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Abreaction
Process thru which a repressed material is re-experienced and re-lived
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Abulia
- reduced ability to act or think because of indifference about consequence of actions
- due to depression, neurological deficits, schizophrenia
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Acalculia
inability to do calculations
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Acataphasia
- disordered speech in which statements are incorrectly formulated
- inappropriate words and expressions
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Acathexis
lack of feeling associated with ordinarily emotionally charged subject
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Acenethasia
lack of sensation of physical existence
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Acrophobia
dread of high places
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Acting out
behavioral response in response to an unconcious drive that brings relief of inner tension
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Aculalia
disorderd speech associated with impaired comprehension
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Adiodiochokinesia
- cant perform rapid alternating movements
- due to neurological deficits and cerebellar lesions
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Adynamia
weakness and fatigability
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Aerophagia
excessive air swallowing
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Affect
emotions associated with ideas
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Ageusia
lack or impairment of taste
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Aggression
forcefull, goal oriented action that can be verbal or physical
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Agitation
anxiety bc of motor restlessness
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Agnosia
cant recognize objects
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Bradykinesia
slow motor movements
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Bruxism
grinding of teeth
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Carebaria
discomfort in the head
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Catalepsy
maintaining a body position we're placed into
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Cataplexy
loss of muscle tone
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Catatonic excitation
uncontrolled muscle activity
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Catatonic posturing
voluntary assumption of inappropriate behavior
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Catatonic rigidity
fixed motor posturing
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catatonic stupor
patients are aware of their surroundings
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Cathexis
investement of energy into an idea
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Cenesthesia
change in the normal quality in the feeling of the body
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cerea Flexibilitas
being able to mold a body into a specific position
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CHorea
quick jerky movements in Huntingtons
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Circumstantiality
digressing into details before communicating central idea
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Clang association
association of words based on sound
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Predictors of violent behavior
- EToh intake
- childhood abuse
- history of violence
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Claustrophobia
fear of closed spaces
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Cluttering
disturbance of speech
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Coma Vigil
coma from which a person awake
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History of bedwetting is predictable of what?
violent behavior
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Conation
person's mental life concerned with drives and motivations
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Condensation
symbol stands for many components
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Confabulation
filling in memory gaps with fictional stories
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Constructional apraxia
inability to draw and object
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Coprolalia
involuntary use of abscene language or symbols as in Tourette's
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Cryptographia
private written language
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Cryptolalia
private spoken language
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Cycloplegia
paralysis of muscle of accomodation of the eye
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Decompensation
Decreased psychic functioning due to breakdown of defense mechanisms
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Deja enteda
illusion that what is heard has been heard previously
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Delirium tremens
acute and sometimes fatal reaction to alcohol withdrawal
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Delusion of control
belief that your will and thoughts are controlled by others
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Delusion of Grandeur
overemphasis on one's importance
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Delusion of Infidelity
belief that one's lover is unfaithfull
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Alexithymia?
inability to identify or verbalize feeling states
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Gender role
behavior of the person that is culturally defined as masculine or feminine
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Gender identity
inner sense of maleness or femaleness
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sexual identity
biological pattern of sexual identity
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Behavior
sum total of psyche that includes motivation, drives, wishes,
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Agoraphobia
fear of open spaces
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Agraphia
loss of ability to write
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Ailurophobia
fear of cats
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Akathesia
feeling of motor restleness
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Akinesia
lack of physical movement
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Akinetic mutism
absence of voluntary movement or speech in a patient who is alert
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Alexia
loss of reading ability
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Alexithymia
not being able to describe ones own emotions
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Alogaphobia
Dread of pain
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Alogia
inability to speak because of mental deficiency or an episode of dementia
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Ambivalence
coexistence of 2 opposing impulses toward the same thing in the same person at the same time
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Amima
Lack of the ability to make or comprehend gestures made by other
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Amnesia
partial or total inability to recall past experiences
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Amnetic aphasia
disturbed capacity to name objects even though they are known to the patient
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Anaclitic
depending on others, especially as the infant on the mother
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Analgesia
state in which one feels little or no pain
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Anancasm
repetitious or stereotyped behavior or thought usually used as a tension relieving device
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Androgymy
combination of culturally determined female and male characteristics in one person
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Anhedonia
loss of interest in and withdrawal from all regular and pleasurable activities
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Anomia
inability to recall the names of objects even a pt known them
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Anorexia
loss or decrease in apetite
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Anosognosia
inability to recognize a physical deficit in onself
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Anterograde amnesia
loss of memory events subsequent to the onset of the amnesia
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Anxiety
feeling of apprehension
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Apathy
dulled emotional tone associated with detachement
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Aphasia
any disturbance in the comprehension or expression of language caused by a brain lesion
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Asyndesis
disorder of language in which the patient combines unconnected ideas and images
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Ataxia
lack of coordination, physical or mental
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Atonia
lack of muscle tone
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Auditory Hallucination
False perception or sound
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Aura
warning sensation, such as automatism, fullness in stomach, blushing and changes in respiration
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Autistic thinking
thinking in which thoughts are largely narcissistic and egocentric with emphasis on subjectivity rather than objectivity
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Apperception
awareness of meaning and significance of a particular sensory stimulus as modified by ones own experience
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Appropriate affect
emotional tone in harmony with the accompanying idea, thought or speech
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Apraxia
inability to perform a voluntary motor activity
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Astasia Abasia
inability to stand or to walk in a normal manner
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Astereognosia
inability to identify familiar objects by touch
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Delusion of persecution?
