APA Dictionary of Psychology

dramatization

Updated on 04/19/2018
n.
  1. attention-getting behavior, such as exaggerating the symptoms of an illness to make it appear more important than the occurrence of the same illness in another person.
  2. in psychoanalytic theory, the expression of repressed wishes or impulses in dreams. —dramatize vb.
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