Definitions Flashcards
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Apathetic
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- Lack of interest or indifference
2. Lacking feeling
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Anxiety
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- Apprehension tension or uneasiness which stems from the anticipation of danger
- Source of which is largely unknown or unrecognized
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Association
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- Relationship between ideas or emotions
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Autistic Thinking
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- Attempts to gratify unfulfilled desires w/out due regard for reality
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Blocking
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- Difficulty in recollection
2. Interruption of a train of thought or speech
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Clang Association
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- Associations that are governed by rhyming sounds, rather than meaning
- EG: This is what I thought, bought, knot, caught, rot, sought
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Confabulation
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- The more or less unconsious, defensive, “filling in” of actual experiences often complex, that is recounted in a detailed and plausible way as though they were factual
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Depersonalization
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- Feelings of unreality or strangeness concerning either the environment or the self
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Depression
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- Psychiatrically, a morbid sadness, dejection or melancholy
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Dissociation
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- Selective amnesia
2. A separation or splitting off; an intra psychic defensive process which operates automatically and unconsciously
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Flight of Ideas
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- Verbal skipping from one idea to another before the last one has been concluded
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Hallucination
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- False sensory perception in the absence of an actual external stimulus
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Illusion
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- Misinterpretation of a real, external sensory experience
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Loss of Goal
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- Failure to follow a chain of thought through to a logical conclusion
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Neologism
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- A new word or condensed combination of several words coined by a patient to express a highly complex meaning r/t to his conflicts
- Not readily understood by others
- common in schizophrenia
