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Inhibition, Psychological MeSH Descriptor Data 2026


MeSH Heading
Inhibition, Psychological
Tree Number(s)
F01.145.544
F02.463.425.475
F02.739.794.405
Unique ID
D007266
RDF Unique Identifier
http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007266
Annotation
human & animal
Scope Note
The interference with or prevention of a behavioral or verbal response even though the stimulus for that response is present; in psychoanalysis the unconscious restraining of an instinctual process.
Entry Term(s)
Inhibition (Psychology)
Inhibition, Psychology
Psychological Inhibition
Previous Indexing
Conditioning (Psychology) (1966-1970)
Learning (1966-1970)
Psychoanalytic Theory (1966-1970)
Public MeSH Note
2020; was INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY) 1971-2019
History Note
2020 (1971); was INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY) 1971-2019
Date Introduced
1971/01/01
Last Updated
2019/01/18

No Qualifiers
Inhibition, Psychological Preferred
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