Pyschia Terms Flashcards
Projection
Blaming to others
Displacement
Emotion shifted to others
Ex. Kick the cat
Somatization
Psych problem to physical problem (GIT)
Conversion
Psych problem to physical problem (Nervous System)
Repression
Involuntary to forget
Suppression
Voluntary to forget
Introjection
Taking values and beliefs
Blaming self
Identification
Taking characteristics and trait
Regression
Return to an earlier stage of development (balik pagkabata)
Splitting
All good and all bad
Acting out
Emotional outburst (tantrums)
Isolation of affect
Reality accepted without emotional response
Ex. namatayan pero no reaction
Intellectualization
Use of intellectual process, theories to avoid expression affect
Rationalization
Alibi, excuses
Reaction formation
Opposite of what you feel
Ex. Plastic
Undoing
Acting out reverse of the unacceptable
Doing something to relieve guilt
Passive - Aggressive
Hostility, complaining
Dissociation
Detaching from one consciousness
Disconnection of feelings from traumatic event
Sublimation
Unacceptable impulse to acceptable channel
Bad to good
Cachexia
Severe muscle wasting
Transference
Patient to health care workers
Countertransference
Health care workers to patient (sympathy)
Agoraphobia
Fear in the open space
Claustrophobia
Fear in closed space
Xenophobia
Fear in stranger
Nyetophobia
Fear in the dark
Illusion
Positive stimuli but incorrectly perceived and misinterpreted
Delusion
False belief
Grandiosity
unrealistic sense of superiority in which someone believes themself to be unique and better than others
Ex. Ako si superman
Fugue
Assumption nee personality or a different environment
Depersonalization
Out of body experience
Ex. you may feel like you’re floating in the air above yourself
Verbigeration
Repeating of your own speech
Echolalia
Repeating the speech of others
Circumstantiality
Beating around the bush (+) response
Tangentiality
tendency to speak about topics unrelated to the main topic of discussion.
Ex. How was your week?” a person may respond with, “When I was five, my cat was killed.”
Amergia
Absence of energy
Avolition
Absence of motivation
Mutism
Absence of speech
Flat affect/Apathy
No reaction
Anhedonia
Absence of joy
Catatonia
abnormal movements, behaviors, and withdrawal
Oculogyric
Extra ocular muscle
Torticollis
Wry neck
Opisthotanus
Arching of back
Distocia
excessive, involuntary muscle contractions
Pseudoparkinson
Mimics parkinson’s disease
Akathisia
A state ofagitation, distress, andrestlessness
Tardive dyskinesia
involuntary movements of the face and jaw.
Loose of association
thoughts that are presented without the logical connections usually necessary for the listening to interpret the message.
Flight of ideas
someone talks quickly and erratically, jumping rapidly between ideas and thoughts
Echopraxia
Involuntary imitation of movement (schizophrenia)
Alogia
Absence of logic
Ataxia
lose muscle control in their arms and legs. This may lead to a lack of balance, coordination, and trouble walking.
Aphasia
Trouble speaking
Delusional Reference
Thinking that everyone is talking about her
Somatic Delusion
Delusion that the person has some physical defect or general medical condition
Nihilistic Delusions
Delusion that the world is ending
Religious delusion
Having religious power
Ambivalence
Having mixed feelings or contradictory
Ex. I love you but i hate you
Agnosia
unable to recognize and identify objects, persons, or sounds
Astereognosis
inability to discriminate shape and size by touch and the inability to recognize objects by touch
Agraphesthesia
difficulty recognizing a written number or letter traced on the skin
Clang Association
Rhyming words
