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- noun A case of
overidentifying with something.
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Examples
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A kind of overidentification seems to take place with Holden and his complaints, to the detriment of the students, who should be given more positive models of how young people their age should think and behave.
The recommended daily allowance M-mv 2007
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A kind of overidentification seems to take place with Holden and his complaints, to the detriment of the students, who should be given more positive models of how young people their age should think and behave.
Archive 2007-09-01 M-mv 2007
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It was as if the raisin shone a light -- of hope -- on this patient's overidentification with the label, "depressed."
Jeffrey Hull, Ph.D.: You Are Not a Diagnosis Ph.D. Jeffrey Hull 2010
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It was as if the raisin shone a light -- of hope -- on this patient's overidentification with the label, "depressed."
Jeffrey Hull, Ph.D.: You Are Not a Diagnosis Ph.D. Jeffrey Hull 2010
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All this, combined with perfectionism, overidentification with one's work, and other dysfunctional attitudes, results in a whopping case of fear of failure, which should more properly be called terror of failure.
Hillary Rettig: How to Overcome Writer's Block Hillary Rettig 2010
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It was as if the raisin shone a light -- of hope -- on this patient's overidentification with the label, "depressed."
Jeffrey Hull, Ph.D.: You Are Not a Diagnosis Ph.D. Jeffrey Hull 2010
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All this, combined with perfectionism, overidentification with one's work, and other dysfunctional attitudes, results in a whopping case of fear of failure, which should more properly be called terror of failure.
Hillary Rettig: How to Overcome Writer's Block Hillary Rettig 2010
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By the same token, internships promote overidentification with employers: I make sacrifices to work free, therefore I must love my work.
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They became involved in liberal arts colleges rather than building Bible schools, engaged in social programs, and criticized conservative Protestantism's overidentification with militarism and unfettered capitalism.
Puncturing a gas bag ... Frank Wilson 2006
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The kind of pathologic overidentification that feeds into child abuse?
Devil's Waltz Kellerman, Jonathan 1992
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