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| The expression of emotion as observed by others, outward manifestations that can be observed, can vary over time, in response to changing emotional states |
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| disharmony btwn the emotional feeling tone and the idea, thought, or speech accompanying it |
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| absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression; voice monotonous, face immobile |
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| pathological imitation of movements of one person by another |
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| motor anomalies in NON ORGANIC disorders |
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| general term for an immobile position that is constantly maintained |
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Cerea flexibilitas (waxy flexibilty)
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| the person can be molded into a position that is then maintained; when the examiner moves the person's limb, the limb feels as if it were made of wax |
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| motiveless resistance to all attempts to be moved or to all instructions |
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| repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech |
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General disturbance in for or process of thinking:
Psychosis |
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| inability to distinguish reality from fantasy; impaired reality testing, with creation of a new reality |
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Specific disturbances in form of thought:
Neologism |
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| new word created by the pt, often from combining syllables of other words, for idiosyncratic psychological reasons |
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Specific disturbances in form of thought:
word salad
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| incoherent misture of words and phrases |
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Specific disturbances in form of thought:
Circumstantiality
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| indirect speech that is delayed in reaching the point but eventually gets from original point to desired goal; characterized by an over inclusion of detail and parenthetical remarks |
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Specific disturbances in form of thought:
Tangentiality
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| inability to have goal-directed associations of thought; pt never gets from desired point to desired goal |
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Specific disturbances in form of thought:
Echolalia |
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| psychopathological repeating of words or phrases of one person by another; tends to be repetitive and persistent, may be spoken with mocking or staccato intonation |
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Specific disturbances in form of thought:
Losening of associations |
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| flow of thought in which ideas shift from one subject to another in a completely unrelated way; when severe, speech may be incoherent |
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Specific disturbances in form of thought:
Clang associations |
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| associations of words similar in sound but not meaning; words have no logical connection, may include rhyming and punning |
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Specific disturbances in form of thought:
Blocking
(thought deprivation) |
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| abrupt interruption in train of thinking before a thought or idea is finished; after brief pause, person indicates no recall of what was being said or was going to be said |
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Specific disturbances in content of thought:
Poverty of content |
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| thought that gives little info bc of vagueness, empt repetitions, or obscure phrases |
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Specific disturbances in content of thought:
delusions |
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| false belief, based on incorrect interference about external reality, not consistent with pt's intelligence and cultural background, that cannot be corrected by reasoning |
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Disturbances in Suggestibility:
Folie a deux
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| communicated emotional illness btwn two persons |
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| process of transferring physical stimulaiton into psychological info; mental process by which sensory stimuli are brought to awareness |
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Disturbances of perception:
Hallucination |
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| false sensory perception not associated with real external stimuli |
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Disturbances of Perception:
Auditory Hallucination |
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| false perception of sound, usually voices but also other noises such as music; most common hallucination in psychiatric disorders |
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Disturbances of Perception:
Visual Hallucinations
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| false perception involving sight consisting of both formed images (people) and unformed images (flashes of light) |
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Disturbances of Perception:
Olfactory hallucination |
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| false perception in smell; most common in organic disorders (usually stem from a brain tumor, not a psychotic d/o) |
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Disturbances of Perception:
Gustatory hallucination |
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| false perception of taste, such as unpleasant taste caused by an uncinate seizure; most commin in organic disorders |
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Disturbances of Perception:
tactile (haptic) hallucination |
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| false percpetion of touch or surface sensation, as from an amputated limb (phantom limb), crawling sensation on or under the skin (formication) |
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Disturbances of Perception:
Somatic Hallucination
(cenesthetic hallucination) |
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| false sensation of things occurring in or to the body, most often visceral in origin |
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Disturbances of Perception:
Illusion
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| misperception or misinterpretation of real external sensory stimuli |
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Delusional Disorders:
Erotomanic Type |
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| delusions that another person, usually of higher status, is in love with the individual |
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Delusional Disorders:
Grandiose Type
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| delusions of inflated worth, power, knowledge, identity, or special relationship to a deity or famous person |
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Delusional Disorders:
Jealous Type
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| delusions that the individual's sexual partner is unfaithful |
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Delusional Disorders:
Persecutory Type
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| delusions that the person (or someone to whom the person is close) is being malevolently treated in some way |
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Delusional Disorders:
Somatic Type
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| delusions that the person has some physical defect or general medical condition ( three main types- parasitosis, dysmorphophobia, foul body odors or hallitosis) |
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Delusional Disorders:
Mixed Type
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| delusions characterized of more than one type but no one theme predominates |
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