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ego-dystonic /ego-dys·ton·ic/ (e´go-dis-ton´ik) denoting aspects of a person's thoughts, impulses, and behavior that are felt to be repugnant, distressing, unacceptable, or inconsistent with the self-conception.
ego-dystonic [ē′gōdiston′ik] describing elements of a person's behavior, thoughts, impulses, drives, and attitudes that are unacceptable to him or her and cause anxiety. Also called ego-alien, self-alien. Compare ego-syntonic. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In contrast, the term negative sexual cognition is used when the appraisal and/or experience of a sexual cognition is negative; that is, respondents find the sexual cognition to be unacceptable, unpleasant, and ego-dystonic (the type of thought one would not expect to have). Gay men, lesbians and their supports pressured the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality per se (Bayer, 1981) and ego-dystonic homosexuality (Biery, 1990) from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders as forms of mental illness. Cognitive-behavioral researchers have found that the vast majority of non-clinical individuals experience unwanted, sudden, and involuntary thoughts of sex, violence, contamination, and doubt which are ego-dystonic (i. |
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