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Keywords: unconscious, conflicts, impulses, emotion, therapeutic

Self-abusive, aggressive, violent and/or disruptive behavior.

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Allows a person to avoid thinking about a painful situation or experiencing a painful emotion Leads to acts that are often irresponsible, reckless, and foolish

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impulsive; anti-social behavior.

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Expressions of unconscious emotional conflicts or feelings in actions rather than words.

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This is the process of expressing unconscious emotional conflicts or feelings via actions rather than words. The person is not consciously aware of the meaning or etiology of such acts. Acting out may be harmful or, in controlled situations, therapeutic (e.g., children's play therapy). See also: Treatment

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a (usually irritating) impulsive and uncontrollable outburst by a problem child or a neurotic adult

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(psychiatry) the display of previously inhibited emotions (often in actions rather than words); considered to be healthy and therapeutic

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Expressing unconscious emotional conflicts or feelings, often of hostility or love, through overt behavior, thus bypassing conscious awareness and experience of feeling.

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A term that is generally used when the observer believes that the child's behavior is an expression of unconscious wishes or feelings. Frequently used in describing undesirable behavior.

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Acting out is a psychological term meaning to perform an action to express (often unconscious) emotional conflicts. The acting done is usually anti-social and may take the form of acting on the impulses of an addiction (ie. drinking, drug taking or shoplifting) or in a means designed (often unconsciously or semi-consciously) to garner attention (ie. throwing a tantrum or behaving promiscuously). Acting out may be considered a form of projective identification.

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Keywords: behavio, elated, unresolved, unhealthy, psychological

Demonstrating unhealthy, non-productive behavio r r elated to one's unresolved psychological issues.

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Keywords: fourteenth, comedy, grace, episode, season

Acting Out is the fourteenth episode of season two of the television situation comedy Will & Grace.

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Keywords: anomalous, paradoxical, theories, concept, represents

The concept of acting out represents one of the anomalous and paradoxical theories current in the 1970s.

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