Abnormalities of Thought Content Ch 4

Question 1

Compulsions

Answer 1

Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that a person feels driven to perform in order to produce or prevent some future state of affairs, although expectation of such an effect is unrealistic NEUROTIC

Question 2

Obsessions

Answer 2

Recurrent, uncontrollable thoughts, images, or impulses that a person considers unacceptable and alien NEUROTIC

Question 3

Anxieties

Answer 3

Apprehensions, fears, tensions, or uneasiness that may be focused (phobia) or free-floating (a general sense of ill-defined dead or impending doom) NEUROTIC

Question 4

Feeling of unreality

Answer 4

A sesne that things in the environment are strange, unreal, or remote PSYCHOTIC

Question 5

Feelings of depersonalization

Answer 5

A sense that one’s self is different, changed, or unreal, or has lost identity or become detached from one’s mind or body PSYCHOTIC

Question 6

Delusions

Answer 6

False, fixed, personal beliefs that are not shared by other members of the peron’s culture or subculture

Question 7

Examples of delusions

Answer 7

persecution, grandeur, jealousy, reference, being controlled, somatic delusions, systematized delusions (of a single delusion)