False belief of being harassed or persecuted
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Delusion of poverty
falso belief that one is bereft or will be deprived of all material possessions
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Delusion of reference?
false belief that the behavior of others refers to oneself or that events or actions have a particular and unusual significance
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Delusion of self-accusation
false feeling of remorse and guilt
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Dementia
mental disorder characterized by general impairment in intellectual thinking without the loss of consciousness
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Denial
defense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realitites is diavowed
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Depersonalization
sensation of unreality concerning onself, a part of one self or one's environment that occurs under extreme stress
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Depression
mental state characterized by feeling of sadness, loneliness, dispair and low self esteem
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Derailment
Gradual or sudden deviation in train of thought without blocking
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Derealization
sensation of changed reality or that one's surrounding have changed
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Dereism
Mental activity that follows a totally subjective and indiosyncratic system of logic and fails to take the facts of reality or experience into consideration
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Detachment
Characterized by distant interpersonal relationships and lack of emotional involvement
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Devaluation
Defense mechanism in which a person attributes excessive negative qualities to self or others
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Diminished Libido
decreased sex drive
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Dipsomania
compulsion to drink alcoholic beverages
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Disinhibition?
removal of an inhibitory effect as in disinhibition of cerebral cortex due to alcohol
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Disorientation
confusion: impairment of time, place or person
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Displacement
unconscious defense mechanism by which the emotional component of an unacceptable idea or object is transferred to a more acceptable one
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Unconscious defense mechanism involving the segregation of any group of mental or behavioral processes from the rest of the persons psychic activity
Dissociation
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Inability to focus one's attention. Pt does not respond to the task at hand but attends to irrelevant phenomenon in the environment
Distractability
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Dread
Massive or pervasive anxiety
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Altered state of consciousness likened to a dream state
Dreamy state
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State of impaired awareness associated with a desire or inclination to sleep
Drowsiness
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Difficulty in articulation
Dysarthia
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Difficulty in calculation
Dyscalculia
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Impaired sense of taste
Dysgeusia
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Difficulty in writing
Dysgraphia
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Difficulty in performing movements
Dyskinesia
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Faulty articulation caused by structural abnormality of the articulator organs or impaired hearing
Dyslalia
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Specific learning disability syndrome involving an impairment of previously acquired ability to read
Dyslexia
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Impaired ability to gauge distant with respect to movement
Dysmetria
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Impaired memory
dysmnesia
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Physical pain in sexual intercourse
Dyspeurenia
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Difficulty in swallowing?
Dysphagia
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Difficulty in comprehending oral language or expressing verbal language?
Dysphasia
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Difficulty or pain in speaking?
Dysphonia
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Feeling of unpleasantness or discomfort
Dysphoria
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Loss of normal speech melody
Dysprosody
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Extrapyramidal motor disturbance consisting of slow, sustained contractions of the axial or appendicular masculature?
