brooding

(thinking compulsion)

is a kind of:

• psychopathology
• psychopathology » symptom

Persistent contemplation associated with anxiety and/or depressed mood.

This term appears in...

• psychoanalysis
• psychodynamic psychotherapy

See also:

- Choose - brooding spell intellectualization psychoanalysis psychodynamic psychotherapy worry

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