Therapy Toronto Psychotherapy Definitions

OACCPP

OACCPP stands for the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists, a professional association in Ontario.

Object-relations

In the curious terminology of psychoanalysis, people who matter to us are termed ’objects’ while we, regarding them, are termed ‘subjects.’

Obsessions

Obsessions are ideas, images and impulses that run through the person's mind over and over again.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder , OCD

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder also called OCD is characterized by obsessive thoughts and/or compulsive behaviors that significantly interfere with normal life.

OHIP

OHIP is the Ontario Health Insurance Plan, a medical health insurance plan.

OHIP is the province’s tax-supported health insurance plan for residents of the Province of Ontario.

On-Line Therapy

On-line psychotherapy is a natural offshoot of the developing power of the internet and an easy way to work with a therapist who is too distant to visit regularly.

Openness

This word is now common in American English to describe a desirable and refreshing human quality of acceptance, trust and curiosity about the mysterious workings of the human spiriti.

Oppression

Oppression is the unjust use of power, on a continual basis, by one group over another, using political power and ideology in a way that creates and
sustains inequity in the distribution of resources.

Orgone

A term coined by Wilhelm Reich to describe the fundamental psychic-somatic essence of vitality.

Orthorexia Nervosa

Orthorexia nervosa refers to a fixation on eating healthy food.

OSP

OSP stands for the Ontario Society of Psychotherapists, a professional grouping of psychotherapists based in Ontario.

Otherness

This term functions to speak of many things that were once subsumed unde the term 'mystery'.