Dystonia
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Psychopathological repeating of words or phrases of one person by another
Echolalia
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Denoting aspects of a person's personality that are viewed as repugnant, unacceptable or inconsistent with the rest of the personality
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Self centered
Ego-centric
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Morbid selfpreoccupaton or self-centeredness
Egomania
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Denoting aspects of a person's personality that are acceptable and consistent with a person's personality
Ego-Syntonic
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Unusually vivid or exact mental image of objects previously seen or imagined
Eidetic image
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Mood consisting of intense sense of joy, euphoria and self satisfaction
Elation
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Air of confidence and enjoyment
elevated mood
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Complex feeling state with psychic, somatic and behavioral components
Emotion
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A level of understanding or awareness that one has emotional problems
Emotional Insight
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Excessive emotional responsiveness characterized by unstable and rapidly changing emotions
Emotional lability
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Involuntary passage of feces usually at night or in sleep
encopresis
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Incontinence of urine during sleep?
enuresis
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Delusional belief more common in women that someone is in love with them
Erotomania
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Abnormal fear of blushing?
erythrophobia
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Exaggerated feeling of well-being that is inappropriate to real events
eurphoria
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Normal range of mood, implying the absence of depression and elevated mood
euthymia
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Act of not facing up to, or strategically eluding something
Evasion
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Feeling of intense elation and grandeur
exaltation
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Agitated purposeless motor activity not being solicited by an external stimulit
excited
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Expression of feelings without restraint, frequently with an overestimation of their importance and significance
Expansive mood
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Disturbance of speech in which the ability to comprehend is intact but the ability to express language is impaired?
Expressive aphasia
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difficulty in expressing verbal language
Expressive dysphasia
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more general term than projection that refers to the tendency to perceive in the external world elements of one's own personality
Externalization
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State of one's energies being directed outside of oneself
Extroversion
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A person's recollection and belief of an event that did not actually occur
False memory
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Fabricated mental picture of a situation or series of event, daydream
Fantasy
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A feeling of weariness, irritability, sleepiness after a period of mental or physical activity
Fatigue
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False recognition
Fassue Recognisance
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Unpleasureable emotional state consisting of psychophysiological changes in response to a real threat
Fear
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Absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression
flat affect
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Rapid succession of fragmentary thoughts or speech in which content changes rapidly and maybe incoherent
flight of ideas
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Aimless plucking or picking usually at bedclothes or clothes
flocillation
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aphasia characterized by the inability to understand spoken word
Fluent aphasia/Wernickes
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Mental illness shared by two people, usually involving a common delusional system
Folie a deux
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Disturbance in the form rather than content of the thought
Formal thought disorder
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Tactile hallucination involving the sensation that tiny insects are crawling on the skin
formication
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Free, pervasive, generalized anxiety that is not attached to any particular idea, person or place
Free-floating anxiety
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Dissociative disorder characterized by a period of almost complete amnesia, during which the person actually flees from an immediate life situation and begins a different life pattern
Fugue
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Abnormal discharge of milk from a breast
Galactorrhea
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Generalized onset of clonic-tonic movements of the limbs, tongue biting and incontinence followed by a gradual slow recovery of consciousness and cognition
Generalized tonic-clonic seizure
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Combination of grossly non fluent aphasia and severe fluent aphasia
Global Aphasia
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Unintelligible jargon that has meaning to the speaker but not to the listener
Glossolalia
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Exaggerated feelings of one's importance, power, knowledge
Grandiosity
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Alteration in mood and affect appropriate to a real loss
Grief
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Emotional state associate with reproach and a need for punishment
Guilt
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Hallucination primarily involving taste
Gustatory hallucination
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Female-like development of male breasts
Gynecomastia
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False sensory perception occurring in the absence of any relevant external stimulation of the sensory modalities
Hallucinatioin
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State in which a person experiences hallucinations without any impairment in consciousness
hallucinosis
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Hallucination of touch
Haptic hallucination
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Complex of symptoms considered a form of schizophrenia
Hebephrenia
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Using a single word to express many ideas
Holophrastic
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Increased muscular activity
Hyperactivity
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Excessive sensitivity to pain
Hyperalgesia
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Increased sensitivity to tactile stimulation
Hyperesthesia
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Exaggerated degree of retention and recall
Hypermnesia
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Increase in appetite and intake of food
Hyperphagia
