Psych - Introduction

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Affect

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A pattern of observable behaviors that are the expression of a subjectively experienced feeling state (emotion).

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Blunted affect

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Significant reduction in the intensity of emotional expression.

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Flat affect

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Absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression.

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Inappropriate affect

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Discordance between affective expression and the content of speech or ideation.

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Labile affect

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Abnormal variability in affect with repeated, rapid, and abrupt shifts in affective expression.

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Delusion

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A false, fixed, idiosyncratic belief. The idea is firmly sustained despite what almost everyone else believes and evidence to the contrary. The belief is not one ordinarily accepted by other members of the person's culture.

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Bizarre delusion

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A delusion that involves a phenomenon that a person's culture would regard as totally implausible (time travel, justin sober)

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Jealous delusion

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The delusion that one's sexual partner is unfaithful.

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Erotomanic delusion

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A delusion that another person, usually famous or of higher social status, is in love with the individual.

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Grandiose delusion

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A delusion of inflated worth, power, knowledge, identity, or special relationship to a deity or famous person.

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Passivity delusion

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A delusion in which feelings, impulses, thoughts, or actions are experienced as being under control of some external force rather than being under one's own control.

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Referential delusion

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A delusion whose theme is that events, objects, or other persons in one's immediate environment have a particular and unusual significance.

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Persecutory delusion

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A delusion in which the central theme is that one (or someone to whom one is close) is being attacked, harassed, cheated, persecuted, or conspired against.

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Somatic delusion

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A delusion whose main content pertains to appearance or body function.

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Systematized delusion

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A delusional world or interwoven fixed false ideas.

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Hallucination

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A sensory perception that has the compelling sense of a true perception but that occurs without external stimulation of the relevant sensory organ.

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Gustatory hallucination

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A hallucination involving the perception of taste (usually unpleasant).

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Olfactory hallucination

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A hallucination involving the perception of odor, such as a burning rubber or decaying fish.

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Tactile hallucination

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A hallucination involving the perception of being touched or of something being under one's skin. The most common tactile hallucinations are sensations of electric shocks and formication (sensation of something creeping crawling on or under the skin).

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Visual hallucination

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A hallucination involving sight, which may consist of formed images, such as of people, or of unformed images, such as flashes of light.

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Illusions

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Misperceptions of real external stimuli. Mistaking a tree for a man would be an example of an illusion.

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Axis I

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Clinical psychiatric disorders

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Axis II

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Personality disorders and mental retardation

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Axis III

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Non-psychiatric medical disorders

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Axis IV

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Acting stressors

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Axis V

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Global assessment of function

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Formulation

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A comprehensive analysis of a particular patient's illness. Includes developmental, social, trait, psychological, and behavioral factors.

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Diagnosis

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Narrowly focused identification of known clinical disorders.