Psychotic Disorder/Suspicious Behavior - Unit 2 (1) Flashcards
Alogia
Inability to speak
Ambivalence
Contradictory, mixed feelings
Anhedonia
The inability to experience or even imagine any pleasant emotion
Apathy
Indifference or disinterest in the environment. Bland or flat affect. Negative symptom
Autistic Thinking
Self-absorbed thinking, includes auditory hallucinations
Blocking
Sudden loss of thought content indicated by the stopping of spontaneous flow conversation or thinking for no apparent reason, usually due to preoccupation or auditory hallucinations
Correct response as a nurse:
“You stopped talking. What are you thinking?”
Catatonia
A type of psychological disturbance that is typified by stupor or excitement. Stupor is characterized by extreme psychomotor retardation, mutism, negativism, and posturing
Circumstantiality
Excessive details and circumstances provided during the conversation but eventually reaching the point.
Ex.
What did you have for lunch?
LUNCH! I didn’t have any money for lunch so I had to go out to the corner to make some money. So I went to the corner and this disgusting homeless man came up to me. He was DISGUSTING! Huge beard and everything. And he smelled awful. I hate beards. He gave me $3.50 for lunch after I gave him head in the trash can he sleeps in. They had this deal going on at this place near by so I went there for lunch. $3.50 was just enough. I had two slices of pizza; it tasted alright but it was kind of cold.
Concrete Thinking
Thought processes that are focused on specifies rather than on generalities and immediate issues rather than eventual outcomes. Individuals who are experiencing conrete thinking are unable to comprehend abstract terminology
Echolalia
The parrot-like repetition, by an individual with loose ego boundaries, of the words spoken by another.
Echopraxia
An individual with loose ego boundaries attempting to identify with another person by imitating movements that the other person makes.
Ego Boundaries
Ego’s ability to seperate the self from others and the environment. Ego’s ability to maintain realistic self-identity and strong sense of self, personality. Ego’s sense of psychological and physical being.
Inappropriate Affect
The outward emotional expression is incompatiable with the situation
Laughing after hearing of a death
Loose associations
Also called associative looseness or dissociated speech/thinking
Unrelated complete thoughts expressed in rapid succession
Ex: “I have to choose, my mother is dead, activities begin now”
Neologism
New word, made up word
