Glossary Of Terms To Signs And Symptoms In Psychiatry Flashcards
A process by which repressed material, particularly a painful experience or a conflict is brought back to consciousness in this process the person not only recalls, but also relieves the repressed material which is accompanied by the appropriate affective response
Abreaction
Acenesthesia
Actaphasia
Abulia
Abreaction
Reduced impulse to act in the sink associated with indifferent about consequences of action, occurs as a result of neurological deficit, depression, and schizophrenia
Acalculia
Aculalia
Aerophagia
Abulia
Abulia
Thinking, characterized by the ability to grasp the essentials of a hole to break a hole into its parts, and to discern common properties. The think symbolically.
Acalculia
Abstract thinking
Acathexis
Acting out
Abstract thinking
Dread of high places
Acrophobia
Aerophagia
Ailuphobia
Acrophobia
Behavioral response to an unconscious, drive or impose that brings about temporary partial relief of inner tension. Relief is attained by reacting to present situation, as if it were the situation that originally gave rise to the driver impulse common in borderline states.
Acting out
Akathisia
Akinetic mutism
Acting out
Loss of sensation of physical assistance
Acenesthesia
Actaphasia
Acathexis
Acenesthesia
Nonsense speech associated with marked impairment of comprehension occurs in mania, schizophrenia, and neurological deficit
Aculalia
Acalculia
Adiadochokinesia
Aculalia
Weakness and fatigability, characteristic of neurasthenia and depression.
Aerophagia
Alexia
Agnosia
Adynamia
Adynamia
Loss or impairment of a previously possessed ability to write
Agrammatism
Agraphia
Ailurophobia
Agraphia
Dread of cats
Agrammatism
Agraphia
Ailurophobia
Ailurophobia
Inability to perform rapid alternating movement, occurs with neurological deficit and cerebral lesions
Alexia
Agnosia
Adiadochokinesia
Acataphasia
Adiadochokinesia
Disordered speech in which statements are incorrectly, formulated patients make express themselves with words that sound like the ones intended, but are not appropriate to the thoughts are they may use totally inappropriate expressions
Alexia
Agnosia
Adiadochokinesia
Acataphasia
Acataphasia
Subjective feeling of Mordor is it restlessness, manifested by a compelling need to be in constant movement may be seen as an extra pyramidical adverse effect of antipsychotic medication may be mistaken, or psychotic agitation
Akataphasia
Acataphasia
Akathisia
Akathisia
A form of disordered speech, in which thoughts cannot be expressed directly, but are expressed indirectly, such as by making a similar sound, or by being derailed into another thought
Akataphasia
Acataphasia
Akathisia
Akataphasia
Dread of pain
Algophobia
Alo Gia
Ambivalence
Analgesia
Algophobia
Inability to speak, because of a mental deficiency, or an episode of dementia
Algophobia
Alogia
Ambivalence
Analgesia
Alogia
Lack of energy
Amnestic aphasia
Analgesia
Anancasm
Anergia
Anergia
State in which one feels little or nothing can occur under hypnosis and in dissociative disorder
Amnestic aphasia
Analgesia
Anancasm
Anergia
Analgesia
Disturb capacity to name objects, even though they are known to the patient also cold anomic aphasia anaclitic. Depending on others, especially as the infront on the mother, analytic, depression, and children results from an absence of mothering.
Amnestic aphasia
Analgesia
Anancasm
Anergia
Amnestic aphasia
Repetitious or stereotyped behavior, or thought, usually used as a attention relieving device, used as a synonym for obsession and seen in obsessive compulsive (anankastic) personality
Anomia
Anhedonia
Ansogonia
Anancasm
Anancasm
Inability, to recall the names of objects
Anomia
Anhedonia
Ansogonia
Anancasm
Anomia
Lots of interest in and withdrawal from all regular and pleasurable activities, often associated with depression
Anomia
Anhedonia
Ansogonia
Anancasm
Anhedonia
Los or decreasing appetite
Ambivalence
Amimia
Alexythymia
Anorexia
Anorexia
Inability or difficulty in describing are being aware of once emotion or moods, elaboration of fantasies, associated with depression, substance abuse, and post traumatic stress disorder
Ambivalance
Amimia
Alexythymia
Anorexia
Alexithymia
Lack of ability to make gestures, or to comprehend those made by others
Ambivalance
Amimia
Alexythymia
Anorexia
Amimia
Call existence of the opposing impulses to wear the same thing in the same person at the same time scene in schizophrenia borderline stays in obsessive, compulsive disorders, or OCD
Ambivalance
Amimia
Alexythymia
Anorexia
ambivalence
Excessive swallowing of air seating inside the disorder
Aerophagia
Affect
Acalculia
Acathexis
Aerophagia
The subject of an immediate experience of emotion, attached ideas or mental representations of object affect has outward manifestations that may be classified as restricted, blonded flattened broad, labile, appropriate or inappropriate
Aerophagia
Affect
Acalculia
Acathexis
Affect
Absence of voluntary motor movement, or speech in a patient who is apparently alert, scene in psychotic depression, and catatonic states.