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excessive thinking and mental activity
Hyperpragia
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Excessive time spent asleep
Hypersomnia
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Excessive breathing generally associated with anxiety which can reduce blood CO2 concentration
Hyperventilation
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Excessive attention and focus on all internal and external stimuli
Hypervigilance
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Diminished sensitivity to tactile stimulation
Hypoesthesia
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Hallucination occurring while falling asleep, not ordinarily considered pathological
Hypnagogic
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Hallucination occurring while awakening from sleep
Hypnopompic
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artificially induced alteration of consciousness characterized by increased suggestibility and receptivity to direction
Hypnosis
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decreased motor and cognitive activity as in psychomotor retardation
Hypoactivity
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exaggerated concern about health that is based not on real medical pathology but on unrealistic interpretations of physical signs and symptoms
Hypochondria
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Mood abnormality with the qualitative characteristics of mania, but somewhat less intense
Hypomania
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Misinterpretation of incidents and events in the outside world as having direct personal reference to onself
Idea of reference
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Thinking containing erroneous conclusions or internal contradictions
Illogical thinking
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Perceptual misinterpertation of a real external stimulus
Illusion
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Reproduction, recognition or recall of perceived material within seconds after presentation
Immediate memory
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Diminished ability to understand the objective reality of a situation
Impaired insight
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Diminished ability to understand a situation correctly and to act appropriately
Impaired Judgement
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Ability to resist an impulse, drive or temptation to perform some action
Impulse control
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Emotional tone out of harmony with the idea, thought or speech accompanying it
Inappropriate affect
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Communication that is disconnected, disorganized or incomprehensible
Incoherence
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Primitive unconscious defense mechanism in which the psychic representation of another person or aspects of another person are assimilated to onself thru a figurative process of symbolic oral digestion
Incorporation
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Increase in sexual interest and drive
Increased libido
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Ecstatic state in which persons insist that their experience is inexpressible and indescribable and that it is impossible to convey what it is like to one who has never experienced it
Ineffability
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Falling asleep with difficulty, usually seen in anxiety disorders
Initial insomnia
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Conscious recognition of ones own condition
Insight
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Difficulty in falling asleep or difficulty in staying asleep
Insomnia
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Knowledge of the reality of a situation without the ability to use that knowledge successfully to effect an adaptive change in behavior or to master the situation
Intellectual insight
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Capacity for learning and ability to recall, integrate constructively and to apply what one has learned
Intelligence
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Mental Disorder caused by recent ingestion or presence in the body of an exogenous substance producing maladaptive by virtue of its effects on the CNS
Intoxication
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Turning anger inward toward onself
Intropunitive
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Contemplating one's own mental process to achieve insight
Introspection
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state in which a persons energies are directed inward toward oneself
Introversion
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Answer that is not responsive to the question
Irrelevant answer
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Abnormal or excessive excitability with easily triggered anger, annoyance or impatience
Irritability
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State in which one is easily annoyed and provoked to anger
irritable mood
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Paramnestic phenomenon characterized by a false feeling of unfamiliarity with a real situation that one has previously exprienced
Jamais vu
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Aphasia in which the words produced neologistic that is nonsense words created by the patient
Jargon Aphasia
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Mental act of comparing or evaluating choices within the framework of a given set of values for the purpose or electing a course of action
Judgement
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Pathological Compulsion to steal
Kleptomania
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Inappropriate attitude of calm or lack of concern about one's disability
La belle indifference
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Affective expression charaterized by rapid and abrupt changes unrelated to external stimuli
Labile effect
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Oscillations in mood between euphoria and depression or anxiety
Labile mood
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Condition characterized by a reduction in quantitiy of spontaneous speech
Laconic speech
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Momentary forgetting of a name or proper noun
Lethologica
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Visual sensation that persons or objects are reduced in size
lilliputian hallucination
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Partial loss of memory; amnesia restricted to specific or isolated experiences
localized amnesia
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Copious, pressured, coheren speech;
Logorrhea
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Reproduction, recognition or recall of experiences or information that was experienced in the distant past
Long-term memory
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Characteristic schizophrenic thinking or speech disturbance involving a disorder in the logical progression of thoughts
Loosening of associations
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False perception that objects are larger than they are
macropsia
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A form of dereistic thought: thinking similar to that of the preoperational phase in children
Magical thinking
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Feigning disease to achieve a specific goal
malingering
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Mood state characterized by elation, agitation, hyperactivity, hypersexuality, and accelerated thinking and speaking
Mania
