Core Concepts on the Care of the Psychotic Patient

Cards (30)

  • Disturbances in Perception
    1. Illusion
    2. Hallucination
  • Misconception of an actual external stimuli
    Illusion
  • False sensory perception in the absence of external stimuli
    Hallucination
  • Disturbances in Thinking
    1. Neologism
    2. Circumstantiality
    3. Word Salad
    4. Verbigeration
    5. Perseveration
    6. Echolalia
    7. Flight of ideas
    8. Looseness of association
    9. Clang association
    10. Delusion
  • Pathological coining of new words
    Neologism
  • Over inclusion of details
    Circumstantiality
  • Incoherent mixture of words and phrases
    Word Salad
  • Meaningless repetition of words and phrases
    Verbigeration
  • Persistence of a response to a previous question
    Perseveration
  • Pathological repetition of words and phrases
    Echolalia
  • Shifting of one topic from one subject to another in a somewhat related way
    Flight of ideas
  • Shifting of a topic from one subject to another subject in a completely unrelated way
    Looseness of association
  • The sound of the word gives direction to the flow of thought
    Clang association
  • False belief which is inconsistent with one's knowledge and culture
    Delusion
  • Disturbances of Affect
    1. Inappropriate affect
    2. Flat affect
    3. Apathy
    4. Ambivalence
    5. Depersonalization
    6. Derealization
  • Disharmony between stimuli and the emotional reaction
    Inappropriate affect
  • Severe reduction in emotional reaction
    Blunted affect
  • Absence or near absence of emotional reaction
    Flat affect
  • Dulled emotional state
    Apathy
  • Presence of two opposing feelings
    Ambivalence
  • Feeling of strangeness towards ones self
    Depersonalization
  • Feeling of strangeness towards the environment
    Derealization
  • Disturbances in Motor Activity
    1. Echopraxia
    2. Waxy flexibility
  • The pathological imitation of posture/action of others
    Echopraxia
  • Maintaining the desired position of long periods of time without discomfort
    Waxy flexibility
  • Disturbances in Memory
    1. Confabulation
    2. Amnesia
    3. Anterograde amnesia
    4. Retrograde amnesia
    5. Deja vu
    6. Jamias vu
  • Filling in of memory gaps
    Confabulation
  • Inability to recall past events
    Amnesia
  • Lost of memory of the immediate past
    Anterograde amnesia
  • Loss of memory of the distant past
    Retrograde amnesia