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Joe often speaks incoherently and is experiencing a severe deterioration of adaptive behavior.These are features that characterize the ______ subtype of schizophrenia.


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Inferiority Complex

An inferiority complex is a psychological condition where a person feels a deep sense of inadequacy and insecurity, often stemming from real or imagined inferiority to others.

Oedipal Complex

A concept in psychoanalytic theory describing a child's feelings of desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy and rivalry with the same-sex parent.

Denial

A defense mechanism in which an individual refuses to accept reality or facts, blocking external events from awareness.

Displacement

A defense mechanism where an individual redirects emotional feelings from a threatening target to a less threatening one.

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