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Maneuvering by patients to get their own way characteristic of antisocial personalitites
manipulation
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Ingrained, habitual involuntary movement
Mannerism
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Severe depressive state
Melancholia
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Process whereby what is experienced or learned is established as a record in the CNS
memory
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Psychiatric illness or disease whose manifestations are primarily characterized by hebavioral or psychological impairment of function,
mental disorder
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Subaverage general intellectual functioning that originates in the developmental period and is associated with impaired maturation and learning
mental retardation
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Speech disturbance common in schizophrenia in which the affected person uses a word or phrase that is related to the proper one but is not the one ordinarily used
metonymy
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Condition in which the head is unusually small as a result of defective brain development
Microcephaly
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False perception that objects are smaller than they really are
micropsia
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Waking up after falling asleep without difficulty and then having difficulty in falling asleep again
middle insomnia
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Simple, imitative motion activity of childhood
mimicry
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Mental state characterized by preoccupation with one subject
monomania
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Pervasive and sustained feeling tone that is experienced internally and that , in the extreme can markedly influence virtually all aspects of a persons behavior and perception of the world
Mood
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Delusion with content that is mood appropriate
Mood-congruent delusion
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Hallucination with content that is consistent with a depressed or manic mood
mood-conguent hallucination
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Delusion based on incorrect reference about external reality, with content that has no association to mood or is mood inappropriate
Mood-incongruent delusion
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Hallucination not associated with real external stimuli
Mood-incongruent hallucination
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Oscillation of a person's emotional feeling tone between periods of elation and periods of depression
Mood swings
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Aphasia in which understanding is intact, but the ability to speak is lost
Motor aphasia
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Syndrome following loss of a loved one, consisting of preoccupation with the lost individual, weeping, sadness and repeated reliving of memories
mourning
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State in which the muscles remain immovable
Muscle rigidity
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Organic or functional absence of the faculty of speech
Mutism
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Dilation of the pupil
mydriasis
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In psychoanalytic theory, divided into primary and secondary types:primary narcissism, the early infantile phase of object relatioship development, when the child has not differentiated the self from the outside world
Narcissism
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The persistent, intense, pathological fear of receiving an injection
needle phobia
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In schizophrenia: flat affect, alogia,abulia and apathy
negative signs
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Verbal or nonverbal opposition or resistance to outside suggestions and advice
negativism
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New word or phrase whose derivation cannot be understood
neologism
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Auditory amnesia:loss of ability to comprehend sounds of speech
Neurological amnesia
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Delusion of the nonexistence of the self or part of the self
nihilism
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depressive delusion that the world and everything related to it have ceased to exist
nihilistic delusion
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revelation in which immense illumination occurs in association with a sense that one has been chosen to lead and command
noeisis
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aphasia characterized by difficulty in giving the correct name of an object
nominal aphasia
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abnormal, excessive, insatiable desire in a woman for sexual intercourse
nymphomania
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persistent and recurrent idea, thought or impulse that cannot be eliminated from consciousness by logic or reasoning
obsession
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hallucination primarily involving smell or odors
olfactory hallucination
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state of awareness of oneself and ones surroundings in terms of time, place and person
orientation
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abnormality in motor behavior that can manifest itself as psychomotor agitation, hyperactivity, tics , sleepwalking or compulsions
overactivity
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false or unreasonable belief or idea that is sustained beyond the bounds of reason
overvalued idea
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acute, intense attacke of anxiety associated with personality disorganization
panic
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overwhelming fear of everything
panphobia
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gesticulation;psychodrama without the use of words
pantomime
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disturbance of memory in which reality and fantasy are confused. it is observed in dreams and in certain types of schizophrenia and organic mental disorders
paramnesia
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rare psychiatric syndrome marked by the gradual development of a highly elaborate and complex delusional system
paranoia
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includes persecutory delusions and delusions of reference, control and grandeur
paranoid delusions
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Thinking dominated by suspicious, persecutory, or grandiose content of less than delusional proportions
paranoid ideation
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abnormal speech in which one word is substituted for another, the irrelevant word generally resembling the required one in morphology, meaning or phonetic composition
paraphasia
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faulty act, such as a slip of the tongue or the misplacement of an article
parapraxis
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weakness or partial paralysis of organic origin
paresis
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abnormal spontaneous tactile sensation, such as a burning, tingling or pins and needles sensation
paresthesia
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conscious awareness of elements in the environment by the mental processing of sensory stimuli
perception
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Pathological repetition of the same response to different stimuli, as in a repetition of the same verbal response to different questions
