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Fear of cancer
Fear of cancer (carcinophobia, ICD-11 MG24.0) ranges from common population cancer worry to clinical nosophobia, illness anxiety disorder, and fear of cancer recurrence in survivors; treated with CBT.
Fear of cardiovascular disease
Fear of cardiovascular disease, known as cardiophobia or heart-focused anxiety, is a specific phobia involving repeated chest pain and palpitations with fear of heart attack, classified as ICD-11 code MG24.7.
Fear of death or dying
Fear of death or dying (death anxiety), ICD-11 code MG23, is fear of one's own and others' mortality; a transdiagnostic construct linked to anxiety, depression, and hypochondriasis, measured mainly by the Templer Death Anxiety Scale.
Fear of disease
Fear of disease is excessive anxiety about having or acquiring illness. It includes nosophobia, fear of one specific disease, and illness anxiety disorder, the DSM-5 name for hypochondria.
Fear of flying
Fear of flying (aerophobia, aviophobia) is a situational specific phobia affecting an estimated 10–40% of people, about 25 million U.S. adults. Treated mainly with exposure-based CBT and virtual reality exposure therapy.
Fear of human immunodeficiency virus
Fear of human immunodeficiency virus (ICD-11 MG24.1), also called HIV phobia, serophobia, or AIDS phobia, is a classified disease-fear condition: persistent, irrational fear of contracting HIV despite negative tests, first described 1983, closely tied to HIV stigma and testing anxiety.
Fear of mental disorder
Fear of mental disorder (ICD-11 MG24.J) is a chapter 24 category classifying fear of developing a mental disorder as a health-status factor, distinct from hypochondriasis (6B23) and bodily distress disorder, alongside sibling disease-fear codes.
Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark, clinically nyctophobia (also scotophobia, lygophobia), is a specific phobia of darkness causing panic, insomnia, and avoidance; common in children, treated with CBT and exposure therapy.
Feeding difficulties
Feeding difficulties are problems with eating or drinking, ranging from picky eating to pediatric feeding disorder; in adults, the equivalent problem is usually dysphagia, a swallowing disorder.
Female hysteria
Female hysteria, from Greek hystera (uterus), was a diagnosis applied to women for over two millennia, attributed to a wandering womb, treated with rest cures and surgery, reframed by Charcot and Freud, and removed from the DSM in 1980; the vibrator-treatment narrative is disputed.
Flexible assertive community treatment
Flexible assertive community treatment (FACT), also called Function ACT, is a Dutch adaptation of assertive community treatment serving all people with severe mental illness in a catchment area.
Flight of ideas
Flight of ideas (Ideenflucht) is a formal thought disorder of rapid, loosely linked topic shifts in pressured speech, a DSM-5 manic episode criterion in bipolar disorder, distinct from the subjective experience of racing thoughts.
Flupentixol
Flupentixol (flupenthixol), thioxanthene first-generation antipsychotic, ATC N05AF01, brands Depixol, Psytixol, Fluanxol; oral and decanoate depot forms for schizophrenia; D1/D2 blockade; 2-4 week depot action.
Fluphenazine
Fluphenazine is a high-potency typical antipsychotic of the phenothiazine class, used for psychosis in schizophrenia and available as oral tablets or a long-acting decanoate injection.
Focusing (psychotherapy)
Focusing (psychotherapy): experiential method by Eugene Gendlin, from 1950s research with Carl Rogers at University of Chicago; attends to the bodily felt sense via six steps from his 1978 book, basis of Focusing-Oriented Therapy.
Folie à deux
Folie à deux, or shared psychotic disorder, is a rare condition in which delusions are transmitted from an inducer to a close associate. Also called induced delusional disorder; subtypes include folie imposée, communiquée, simultanée, and induite.
Forensic psychiatry
Forensic psychiatry: medical subspecialty applying psychiatric expertise to legal questions (competency, criminal responsibility, risk). Key figures Isaac Ray, Alan Stone; defined by AAPL 2005; marked by dual clinical-forensic roles and bias concerns.
Forgetting
Forgetting: loss of the ability to retrieve previously acquired information, studied via interference, decay, retrieval-cue failure, and active forgetting mechanisms from Ebbinghaus's 1885 curve to modern engram neuroscience.
FOXG1 syndrome
FOXG1 syndrome, also called FOXG1-related encephalopathy or congenital variant of Rett syndrome, is a rare autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder caused by FOXG1 variants or 14q12 deletions, causing microcephaly, severe intellectual disability, dyskinesia, epilepsy, and absent speech.
FOXP1 Syndrome
FOXP1 syndrome is a rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations or deletions disrupting the FOXP1 gene, marked by intellectual disability, speech and language impairment, and autism.
Frances Cress Welsing
Frances Cress Welsing (1935–2016), also Frances Luella Welsing, American psychiatrist and Howard University M.D. (1962) who wrote the 1970 Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and The Isis Papers (1991), explaining racism as a global white-supremacy system.
Fregoli delusion
Fregoli delusion, or Fregoli syndrome, is a rare delusional misidentification syndrome in which a familiar person is believed to be disguising themselves as strangers; first described by Courbon and Fail in 1927, named after quick-change actor Leopoldo Fregoli, and linked to right-hemisphere frontal lesions in secondary cases.
Fritz Klein
Fritz Klein, born Fred Klein, was an Austrian-born American psychiatrist and bisexual activist who wrote The Bisexual Option and created the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid.
Frontotemporal dementia
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), also called Pick's disease historically, is a group of early-onset dementias with frontal and temporal lobe atrophy, behavioral or language decline, tau/TDP-43/FUS pathology, MAPT/GRN/C9orf72 genes, and no cure.
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), also called frontotemporal dementia (FTD), is a group of neurodegenerative diseases causing frontal and temporal lobe atrophy; leading early-onset dementia under 60, with tau, TDP-43, or FUS protein inclusions and C9orf72, GRN, MAPT mutations.
Functional family therapy
Functional family therapy (FFT) is a short-term, family-based treatment for adolescents with behavioral problems such as delinquency and substance use, developed at the University of Utah in 1969.
Gabor Maté
Gabor Maté (born 1944, Budapest) is a Hungarian-Canadian retired physician and author on addiction, trauma, and stress; Holocaust survivor, Downtown Eastside physician, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal, Order of Canada recipient.
Gabriele-de Vries syndrome
Gabriele-de Vries syndrome (GADEVS, YY1 haploinsufficiency syndrome, OMIM 617557): rare autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder from de novo YY1 variants or 14q32.2 deletions, causing intellectual disability, feeding and growth problems, dysmorphism, and congenital anomalies.
GAD-2
The GAD-2 is a two-item self-report questionnaire screening for probable generalized anxiety disorder, the ultra-brief version of the seven-item GAD-7, with a recommended cut-off score of 3.
Gender differences in suicide
Gender differences in suicide: the gender paradox, where women attempt suicide more often but men die more often, explained by method lethality, intent, help-seeking, and social roles, with global trends and prevention evidence.