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Loosening of associations:
flow of thought in which ideas SHIFT from one subject to another in an UNRELATED way
Derailment
DEVIATION in train of thought without blocking
Tangentiality
Inability to have goal directed associations of thought
NEVER gets from desired point to desired goal
Circumstantiality
Overinclusion of details and parenthetical remarks (ones in brackets)
Takes a LONG TIME to get to desired point
Knight's move
Abrupt JUMP from one idea to another midway through the first thought
A form of LOA
Word salad
Incoherent mixture of words and phrases
Neologism
New words created by the patient
Echolalia
Repeating of words or phrases of another person
Irrelevant answer
Answer that is not in harmony with a question asked
Blocking
Abrupt interruption in train of thinking before a thought or idea is finished
After a brief pause person indicates no recall of what was being said or was going to be said.
Clang associations
Associations of words SIMILAR IN SOUND not in meaning
May include rhyming and punning
Eg the train rain brained me. He are the skate inflated yesterdays gate towards the cheese grater
Flight of ideas
Rapid continuous verbalisations or play on words produce CONSTANT SHIFTING from ONE IDEA to ANOTHER
The ideas tend to be CONNECTED
Author
kavinashah
ID
50720
Card Set
Form of thought disturbances.txt
Description
thought
Updated
2010-11-20T15:05:39Z
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