Phenomenology Flashcards
Delusion when patient believes someone or something is trying to harm them
Persecutory delusion
Delusion when patient believes they have great self-importance
Grandiose delusion
Delusion when patient believes certain events or things have a special significance
Self-referential delusion
Delusion when patient believes thinks things do not exist or are negated
Nihilistic delusion
Delusion when patient believes someone has been replaced
Misidentification delusion
Autoscopic hallucination
Patient sees themselves
Psuedohallucination
Perceptual experience which occurs in the subjective inner space of the patient’s mid and not through one of the sensory organs.
Delusion when patient believes their thoughts are being interfered with
Thought alienation
Delusion when patient believes their thoughts are available to others
Thought broadcasting
Delusion when patient believes their thoughts are being removed by someone/something
Thought withdrawal
Delusion when patient believes someone or something is putting thoughts and ideas in their head
Thought insertion
Circumstantiality thinking
Directed at a goal but with less relevant associations.
Flight of ideas
Rapid skipping from one thought to another which is only distantly related to the previous. Goal is not reached.
Pressure of speech
Rapid delivery of words with patient wandering off point a lot.
Perseveration
When an initially appropriate response is repeated beyond the point of relevance and appropriateness.
