaptation that prevents the externalization of tensions as classic neurosis.
• Anxiogenic — Generating, causing, or amplifying a state of anxiety, fear, or diffuse apprehension; an environmental factor, contextual situation, sensory stimulus, or chemical substance capable of triggering an acute stress reaction or a panic attack within the nervous system structure.