perseveration
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false sensation that an extremity that has been lost is in fact present
phantom limb
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persisten, pathological unrealistic intense fear of an object or situation
phobia
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craving and easting of nonfood substances such as paint and clay
pica
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pathological overeating
polyphagia
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in schizophrenia:hallucinations, delusion and thought disorder
positive signs
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strange, fixed, and bizzare bodily positions held by a patient for an extended time
posturing
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speech that is adequate in amount, but conveys little information because of vagueness, emptiness or sterotyped phrases
poverty of speech content
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Restriction in the amount of speech used
poverty of speech
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centering of thought content on a particular idea, associated with a strong affective tone, such as a paranoid trend or a suicidal or homicidal preoccupation
preoccupation of thought
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Increase in the amount of spontaneous speech, rapid, loud, accelerated speech
pressured speech
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In psychoanalysis, the mental activity directly related to the functions of the id and characteristic of unconscious mental process, marked by primitive, prelogical thinking
primary process thinking
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unconscious defense mechanism in which persons attribute to another those generally unconscious ideas, thoughts, feeling and impulses that are in themselves undesirable or unacceptable as a form of protection from anxiety arising from an inner conflict
projection
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inability to recognize familiar faces that is not caused by impaired visual acuity or level of consciousness
prosopagnosia
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rare condition in which a non pregnant patient has the signs and symptoms of pregnancy, such as abdominal distention, breast enlargement, pigmentation, cessation of menses and morning sickness
pseudocyesis
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dementia like disorder that can be reversed by appropriate treatment and is not caused by organic brain disease
pseudodementia
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disorder characterized by uncontrollable lying in which the patients elaborate extensive fantasies that they freely communicate and act on
pseudologia phantastica
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physical and mental overactivity that is usually nonproductive and is associated with a feeling of inner turmoil as seen in agitated depression
psychomotor agitation
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mental disorder in which the thoughts, affective response, ability to recognize reality and ability to communicate and relate to others are sufficiently impaired to interfere grossly with the capacity to deal with reality
psychosis
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person experiencing psychosis
psychotic
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an unconscious defense mechanism in which irrational or unacceptable behavior, motives or feelings are logically justified or made consciously tolerable by plausible means
rationalization
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unconscious defense mechanism in which a person develops a socialized attitude or interest that is the direct antithesis of some infantile wish or impulse that is harbored
reaction formation
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fundamental ego function that consists of tentative actions that test and objectively evaluate the nature and limits of the environment
reality testing
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process of bringing stored memories into consciousness
recall
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recall of events over the past few days
recent memory
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recall of events over the past few months
recent past memory
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organic loss of ability to comprehend the meaning of words
receptive aphasia
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Difficulty in comprehending oral language. impairment involves comprehension and production of language
receptive dysphasia
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Unconscious defense mechanism in which a person undergoes a partial or total return to earlier patterns of adaptation
regression
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recall of events from distant past
remote memory
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freud's term for an unconscious defense mechanism in which unacceptable mental contents are banished or kept out of consciousness
repression
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reduction in intesity of feeling tone, which is less severe than in blunted affect but clearly reduced
restricted affect
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retrograde amnesia
loss of memory for events preceding the onset of amnesia
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memory becomes unintentionally distorted by being filtered through a persons present emotional, cognitive and experiential state
retrospective falsification
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in psychiatry, a persons resistance to change, a personality trait
rigidity
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formalized activity practiced by a person to reduce anxiety as in ocd
ritual
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constant preoccupation with thinking about a single idea or theme as in OCD
rumination
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morbid, insatiable sexual need or desire in a man
satyriasis
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in psychiatry a figurative blind spot in a persons psychological awareness
scotome
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in psychoanalysis, the form of thinking that is logical, organized , reality oriented and influenced by the demands of the environment
secondary process thinking
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an attack or sudden onset of certain symptoms such as convulsions, loss of consciousness and psychic or sensory disturbances
seizure
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hypothetical sensory center in the brain that is involved with clarity of awareness about onself and one's surroundings, including the ability to perceive and to process ongoing events in light of past experiences, future options and current circumstances
sensorium
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organic loss of ability to comprehend the meaning of words, fluid and spontaneous, but incoherent nonsensical speech
sensory aphasia
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neurological sign operationally defined as failure to report one of two simultaneously presented sensory stimuli, despite that either stimulus alone is correctly
sensory extinction
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failure to live up to self expectations often associated with fantasy of how person will be seen by others
shame
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reproduction, recognition or recall or perceived material within minutes
