T2 - Thoughts Schizo (Josh) Flashcards
— is an individual’s inability or refusal to speak.
Mutism
N: ‘I’m here to draw your blood’
C: ‘Where are your pencils and paper to draw with?’
Concrete Thinking
With —-, the client delays in reaching the point of a communication b/c of unnecessary detail.
Circumstantiality
“We wanted to take the bus, but the airport took all the traffic. Driving is the ticket when you want to get somewhere. No one needs a ticket to heaven. We have it all in our pockets.”
Associative Looseness
— thinking is characterized by speech in which ideas shift from one unrelated subject to another.
Associative Loosenss
‘Most forward action grows life double plays circle uniform’
Word Salad
The psychotic person invents new words.
Neologism
Group of words put together randomly, w/out any logical connection.
Word Salad
— differs from circumstantiality in that the person NEVER really gets to the point of the communication.
Tangentiality
With —, abstract thinking is very difficult and the client interprets everything literally.
Concrete Thinking
Choice of words is governed by sounds.
Clang Associations