Psych Terms

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anamnesis

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patient's medical or psychiatric history as recalled by the patient

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garrulous

Back 2

pointlessly or annoyingly talkative; wordy

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voluble

Back 3

characterized by ready or rapid speech

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taciturn

Back 4

temperamentally disinclined to talk; silent

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formication

Back 5

the feeling of bugs crawling on or under the skin

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hypnagogic hallucination

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hallucination occurring as patient falls asleep

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hypnopompic hallucination

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hallucination occurring as patient awakens

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derealization

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extreme feeling of detachment from the environment

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difference between signs and symptoms?

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signs are objective

symptoms are subjective

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what is a syndrome?

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a constellation of signs and symptoms that together make up a recognizable condition.

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abreaction

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a process by which repressed material - especially a painful experience or conflict - is brought back to consciousness, memory and relived; the appropriate affective response is generated

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abstract thinking

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thinking characterized by the ability to grasp the essentials of a whole, to break the whole into parts, and to discern common properties; to think symbolically

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abulia

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reduced impulse to act and think, associated with indifference to consequence of action; can occur due to neuro deficit, depression, schizophrenia

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acalculia

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loss of ability to do calculations, not caused by anxiety or impaired concentration; occurs with neuro deficit and learning disorder

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acataphasia

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disordered speech in which statements are incorrectly formulated; pts express themselves with words that sound like the ones intended, but are not appropriate to the thoughts

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acathexis or decathexis

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lack of feeling associated with an ordinarily emotionally charged subject; occurs in anxiety, dissociative, schizophrenic, and bipolar disorders

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acenesthesia

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loss of sensation of physical existence

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acrophobia

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dread of high places

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acting out

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behavioral response to an unconscious drive or impulse that brings about temporary partial relief to inner tension; common in borderline states

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aculalia

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nonsense speech associated with marked impairment of comprehension; occurs in mania, schizophrenia, and neuro deficit

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blocking

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interruption of the train of thought before an idea has been completed

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circumstantiality

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loss of capacity for goal-directed thinking; pt brings in many irrelevant details and parenthetical comments, but eventually gets back to the main point

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tangentiality

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disturbance in which pt loses thread of conversation, pursues divergent thoughts triggered by various internal or external stimuli that are irrelevant - never returning to original point

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word salad

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incoherent or incomprehensible connections of thoughts

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clang associations

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association by rhyming

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punning

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type of thought disorder - associations by double meaning

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neologisms

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new words created by patient combining or condensing other words

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ideas of reference

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a belief that television or radio is speaking to or about him or her

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ideas of influence

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beliefs about another person or force controlling some aspect of one's behavior