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Psychiatry Flashcards

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Psychiatrist

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MD

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Forensic psychiatrist

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Deals w/ legal part of psychiatry

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Psychologist

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PhD

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Clinical psychologist

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Masters

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School psychologist

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Trained to test kids

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Id

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Unconscious

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Ego

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Central coordinating branch of personality

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Superego

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Internalized

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Dementia

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Gradual loss of intellectual abilities judgment, memory, abstract thinking, personality

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Psychiatry

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Branch of med. that deals w/ the diagnosis, treatment, prevention of mental illness

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Cyclothymic disorder

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Mild bipolar w/ 2 yrs of hypomania/numerous depressive episodes

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Dysthymic disorder

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Depressive disorder persists over 2 yr period not as severe as major depression

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Borderline

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Severely distorted self-image/ feel worthless/ fundamentally flawed

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Histrionic

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Long standing attention seeking behavior

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Narcissistic

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Rare, low self-esteem dev. superficial perfection and behavior needing constant admiration

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Asperger syndrome

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Mild end of autism

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Voyeurism

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Sexual pleasure from etching people having sex

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Exhibitionism

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Sexual pleasure from exposing self to strangers

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Sexual sadism

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Sexual pleasure from causing pain

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Conversion disorder

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Repressed conflicts expressed as physical symptoms

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Affect

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External expression of emotion

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Amnesia

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Loss of memory

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Anxiety disorders

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Unpleasant tension, distress, avoidance behavior

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Apathy

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Absence of emotion

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Dissociative disorder

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Disturbance in memory, identity, or consciousness

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Fugue

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Flight from customary surroundings

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Hallucination

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false sensory perception

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Labile

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Unstable; undergoing rapid emotional change

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Mania

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extreme excitement, hyperactive elation, agitation

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Mutism

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Nonreactive state w/ inability to speak

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Paraphilia

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Sexual urge/ fantasy of unusual objects, activities or situations

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Pervasive dev. disorders

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Childhood disorders delays in socialization/ com. skills

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