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Ego dystonic
Ego dystonic In psychiatry, the term used to apply to a proclivity, for example, toward homosexuality, in a person who seeks to repudiate it.
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Psychiatry
The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental and emotional disorders.
Homosexuality
Erotosexual pairing with a partner of the same genital morphology. Its full manifestation includes falling in love (homophilic limerence). Homosexual sexuoerotic behaviors may occur in same sex concentrations (as in prisons) from sexual frustration, or the expression of position in the heirarchy of dominance and power, for example (heterophlic homosexuality).
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Ego ideal
The part of the personality that comprises the aims and goals for the self; usually refers to the conscious or unconscious emulation of significant figures with whom one has identified. The ego ideal emphasizes what one should be or do in contrast to what one should not be or not do.
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Eidetic
Characterized by vividly precise and accurate recall of objects, events, sounds or other imagery previously perceived.
Elective mutism
Failure to speak, or to be able to speak about certain topics, that is not necessarily permanent but is reversible under changed circumstances.
Electrocutophilia
A paraphilia of the sacrificial and expiatory stratagem in which sexuoerotic arousal and orgasm is dependent upon the use of electrical stimulation of the body to possibly include the nipples, urethra, penis/scrotum, vulva/clitoris/vagina and anal/rectal tissues. This paraphilia has been seen to occur more frequently among women than in men and has also resulted in accidental death. The activities of electrocutophilia may be exploratory or varietal sex play and not a paraphilia. It also may be part of a sadomasochistic repertory. Devices for "safe" sexuoerotic electrostimulation are now commercially available.
Electrolysis
For cosmetic reasons, a method of removing hair by inserting a needle into the hair-growing follicle and killing it with a pulse of electric current.
Eligibility
Having the required qualification.
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