This is known as nonproductive play, or is sometimes called self-stemming or
perseverating.
Another indicator is the degree to which the person is
perseverating on a specific grief behavior.
takes out a restraining order to inhibit my
perseverating on her case history, notwithstanding its laudatory manner, let me reframe the question with my own recent history.
Bloom's particular mode of
perseverating the past and resisting the forward movement of time can be clarified by returning to the drowning man image.
The rationale for the 24-hour separation between trials was to prevent either
perseverating or alternating tendencies.
By determining at least three subject areas to discuss, the therapist can vary the session to keep the attention of someone who has difficulty in single issue attending, and can also move a
perseverating client from one subject to the next.
Obsessive behaviour (sequencing, orienting to specific sounds continuously,
perseveratingHe started screaming in his cell, praying, and
perseverating that he "needed to kill himself," which triggered his transfer to the NMBHI.
We learned ways to approach eating, driving, conversation, boredom, the experience of joy and sorrow, and so on with a more focused awareness on the here and now, and with less mind-drifting or
perseverating into plans and worries for the future, or guilt and resentment over the past.
(33) Theta brain waves are increased during hypnosis, as we now know, indicating why it is so fortuitous to correct old beliefs, release old
perseverating memories, and construct new paradigms within the hypnotic trance state.
She has been
perseverating on numbers and dates and incessantly calling people.
Nancy was
perseverating, "Let's go!", but demonstrating receptive aphasia, as was evidenced by her disregard of the examiner's commands.
