Jazzy Boo: Notes

Key Terms

Healing – tending to cure or restore to health
Isolation – A state of separation between persons or groups
Cognitive Therapy – “the way we think about things affects how we feel emotionally; focuses on present thinking, behavior, and communication
Psychoanalysis – a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating mental disorders
Hysteria – state of violent mental agitation
Abreaction – purging of emotional tensions
Psychoneurotic – affected with emotional disorder; mental imbalance that causes distress
Expressive therapy – creative arts therapy, is the use of creative arts as a therapy.
Therapy – physical or mental; healing power or quality
Poetry – literature in metrical form; any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling