ritualistic behavior

Most of them seem to get a power trip from their ritualistic behaviour.

Helping him up, I asked about the ritualistic behavior.

Hence we must avoid the trap of destructive ritualistic behaviour.

This subtype also involved ritualistic behaviors and was thought to be caused by having been told to keep a family secret.

Like Floortime, parents join their child's ritualistic behavior for relationship-building.

A peculiar ritualistic behavior exists in which neither student nor teacher is asked or required to express his greater self.

Compulsion can be described as a "ritualistic behavior that the person feels compelled to perform".

Compulsive disorder refers to repeated, ritualistic behavior that often is purposeless.

The second treatment option is the use of fluoxetine, a drug that has been found effective in reducing obsessive thoughts and ritualistic behavior.

Ritualistic behavior involves an unvarying pattern of daily activities, such as an unchanging menu or a dressing ritual.

Many of the symptoms - ritualistic behaviors and disturbing thoughts, for example - mirror those of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Children with autism, which afflicts about one person in 500, tend to engage in ritualistic behaviors like spinning, rocking or flapping their hands.

I also wonder whether the frequent ritualistic behavior in young children is a consequence of the still-incomplete development of their neocortices.)

An obsessive-compulsive individual maintains his obsessions (content) if often left alone with his predisposing brain and ritualistic behaviors.

She seems like one to outsiders at first, because of her terror of strangers, her ritualistic behaviors, and her unintelligible, idiosyncratic language.

Their finite distinction of equating original production with ritualistic behavior as compared with mass culture that finds its identifying symbols in reproductions.

The purpose was to assess the effects of EIBI on solitary activities, ritualistic behaviors, and social activity when exposed to the two experimental groups.

There are technological cults and technological credos, doomsayers and utopians, high priests and ritualistic behavior.

Many have no meaningful language, are prone to tantrums that disrupt schooling and cling to ritualistic behavior like hand-flapping or twirling that take the place of play.

The piece is set on a subtle coordinate system - the use of special patterns and the performers familiarity and confident approach to the movement conjure ideas of ritualistic behavior.

Medical anthropologists who have studied technology-induced frenzy in modern America have reported that these watches produced the first instance of what is now familiar ritualistic behavior - frenetic random button pushing.

Experts define and explain how to cope with obsessive compulsive disorder and advise how to determine whether or not your ritualistic behaviors are normal or a sign of a serious anxiety problem.

Sociability, social conventions, ritualistic behavior, the expressions of the emotions, and other forms of communication between individuals, all essential ingredients for full cooperativity, can all be similarly evolutionarily stabilized by koinophilia.

This typically involves speech therapy techniques [ 12 18 ] that are analogous to hypnotherapeutic strategies, both in developing focused concentration, training a ritualistic behavior, and repetitive "practice" with concentration and relaxation.

Instead, the internalised inclination of the individual assumes paramount importance; there is the recognition that ritualistic behaviour, though well-intentioned, possesses no significance or effectiveness unless its external prescription is matched by a personal, internal motivation.