Core Concepts on the Care of the Psychotic Patient
Cards (30)
- Misconception of an actual external stimuli
- False sensory perception in the absence of external stimuli
- Pathological coining of new words
- Over inclusion of details
- Incoherent mixture of words and phrases
- Meaningless repetition of words and phrases
- Persistence of a response to a previous question
- Pathological repetition of words and phrases
- Shifting of one topic from one subject to another in a somewhat related way
- Shifting of a topic from one subject to another subject in a completely unrelated way
- The sound of the word gives direction to the flow of thought
- False belief which is inconsistent with one's knowledge and culture
- Disharmony between stimuli and the emotional reaction
- Severe reduction in emotional reaction
- Absence or near absence of emotional reaction
- Dulled emotional state
- Presence of two opposing feelings
- Feeling of strangeness towards ones self
- Feeling of strangeness towards the environment
- The pathological imitation of posture/action of others
- Maintaining the desired position of long periods of time without discomfort
- Filling in of memory gaps
- Inability to recall past events
- Lost of memory of the immediate past
- Loss of memory of the distant past