Disturbances in thinking/thought

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It is the goal-directed flow of ideas. Symbols and Associations initiated by problem or task and leading toward a reality-oriented conclusion.

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Thinking

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Clinically significant behavior or psychological syndrome that is associated with distress or disability, and not just an expected response to a particular event

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Mental disorder

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Inability to distinguish reality from fantasy. Impairment in reality testing with creation of a new reality

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Psychosis

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The objective evaluation and judgement of the world outside the self

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Reality Testing

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Disturbance in the form of thought instead in the content of thought. Thinking is characterized by loosened associations, neologisms, and illogical constructs. Thought process is disordered and the person defined as psychotic

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Formal Thought Disorder

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Thinking containing erroneous conclusions or internal contradictions. It is considered psychopathological only when it is marked and when not caused by cultural values or intellectual deficit

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Illogical Thinking

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Thinkingthat gratifies unfulfilled desires but has no regard for reality; a preoccupation phase in children in which thoughts, word, or actions assume powers

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Autisic Thinking

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A form of dereistic thought; thinking similar to the preoperational phase in children (Piaget) in which thoughts, words, or actions assume power (to cause or to prevent events)

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Magical Thinking

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General term for thinking that is dereistic, illogical and magical; normally found in dreams, abnormally found in psychotics

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Primary Process Thinking