overinhibited
adjEtymology From over- + inhibited.
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Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences Excessively inhibited.
- Twenty-five overinhibited children and twenty-five unsocialized aggressive children were followed up in the spring of 1944.1946, Lester Eugene Hewitt, Richard Leos Jenkins, Fundamental patterns of maladjustment: the dynamics of their origin:
- Overinhibited children often benefit cathartically from dramatic play.1968, Richard Courtney, Play, drama and thought: