Schizophrenia & Psychotic Disorders (Morrison Ch. 2) Flashcards
Morrison describes “psychotic” as:
“out of touch with reality”
What is the term for a mental disorder if it resulted in ‘impairment that grossly interferes with the capacity to meet ordinary demands of life’ … or a ‘gross impairment in reality testing”?
Psychotic
What are the specific symptoms the DSM-5 uses for the term “psychotic”?
Delusions
Catatonic/Disorganized Behavior
Negative Symptoms
Disorganized Speech
Hallucinations
What are the decreasing abilities or loss of normal functions (affect, speech, avolition)?
Negative symptoms
What is an excess or distortion of normal functions (e.g. delusions, hallucinations, etc.)?
Positive symptoms
What refers to the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy?
Reality testing
What are false beliefs about reality?
Delusions
(These are maintained despite enormous, obvious, incontrovertible proof to the contrary, and they are not widely believed in the person’s culture or subculture)
What kind of delusions are involved and exaggerated sense of one’s importance, power, ability or identify?
Grandiose delusions
What kind of delusions involve suspicions about a rival or about one’s partner being unfaithful?
Jealousy delusions
What kind of delusions involve themes of nonexistence, either of the patient, others or the world. “ My insides are gone”?
Nihilistic delusions
What kind of delusions happen when a person is convinced others are trying to harm, cheat, attack, or conspire against him or her?
Persecutory delusions
What kind of delusions is pertaining to the patient’s body, not consistent with cultural beliefs or with physiology or medicine?
Somatic delusions
What kind of delusions are beliefs that external events or people are sending messages or commands of great personal importance to the patient? (Songs, newscasters, and articles are directed toward me)
Ideas of reference
What kind of delusion contains:
- Thought withdrawal
- Thought insertion
- Delusions of control (one’s body or actions are being acted on or manipulated by some outside force)
Bizarre delusions
What are the perceptual experiences without external stimuli?
Hallucinations
What are six kinds of hallucinations?
- Auditory
- Visual
- Olfactory – smell
- Gustatory – taste (Bad)
- Somatic – physical sensation within body
- Tactile – being touched or something under skin
In order for a hallucination to count as psychotic, the experiences must occur while…
fully awake
What psychotic disorder contains these key features:
- Loose associations
- Illogical Thinking
- Perseveration
- Clanging
- Neologisms
- Echolalia
- Blocking
- Loss of abstract thinking
Disorganized Thinking (speech)
In Disorganized Thinking (speech), what is it called when someone leaps from subject to subject without the connections being clear? For example, “School is nice. I adore earlobes.”
Loose Associations
In Disorganized Thinking (speech), what is it called when someone states conclusions that contain clear, internal contradictions or are blatantly erroneous? For example, a patient refuses to go to the movies because the tickets are green.
Illogical Thinking
In Disorganized Thinking (speech), what is it called when someone uses persistent repetition of speech or movement?
Perseveration
In Disorganized Thinking (speech), what is it called when someone uses the sound of a word, instead of its meaning, dictates the course of subsequent associations? “Ding, dong, dell. .”
Clanging
In Disorganized Thinking (speech), what is it called when someone uses distortions of words or new words that a patient invents?
Neologisms
In Disorganized Thinking (speech), what is it called when someone uses meaningless, persistent, verbal repetition of words or sounds heard, often with a mocking, mumbling, staccato or parrot-like tone.
Echolalia
In Disorganized Thinking (speech), what is it called when a person’s train of thought abruptly and unexpectedly stops?
Blocking