stiffness, viscosity of emotional experiences, a tendency to long-term experience of feelings (especially unpleasant ones). The expression can be vindictiveness, stubbornness. Usually, emotional rigidity is a manifestation of the general torpid nature of mental processes, therefore it is combined with pathological thoroughness (viscosity) of thinking, a slowdown in the course of mental processes – bradyphrenia (see Bradyphrenia in Chapter 4.1. Definition of Psychological Disorders and Appropriate Methods of Their Treatment). Emotional rigidity is characteristic of the consequences of organic brain lesions (craniocerebral injury, epilepsy, etc.).