#neglect

• Abandonment — The act of leaving, or permanently giving up on a person (child, partner), an asset, or an ongoing action. In clinical psychology and psychiatry, it is a central concept studied for its profound impact on emotional development, generating attachment traumas, severe anxiety, and persistent dysfunctional cognitive schemas.
• Patient abandonment — The act of abandoning; the deliberate desertion of a vulnerable individual (minor, chronically ill person, elderly person) who is unable to care for themselves. In forensic medicine and bioethics, abandonment constitutes a severe breach of the duty of medical or familial care, legally classified as a form of severe neglect abuse with direct vital implications.
• Abandoned — Having been left alone, deserted, or deprived of parental, medical, or emotional care; a clinical descriptor used for subjects who experienced a brutal severance of primary attachment bonds. Psychologically, an abandoned child or patient displays a major risk of developing anxiety-depressive disorders and borderline personality disorders.
• Adultification — The act of adultifying and its dynamic outcome; the psychosocial process whereby a child or adolescent is forced to assume adult roles, decisions, and responsibilities before being emotionally and cognitively prepared. Adultification frequently occurs in environments impacted by poverty, neglect, or chronic parental illness, recognized as a subtle form of emotional abuse affecting self-esteem and future personality structures.
• Allokinesia — A neurological motility disorder characterized by the erroneous execution of a movement or by the involuntary moving of a limb in the opposite direction to that requested or intended by the patient. This structural motor dysfunction phenomenon is often associated with bilateral or unilateral frontal lobe lesions, basal ganglia dysfunction, or complex motor neglect syndromes.
• To ignore oneself — To ignore oneself; to knowingly or unconsciously neglect one's own person, desires, fundamental needs, health status, or social existence. In clinical psychology, the behavior often reflects a dysfunctional self-defense mechanism or low self-esteem, with the individual exclusively prioritizing external demands over their own psychosomatic balance.
• Self-neglect — The act of ignoring oneself and its result; the conscious or subconscious psychological process through which an individual minimizes, represses, or completely neglects their own emotional, biological, and social needs. In modern therapeutic terminology, this phenomenon is correlated with burnout syndrome and the systematic denial of one's own identity in favor of external imperatives.
• Self-ignored — Overlooked or neglected by oneself; withdrawn from one's own attention, desires, or fundamental rights. The term describes the state of an individual who has intentionally or unconsciously placed themselves last in the hierarchy of their existential priorities, as well as inner traits or talents that a person refuses to recognize and develop.