safety behaviors

17:48 Dec 3, 2012 

Maybe you are right, I did read inattentively, as I was somehow surprised that 5 persons had agreed on the completely non-medical version of translation. Though surely I`m not insisting on my own translation as being "God`s truth".

17:42 Dec 3, 2012 

Но может быть лучше "защитные действия навязчивых/обсессивных состояний"? или при навязчивых/обсессивных состояниях

17:11 Dec 3, 2012 

You misunderstood what I wrote -- please reread. I WAS looking for the Russian technical term, and what you and some others suggested is fine. The point is that the English technical term means one thing to laymen and another thing (the opposite) to professional psychologists. So I needed the Russian technical term. Thanks

16:45 Dec 3, 2012 

If you, as you are saying yourself, do "NOT need what is meant in the specialized text" the question should not be put under the title "Medical - Psychology". The purpose of the text - a promotional document should be somehow indicated in the topic. Otherwise it misleads translators who sincerely want to help!

01:31 Dec 3, 2012 

I have found this term, which appears to mean something blander on the surface, for the compulsions you describe.

15:32 Dec 2, 2012 

Actually, this is a promotional document for my own monolingual English editing, and a colleague is translating it into Russian. I used the English term "safety behaviors" as an example of when the layman's ordinary understanding is NOT what is meant in the specialized text, and therefore it is helpful for the author to call that to my attention as the editor (but without advanced degree in psychology). If there is no set term for this in Russian that has the same ambiguity, we will use the English phrase and a term or phrase in Russian that clarifies the technical meaning. Both of the answers so far provided would work.