Psychopathology

Question 1

Psychopathology

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Systemic study of abnormal experiences, cognition and behaviour

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Phenomenology

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Observation and categorisation of abnormal psychic events, the internal experience of the patient and consequent behaviour

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Form

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Structure or type of phenomenon

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Content

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What the patient is more concerned about.

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Delusion

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A fixed, (usually) false, unshakeable belief which is out of keeping with patients educational, cultural, and social background

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Persecutory delusion

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A delusional belief that one’s life is being interfered with in a harmful way

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Delusion of reference

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External events or situations have been arranged so that a message is conveyed to the individual, or there is some other special significance

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Grandiose delusions

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Patients has special powers

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Delusional perception

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A real percept leads immediately to a delusional belief- the traffic light tuned red and I knew I was the king of England

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De Clerambault’s syndrome

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Patients believes another individual is in love with them

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Cotard syndrome

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Psychotic depressive presentation with nihilistic delusions

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Capgras syndrome

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A person well-known to the patient is replaced by an indention ‘double’ who is not the ‘real person’

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Fregoli syndrome

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Single person is impersonating multiple familiar people

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Othello syndrome

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Sexual partner is unfaithful

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Ekbom’s syndrome

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Skin is infested with parasites causing itching

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Auditory hallucinations

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More common in schizophrenia. The simpler the hallucinations, the more likely the cause is organic.

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Visual hallucinations

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More seen in organic conditions

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Depersonalisation

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an unpleasant subjective report that the patient feels they are ‘unreal’

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Derealisation

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an unpleasant subjective report that the patient feels the world has become
‘unreal’.

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Overvalued ideas

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ideas that are understandable and reasonable in themselves come to dominate the patient’s life

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MSE

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Appearance
Behaviour
Speech
Mood
Perception
Thought
Risk and suicidal ideation
Cognition
Insight

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Subjective quickening of thoughts so most are not carried to completion before being overtaken

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Flight of ideas

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Slowing of thinking

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Retardation of thinking

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Quickening of thinking

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Pressure of speech

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Derailment

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a break in the linked association of sequential thoughts or change in track of thoughts

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omission

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all or part of thought is absent without a reason

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fusion

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thoughts are fused together

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substitiution

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an inappropriate or illogical thought replaces another as though slotted into space

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normal thought structure breakdown resulting in confused and illogical answer which no exploration can explain. the more questions, the more confusing it becomes

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loosening of association

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circumstantiality

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laborious details given no matter how insignificant it is without losing track of the question

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tangential thinking

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talking past or around the point: Knight's move thinking

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talking past the point

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getting close to the discussion point, but then skirting around it and never actually reaching it

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verbigeration (word said)

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speech is reduced to senseless repetition of sounds and phrases