Glossary I

Glossary I

Insight therapies refer to a group of psychotherapies in which verbal interactions are intended to enhance clients' self -knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behavior.

Insight-oriented psychotherapy refers to a psychotherapy based on the principles of psychoanalysis in which persons develop a conscious awareness and understanding of their own psychodynamics and symptoms of maladaptive behavior. There is greater emphasis on day-to-day reality issues and a lesser emphasis on the development of transference issues than in psychoanalysis. (see psychoanalysis)

Insightful learning refers to learning that involves perceiving the solution to a problem after a period of cognitive trial and error.

Insightfulness refers to caregivers' capacity to understand an infant’s motives, emotions, and behaviors and to take them into account when responding to the infant; thought to be an important contributor to sensitive caregiving.

Deutsch: Schlaflosigkeit / Español: Insomnio / Português: Insônia / Français: Insomnie / Italiano: Insonnia /

Insomnia is defined as the inability to fall asleep, to maintain sleep, or to get back to sleep at night. It is a type of dyssomnia that involves difficulty in initiating or maintaining sleep; chronically non-restorative sleep; difficulty in getting to sleep or staying asleep; also, not feeling rested after sleeping.

Insomnolent means sleepless. Insomnolent also refers to a person who is afflicted with insomnia.

Insouciant means happily unconcerned; carefree; nonchalant.

Instability is an organizational climate in which people are not sure what to do.