Alexia
Akinetic Mutism
Acalculia
Acathexis
Akinetic Mutism
Loss of ability to do calculations not cost bedside to impairment in concentration, occurs with neurological deficit in learning disorder.
Alexia
Akinetic Mutism
Acalculia
Acathexis
Acalculia
Lack of feeling associated with an ordinarily emotionally charge subject Insik analysis, it denotes the patient’s detaching or transferring of emotion from thoughts and ideas. Also called the decathexis. Occurs in anxiety, disassociative, schizophrenic, and bipolar disorder.
Alexia
Akinetic Mutism
Acalculia
Acathexis
Acathexis
Lack or impairment of the sense of taste. Seen in depression, and neurological deficit
Androgyny
Anosognosia
Ageusia
Aggression
Ageusia
Forceful goal directed action that may be verbal or physical the motor counterpart of the effect of rage, anger or hostility seen in neurological deficit, temporal lobe disorder, impulse control, disorder, mania, and schizophrenia
Androgyny
Anosognosia
Ageusia
Aggression
Aggression
Severe anxiety associated with motor restlessness
Androgyny
Anosognosia
Akinesia
Agitation
Agitation
Inability to recognize a physical deficit in one’s self
Androgyny
Anosognosia
Akinesia
Agitation
Anosognosia
Combination of culturally, determined, female, and male characteristic in one person
Androgyny
Anosognosia
Akinesia
Agitation
Androgyny
Loss of a previously processed reading facility, not explained by defective, visual acuity. compare with dyslexia
Alexia
Agnosia
Akinesia
Agitation
Alexia
Lack of physical movement, as in the extreme immobility of catatonic schizophrenia, may also occur as an extra pyramidical effect of antipsychotic medication
Alexia
Agnosia
Akinesia
Agitation
Akinesia
Inability to understand, the import or significance of sensory stimuli, cannot be explained by a defect in sensory pathways are cerebral lesion; the term has also been used to refer to the selective loss or disuse of knowledge of specific objects because of emotional circumstances as seen in certain schizophrenic, anxious and depressed patience. Occurs with neurological deficit.
Agrammatism
Agnosia
Agoraphobia
Anterograde amnesia
Agnosia
Loss of memory for events, subsequent to the onset of the amnesia common after trauma.
Agrammatism
Agnosia
Agoraphobia
Anterograde amnesia
Anterograde amnesia
Morbid fear of open places or leaving the familiar setting of the home may be present with or without panicked attacks
Agrammatism
Agnosia
Agoraphobia
Anterograde amnesia
Agoraphobia
Speech in which the patient forms words in the sentence, without regard for grammatical rules, seen in Alzheimer’s and picks disease
Agrammatism
Agnosia
Agoraphobia
Anterograde amnesia
Agrammatism
Dulled emotional tone associated with detachment I put or indifference; observed in certain types of schizophrenia and depression
Apathy
Aphasia
Aphonia
Apraxia
Apathy 
Inability to perform a voluntary purposeful motor activity cannot be explained by paralysis or other motor or sensory impairment.
Apathy
Aphasia
Aphonia
Apraxia
Apraxia
Feeling of apprehension caused by anticipation of danger, which may be internal or external
Anxiety
Aphasia
Aphonia
Astereognosis
Anxiety
Any disturbance in the comprehension or expression of language, caused by a brain lesion
Anxiety
Aphasia
Aphonia
Astereognosis
Aphasia
Inability to identify familiar objects by touch seen with neurological deficit
Anxiety
Aphasia
Aphonia
Astereognosis
Astereognosis
