Week 10 Psychiatry & Psychology

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Term used for the recipient of psychotherapy, as opposed to "patient":

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client

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invention of stories about one's past, often bizarre and complex, to fill in gaps left by amnesia; a typical feature of Korsakoff syndrome in chronic alcoholics:

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confabulation

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A mechanism by which one covers up a defect or weakness by exaggerating or overdeveloping some other property or faculty:

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compensation; overcompensation

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abnormal lability of mood, which varies between excitement & depression without becoming severe enough to be called bipolar disorder:

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cyclothymia

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a distorted belief or perception, such as thinking that one is a famous historical figure (Jesus, Napoleon) or that one is the object of persecution:

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delusion

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DSM
(abbreviation for?)

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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a general feeling of mental or emotional discomfort

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dysphoria

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description and classification of mental disorders based on objective categories, that is recognized as a diagnostic standard and widely used for reporting, coding, and statistical purposes--published by the American Psychiatric Association

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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a depressed mood, usually chronic or recurrent, that is not severe enough to be called major depression:

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dysthymia

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any organic disease or damage of the brain, particularly the cerebral cortex, that causes impairment of mental or physical functioning; often due to degenerative diseases (Alzheimer's or CreutzfeltJakob disease)

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encephalopathy

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any of a group of fatal, transmissible neurodegenerative diseases caused by abnormalities of prion protein metabolism, which may result from mutations in the prion protein gene or from infection with pathogenic isoforms of the protein (see prion). Characteristics include neuronal loss, gliosis, and extensive vacuolization of the cerebral cortex

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prion diseases
(Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a prion disease)

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an automatic, unconscious mental process whereby repressed emotions (painful feelings, sexual urges) generate new beliefs or attitudes to protect the ego from sense of guilt, inadequacy, or other negative feelings:

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mechanism, unconscious mechanism, defense mechanism, etc

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NAME THE AXIS:
Psychosocial and environmental problems. (Problems with marriage, family, neighbors, community, school, work, housing, finances, health care, police, or the courts:

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Axis IV