short term memory
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Simultanagnosia
impairment in the perception or integration of visual stimuli appearing simultaneously
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Delusion pertaining to the functioning of one's body
somatic delusion
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hallucination involving the perception of a physical experience localized within the body
somatic hallucination
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inability to recognize a part of one's body as one's own
somatopagnosia
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pathological sleepiness or drowsiness from which one can be aroused to a normal state of consciousness
somnolence
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inability to recongnize spatial relations
spatial agnosia
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expression of a revelatory message through unintelligible words
speaking in tongues
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continuous mechanical repetition of speech or physical activities
stereotypy
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state of decreased reactivity to stimuli and less than full awareness of ones surroundings
stupor
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frequent repetition or prolongation of a sound or syllable, leading to markedly impaired speech fluency
stuttering
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unconscious defense mechanism in which the energy associated with unacceptable impulses or drives is diverted into personally and socially acceptable channels
sublimation
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unconscious defense mechanism in which a person replaces an unacceptable wish, drive, emotion or goal with one that is more acceptable
substitution
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state of uncritical compliance with influence or of uncritical acceptance of an idea, belief, or attitude
suggestibility
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thoughts or act of taking one's own life
suicidal ideation
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conscious act of controlling and inhibiting an unacceptable impulse, emotion or idea
suppression
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unconscious defense mechanism in which one idea or object comes to stand for another because of some common aspect or quality in both
symbolization
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condition in which the stimulation of one sensory modality is perceived as sensation in a different modality as when a sound produces a sensation of color
synesthesia
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aphasia characterized by difficulty in understanding spoken speech,
syntactical aphasia
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group of elaborate delusions related to a single event or theme
systematized delusion
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hallucination primarily involving the sense of touch
tactile hallucination
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oblique, digressive or even irrelevant manner of speech in which the central idea is not communicated
tangentiality
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physiological or psychic arousal, uneasiness or pressure toward action
tension
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early morning awakening or waking up at least 2 hours before planning to wake up
terminal insomnia
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feeling that one's thought are being broadcast or projected into the environment
thought broadcasting
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any disturbance of thinking that affects language, communication, or thought content
thought disorder
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delusion that thoughts are being implanted in ones mind by other people or forces
thought insertion
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the period of time between a thought and its verbal expression
thought latency
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delusion that ones thoughts are being removed from ones mind by other people or forces
thought withdrawal
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predominantely psychogenic disorders characterized by involuntary, spasmodic, stereotyped movement of small group of muscles
tic disorders
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noises in one or both ears, such as ringing buzzing, or clicking
tinnitus
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convulsion in which the muscle contraction is sustained
tonic convulsion
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perceptual abnormality associated with hallucinogenic drugs in which moving objects are seen as a series of discrete and discontinuous images
trailing phenomenon
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sleep like state of reduced consciousness and activity
trance
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rhythmical alteration in movement, which is usually faster than one beat a second
tremor
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understanding of the objective reality of a situation coupled with the motivational and emotional impetus to master the situation or change behavior
true insight
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twilight state
disturbance consciousness with hallucinations
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sign present in autistic children who continually rotate in the direction in the direction in which their head is turned
twirling
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one of the three divisions of freud's topographic theory of the mind( the others being the conscious and the preconscious) in which the psychic material is not readily accessible to conscious awareness by ordinary means
unconscious
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unconscious primitive defense mechanism, repetitive in nature, by which a person symbolically acts out in reverse something unacceptable that has already been done or against which the ego must defend itself
undoing
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feeling of mystic unity with an infinite power
unio mystica
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in depression, denoting characteristic symptoms such as sleep disturbance(especially early morning awakening), decreased appetite, constipation, weight loss, and loss of sexual response
vegetative signs
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meaningless and stereotyped repetition of words or phrases as seen in schizophrenia
verbigeration
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sensation that one or the world around one is spinning or revolving
vertigo
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inability to recognize objects or persons
visual agnosia
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hallucination primarily involving the sense of sight
visual hallucination
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condition in which a person maintains the body position into which they are placed
waxy flexibilty
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use of conventional words in an unconventional or inappropriate way
word approximation
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incoherent, essentially incomprehensible , misture or words and phrases commonly seen in far advanced cases of schizphrenia
word salad
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xenophobia
abnormal fear of strangers
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abnormal fear of animals
zoophobia
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