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  • noun psychology Repression of painful thoughts.
  • noun psychology Inability to continue a train of thought.

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  • noun an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension

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  • JM is trying to draw a cube but keeps getting a mental block.

    May 25, 2011