Descriptive Psychopathology Flashcards
what are the difference between primary and secondary delusions ?
primary delusions can no known trigger and appear out the blue
- suggestive of schizophrenia
secondary delusions are a result of a persons affect in an understandable manner
when is mood congruent seen?
affective psychosis
- depressed person who thinks inside is rotting
when is mood incongruent seen?
schizophrenia
- horrific beliefs discussed without commensurate distress
what is the syndrome when cocaine users think their skin is infested causing itching ?
Ekboms syndrome
what syndrome has a delusion that a sexual partner is cheating on them without any proof?
othello syndrome
what syndrome has the delusion that someone or multiple people close to them have been replaced with an exact double?
Fregoli syndrome
Capgras syndrome
whats syndrome has the delusion that the person has transmitted their beliefs to another who now believes the same beliefs?
folie a deux
what is ideas of reference associated with?
stress
psychosis
social phobia
what is the difference between elementary and complex auditory hallucinations?
elementary = whistling, hissing complex = voices, music
what is an illusion?
involuntary misperception of a real stimulus distorted or transformed often brought on by tiredness or emotion
what are the four subtopics in thought?
content
form
stream
possession
what is thought stream?
speed, quality, quantity of speech
how is something thought about `
what is thought form?
formation and coherence of speech
state some disorders of thought form?
derailment omission fusion substitution loosening of association circumstantiality tangential
