(1) In doing so they are often supported by their parents who as well assume an ambivalent attitude towards therapy.
(2) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
(3) Partners to the drug-treated mice showed a decrease in the occurrence of offensive ambivalence and of the element "rattle".
(4) But also the functionalism does not offer a complete psychological theory: there is an ambivalence concerning the secondary qualities and also concerning intentionality.
(5) This component of a more comprehensive study of Houdini focuses on the unusual reification of his family romance fantasies, their endurance well beyond the usual boundaries in time, their kinship with mythological themes, and their infusion with the ambivalence that is often addressed toward the true parents.
(6) The whole proves his introversion, ambivalence, hypersensitivity, obstinancy, anxieties, behavioral anomalies, a life rich in fantasies and his underestimation of his own literary work.
(7) I thought: this is a country of law and they will help me get my rights.” She is so fond of the child she looked after for 18 months that she feels ambivalent about any possible prosecution of the parents, her ex-employers.
(8) It was noted that apart from these two factors, these drinking drivers were equally ambivalent in their attitudes toward alcoholism and the alcoholic when compared to the norm group.
(9) They were called 'the give-uppers', 'the clenchers', 'the refocusers' and 'the ambivalents'.
(10) Of the 133 pregnancies that ended in childbirth, 59.4% of the mothers felt that the refusal had been completely justified, 24.8% were ambivalent, and 15.8% felt that the refusal had been unjustified.
(11) Even many faculty members, including the school's president, Sister Mary Tracy, were ambivalent about the need to let go a competent and popular teacher.
(12) Responses of avoidant, ambivalent and controlling groups showed elements of the same organization revealed in reunion behaviour.
(13) O'Donnell cautions against adopting an absolute rule of always disclosing everything, and acknowledges the difficulties of coping with patient ambivalence on the issue.
(14) The opening lines of Hill's first completed (but second to be published) novel, Fell of Dark (1971), were clearly prophetic: "I possess the Englishman's usual ambivalent attitude to the police.
(15) They found, in men: an inability to abandon fertility as lost (with denial of sterility); ambivalence, castration anxiety and a feeling of being excluded from the mother-child symbiosis with later acceptance of loss of fertility and (sometimes excessively) identification with the "mother".
(16) Results indicated that psychiatric patients (N = 66): a) viewed both parents more negatively than did members of a matched sample of 66 normal subjects; b) expressed significantly greater ambivalence regarding both parents than did normal subjects; and c) described both parents at a more primitive conceptual level than did normal subjects.
(17) The method to overcome the resistance to dental attention due to anguish is to establish a good relation-ship between the dentist and the patient, a good management of the ambivalent feeling of the child and the elimination of the phenomenon of transference.
(18) When controlled for sex, additional symptom differences were found for female schizophrenics; blacks were more often excited, ambivalent, rigid and dysphoric.
(19) Transsexuals who had not undergone surgery, although it had been offered to them providing they fulfilled the usual requirements, were classified into various subgroups, measured according to their attitude towards sex reassignment surgery: they were transsexuals with an unaltered wish for surgery, transsexuals who were ambivalent towards surgery (hesitating patients), and transsexuals who had relinquished their wish for surgery and lived in the initial gender role.
(20) These feelings of ambivalence, emotional instability, and sometimes even hostility toward the surgeon make the male aesthetic patient more of a psychological risk than the female aesthetic patient.
Unsure
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But the position of locum GPs remains worryingly unsure.
(2) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
(3) Mothers, Stadlen suggests, only turn dogmatic or bossy when they feel cornered or unsure of themselves.
(4) Other critics, even if they were unsure of the lasting relevance, were willing to give Tillmans the benefit of the doubt.
(5) Senior civil servant Simon Case joined the UK’s EU embassy in March to lead work on the new partnership with the bloc, but EU diplomats are unsure how he fits into the picture.
(6) If you are really unsure as to what’s acceptable, then just don’t do it, or go in wearing your underwear.
(7) In the email King sets out ways jobcentre staff can catch out claimants, saying: "You should consider every doubt – if you are unsure then please conference with me."
(8) Graham said he was unsure “where this will go”.
(9) The reality is that most of America is really unsure about it, which is exactly how it should be – because you can look at talking points and models all day, but no one knows for sure what's going to happen.
(10) As things stand, the OECD is unsure whether this is a temporary pause in economic recovery or something more serious.
(11) test: If you are unsure about whether activities conducted by a particular supplier should be tolerated or not, consider how you would feel if you could see it happening for yourself.
(12) She remains unsure why she was deemed at risk of developing ovarian cancer: she was too shocked to ask questions, the operation deemed too urgent to give her time to reflect.
(13) We’re all a bit unsure,” says Martin Wilson, from Warrington and now living in the Costa del Sol town of Nerja with his family.
(14) The 160-year-old shoe retailer may yet be rescued, but about 1,000 workers are unsure about their future employment.
(15) Although the scientists said they were still unsure whether a warming climate would result in an increase in the frequency of hurricanes and other tropical cyclones, there was a stark warning for the northern hemisphere, and areas of Europe and North America where currently hurricanes hardly ever happen.
(16) 'If you're saying, "We're not going to tell you the whole truth, but we're going to ask you to pay up a lot of money," people are going to be unsure.'
(17) Support groups for EU citizens in Britain have criticised the long delay and uncertainty faced by families and workers in the UK, who are unsure of their immigration status following Brexit.
(18) Over 80% were unsure of the meaning of fluoride tablets, gum disease, gingivitis and oral hygiene.
(19) From London to New York to Hong Kong, many are crammed into micro-apartments that cost hundreds of pounds or dollars a month to rent, unsure when they will be able to afford a more permanent abode.
(20) Because there is no standardized definition of what constitutes a condition of tongue-tie, the dental practitioner is often unsure as to the appropriate course of action with a patient with suspected ankyloglossia.