Week three Flashcards
What is neurosis?
When mental health patients know they are unwell
What is psychosis?
- When mental health patients are not aware they are unwell
- Problems with interpretation and perception
What is bio-determinism?
- That mental illness is genetically predisposed and a disease of the brain
- Eugenics → “well born” “good, well” a set of belief and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of a group of individuals
What is psychological determinism?
- Disagreement about what psychological causes mean
What is social determinism?
Suggest that people may have a susceptibility to a disorder but that social factors precipitate and maintain it. Susceptibility can be derived from bio/psycho/social factors of the past
What is biopsychosocial determinism?
Does not challenge the basic validity of psychiatric diagnosis but argues that the patient’s particular biographical picture should be privileged. Multi-factorial aetiology and patient- centeredness. Integrated view of biology-psychology- social factors of a human experience
What are functional mental illnesses?
Defined as oddities of conduct and spoken thoughts (symptoms)
What are organic mental illnesses?
Defined as observable or measurable bodily abnormalities (signs) in addition to symptoms
What are examples of organic disorders?
- Brain injury
- Neurological condition
- Infection
- Delirium
- Dementia
- Substance induced
What are somatoform disorders?
- Amnesia
- Conversion
- Hypochondriasis
- Hysteria
- Malingering
- Somatisation
What are symptoms of psychosis?
A person experiencing psychosis is out of touch with reality One or more of five types of symptoms: - Delusions - Hallucinations - Disorganised speech - Disorganised behaviour - Negative symptoms
What is perception?
Awareness of events and sensations and the ability to make distinctions between them
What are illusions?
Misperceives or exaggerate stimuli that actually exist in the external environment
What are hallucinations?
Perceptions in the absence of environmental stimuli (5 senses)
What are delusions?
Fixed, false beliefs that usually involves a misinterpretation of perception or experience. Cannot persuade the person that the belief is incorrect, despite evidence to the contrary
What is loose association?
Absence of the normal connection of thoughts, ideas, and topics - sudden shifts without apparent relationship to preceding topics
What is pressure of speech?
An increase in the amount of spontaneous speech compared to what is considered customary
What is clanging?
Sounds rather than meaningful relationships appear to govern words. e.g. “I will take a pill if I go up the hill but not if my name is Jill, I don’t want to kill.”
What are neologisms?
New word invented by the client
What is pressure of thought?
When ideas arise in unusual variety and abundance and pass through the mind rapidly
What is poverty of thought?
When the client has only a few thoughts, which lack variety and richness, and seem to move through the mind slowly
What is pressure vs poverty?
- Pressure occurs in mania
- Poverty occurs in depressive orders
What is thought blocking?
Client stops abruptly in middle of a sentence or train of thought, sometimes unable to continue the idea
What is thought insertion?
Delusional belief that others are putting ideas or thoughts in the client head
