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disinhibition(medicine)
Disinhibition(health)

Bernanos, Georges (sh) and Disinhibition (health)


Bernanos, Georges (sh)




born Feb. 20, 1888, Paris, France
died July 5, 1948, Neuilly-sur-Seine

French novelist and polemical writer.

One of the most original and independent Roman Catholic writers of his time and a man of humour and humanity, he abhorred materialism and compromise with evil. His masterpiece, The Diary of a Country Priest (1936), is the story of a young priest's war against sin. Dialogues of the Carmelites (1949), a screenplay about 16 nuns martyred during the French Revolution, was the basis for an opera by Francis Poulenc (1957).


Disinhibition (health)


Freedom to act according to one's inner drives or feelings, with less regard for restraints imposed by cultural norms or one's superego; removal of an inhibitory, constraining, or limiting influence, as in the escape from higher cortical control in neurologic injury, or in uncontrolled firing of impulses, as when a drug interferes with the usual limiting or inhibiting action of GABA within the central nervous system.