Blueprints Psychiatry: Additional Questions (PDF Distributed by Dr. Butterfield)

Question 1

What are Erik Erikson’s final two conflicts of character development?

Answer 1

• Generativity vs. stagnation (middle age)

* Integrity vs. despair

Question 2

What is the difference between tangentiality and flight of ideas?

Answer 2

Tangentiality is characterized by a logical flow of ideas that does not address the original point. Flight of ideas is characterized by an absence of logical flow.

Question 3

Lewy body dementia can present with hallucinations. People with this typically have enhanced sensitivity to __________________.

Answer 3

the extrapyramidal side effects of antipsychotics

Question 4

______________ reduces the adverse effects of ECT but also makes it less effective.

Answer 4

Using only one electrode instead of two