| 单词 |
obsessive |
| 释义 |
obsessive, a.|əbˈsɛsɪv|
[f. obsess v. 3 + -ive.]
Of or pertaining to obsession; liable to obsess; obsessing. So as n., a person characterized by obsessive behaviour.
1911I. H. Coriat Abnormal Psychol. ii. vi. 281 One of the most common of these obsessive states is what is known as the obsession of self-consciousness. 1918A. E. Davis Hypnotism i. 46 A frequent cause of..obsessive thoughts, is the feeling of shame or regret arising out of bad habits. 1926J. I. Suttie tr. Ferenczi's Further Contrib. Theory & Technique Psycho-Anal. xviii. 232 The individual suffering from obsessive ideas is really substituting thought for action. 1966Listener 17 Mar. 414/1 Of the medical obsessives I particularly liked Maurice Denham as Bloomfield Bonington. 1969N. W. Pirie Food Resources iii. 104 In 1939 many of us argued that protein supplies would be the main problem in feeding Britain in war-time. We were stigmatized as obsessives. 1973T. & R. Millon Abnormal Behav. (1974) iii. xiii. 296 Obsessive thoughts are intrusive ideas which the person cannot block from consciousness. 1975R. Hill April Shroud xii. 154 ‘I've got some rushes here. You want to see them?’ Like all obsessives, he could not doubt the answer.
b. obsessive-compulsive adj. Psychol., applied to a disorder in which an obsession results in the compulsion to perform repeatedly meaningless acts; also fig.; so as n., a person whose compulsive behaviour is due to obsessive thoughts.
1927Henderson & Gillespie Text-bk. Psychiatry xiv. 399 ‘Obsessive-compulsive’ state is applied to a..condition in which the preoccupation issues in motor acts of an apparently trifling or meaningless kind. 1941S. H. Kraines Therapy Neuroses & Psychoses i. 26 Hysteria and obsessive-compulsive neurosis in which states symbolic symptoms are more common. 1960Cambr. Rev. 7 May 509/1 Of 100 severe reactions among students..the schizophrenic were the most frequent (34)... There were..7 obsessive-compulsives. 1965New Statesman 24 Sept. 426/1 [Ronald] Reagan has been associated with the obsessive-compulsive faction of the Republican right. 1970Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXII. 175 Schizophrenics, obsessive-compulsives, and depressed persons have a high level of health anxiety. |
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