Disorders Of Thought Content

Question 1

Magical thinking

Answer 1

Wishful thinking, common in children

Question 2

Phobia

Answer 2

Persistent, pathological, unrealistic, intense fear of an object/ situation.

Question 3

Obsession

Answer 3

Persistent recurrent idea, thought, impulse that cannot be eliminated from consciousness by logic or reasoning

Question 4

Compulsion

Answer 4

Pathological need to act on an impulse that, if resisted , produces anxiety

Question 5

Abstract thinking

Answer 5

Thinking characterized by the ability to grasp the essentials of the whole, to break a whole into its part . Example is humour

Question 6

Concrete thinking

Answer 6

Actual thins, events and immediate experience rather than by abstraction

Question 7

Flight of ideas

Answer 7

Ideas flowing into one’s mind. One thought after another

Often seen in mania

Question 8

Circumstantiality

Answer 8

Patient tends to go into unnecessary details before communicating central idea but answers the question eventually.

Question 9

Tangentiality

Answer 9

Oblique, digressive/irrelevant manner of speech. Central idea not communicated.

Question 10

Loosening of association (loa)

Answer 10

-Schizophrenic thinking.

Unrelated ideas shift from one to another.

Question 11

Derailment

Answer 11

Gradual/ sudden deviation in train of thought without blocking

Question 12

Blocking

Answer 12

Abrupt interruption in train of thinking before a thought is finished

Question 13

Incoherence

Answer 13

Communication that is disconnected, disorganized or incomprehensible

Question 14

Word salad

Answer 14

Incoherent, essentially incomprehensible, mixture of words & phrases commonly

Question 15

Clang association

Answer 15

Punning and rhyming very common in schizophrenia & mania.