What's the difference between cacoethes and compulsion?
Cacoethes
Definition:
(n.) A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoethes scribendi, "The itch for writing".
(n.) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ginsberg carefully wrote in his journal the key terms of the "Carr language": fruit, phallus, clitoris, cacoethes, faeces, foetus, womb, Rimbaud.
Compulsion
Definition:
(n.) The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force.
Example Sentences:
(1) Defence lawyers suggested this week that Anwar's accuser was a "compulsive and consummate liar" who may have been put up to it.
(2) It is possible that the marked elevations in obsessive-compulsive symptomatology and in interpersonal sensitivity may reflect in part a sensitization to excessive performance demands.
(3) Associated features include previous illness phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
(4) Efficacy assessments included the child version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale and the National Institute of Mental Health Global rating scale.
(5) Rigorously designed clinical trials have demonstrated the efficacy and safety of fluoxetine in adults with major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) but not in patients below 18 years old.
(6) In depression neurosis, neurasthenia and anxiety neurosis the scale 2 (D) increases dominantly; in hysteria, the scale 3 (HY); in hypochondria, the scale 1 (HS); in phobic and compulsion neurosis, the scale 7.
(7) In this article, obsessive compulsive disorder, its subtypes, and epidemiologic features are described.
(8) This suggests that the locomotor stimulation induced by amphetamine involves central norepinephrine, while dopamine neurons play an important role in the induced compulsive gnawing behavior.
(9) A principal axis factor analysis with a Promax rotation was performed on the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale.
(10) The main phenomenological differences between hypochondriasis and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder have been interpreted as expressive of the lower and higher levels of intrapsychic integration respectively.
(11) Despite the presence of some side effects, such as easily controlled seizures (9%) and transient mania (6%), the results of this investigation support the use of cingulotomy as a potentially effective treatment for patients with severe and disabling obsessive-compulsive disorder.
(12) A young adolescent girl (13.5 years old) with a compulsive eating disorder and gross obesity was treated with a combination of behavior therapy and fenfluramine (Ponderax).
(13) The four most frequently identified personality disorders were avoidance 26.7%, paranoia 21.3%, self-defeating 19.1%, and obsessive-compulsive 17.1%.
(14) In both samples patients with blood type A scored significantly higher than those with type O on the 'Obsessive-Compulsive' and 'Psychoticism' factors.
(15) But at some point I realized that it's precisely because they continuously justify so much violence and aggression from their side that they have such a boundless compulsion to depict others as the Uniquely Primitive and Violent Evil.
(16) Five patients (14 per cent) improved dramatically; in retrospect, four of these five patients suffered from nonremitting forms of manic-depressive illness, and the fifth patient suffered from a severe obsessive compulsive neurosis.
(17) Improvement in obsessive-compulsive symptoms did not correlate significantly with plasma concentrations of the drug or its metabolites.
(18) The authors present a case of coexisting obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and bipolar affective disorder in which the obsessive-compulsive symptoms disappeared during episodes of mania and reappeared during periods of depression.
(19) Social phobia and obsessive compulsive disorder comprised those patients with similar qualities to each other in terms of their demographic data and their social backgrounds, forming a distinct group apparently different from the panic-generalized anxiety group.
(20) And customers and governments need to give up their compulsive throw-away habits and embrace the take-back economy.