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cathexis (en)

(psychoanalysis) the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea

Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders
by Aaron T. Beck

Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders
by Aaron T. Beck

Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders
by Aaron T. Beck


Thus, in depression, the depressive mode is cathected; in generalized anxiety disorder, the danger mode is cathected; in panic disorder, the panic mode is cathected (Beck et al., 1985).

—p.28 Theory of Personality Disorders (17) by Aaron T. Beck
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