Psych Terminology

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Fixed beliefs that are not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence.

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Delusions

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Delusions that one is going to be harmed, harassed, and so forth by an individual, organization, or other group.

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Persecutory delusions

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Delusions that certain gestures, comments, environmental cues, and so forth are directed at oneself.

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Referential delusions

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Delusional belief that one has exceptional abilities, wealth or fame.

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Grandiose delusions

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Delusional belief that another person is in love with him or her.

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Erotomanic delusion

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Delusional belief that a major catastrophe will occur.

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Nihilistic delusion

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Delusions focused on health and organ function.

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Somatic delusion

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Delusions that are clearly implausible and not understandable to same-culture peers and do not derive from ordinary life experiences.

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Bizarre delusions

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Belief that one’s thoughts have been “removed” by some outside force.

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Thought withdrawal

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Belief that alien thoughts have been put into one’s mind.

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Thought insertion

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Belief that one’s body or actions are being acted on or manipulated by some outside force.

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Delusions of control

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Perception-like experiences that occur without an external stimulus. They are vivid and clear, with the full force and impact of normal perceptions, and not under voluntary control.

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Hallucinations

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Formal thought disorder: switching from one topic to another.

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Derailment or loose associations

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Formal thought disorder: answers to questions may be obliquely related or completely unrelated.

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Tangentiality

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Speech that is so severely disorganized that it is nearly incomprehensible and resembles receptive aphasia.

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Incoherence or “word salad”

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Grossly disorganized behavior involving a marked decrease in reactivity to the environment.

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Catatonic behavior

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Catatonic behavior marked by resistance to instructions.

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Negativism

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Catatonic behavior marked by complete lack of verbal response.

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Mutism

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Catatonic behavior associated with purposeless and excessive motor activity without obvious cause.

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Catatonic excitement

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The “five As” of schizophrenia negative symptoms.

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Apathy, avolition, alogia, anhedonia, asociality

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Thought process symptom: nearly continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt shifts from one topic to another.

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Flight of ideas

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Speech that is difficult to interrupt.

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Pressured speech

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An inability to censor immaterial external stimuli that may prevent a patient experiencing mania from holding a rational conversation.

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Distractibility

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Excessive planning and participation in multiple activities, including sexual, occupational, political, or religious activities.

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Increase in goal-directed activity