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Catatonic
Characterized bx seen in schizophrenia marked by psychomotor disturbance
Stupor/mutism, negativism, rigidity, purposeless excitement, inappropriate or bizarre posturing
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Anomie
Social instability resuling for a breakdown of standards and values
- Personal unrest, alienation, and uncertainty that comes for a lack of purpose
- -Significant risk for suicide
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Abreaction
- Emotional release resulting from menatlly reliving/bring into consciousness through the process of catsharsis
- -Seen in individual therapy
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Affect
Feeling/Affection
- The conscious subjective aspect of emotions considered apart from bodily changes (objective)
- -observed emotional state
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Akathesia
- Psychomotor agitation inablity to sit/restless
- -EPSd
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Akinesia
Absence, poverty, or loss of involuntary muscle movement
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Ambivalence
Simultaneous contradictory attitudes fo feelings towards an object
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Belief
- State of habit of mind in which trust or confident is place on some person/thing
- -ideas a person hold to be true
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Blocking
Sudden cessation of speech or a thought process without an immediate observation caused
Sometimes considered a consequence of repression
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Anhedonia
- Psychological condition characterized by the inability to experience pleasure in normally pleasurable acts
- -Schizophernia/Depression
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Character
Attributes or features that make up and distinguish an individual
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Circumstantiality
Characteristic unnessary speaking
Belonging to, consisting in , or dependent on type of speaking.
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Cognitive
- Relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectural
- -Concept of thought
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Grief
- Deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavment
- -Suffering
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Fixation
obsessive or unhealthy preoccupation or attachment
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Genuineness
- Actually having the reputed or apparent qualities
- -Honest
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La Belle Indifference
A naive, inappropriate lack of emotion or concern for the preceptions by others of one's disability
-Conversion disorder
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Grandiose
Characterized by affectation of grandeur/splender or by absurb exaggeration
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Mood
Pervailing attitude or dispositon
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Neurosis
- Mental/emotional disorder that affects only othe personality
- -less distorted perception of reality than in psychosis
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Nihilism
A view point that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless
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Resistance
Defense Mechanism wherein a pt rejects, denise, or otherwise opposes gthe therapeutic efforts
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Somatization
- Conversion of a mental state into a physcial symptom
- -absence of a known medical condition
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Tic
Local and habitual spasmodic motions of a particular muscles, especially of the face
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Tangenital thoughts
Distrubance in thought process in which one tends to disgress readily from one topic under discussion to other topic that arise through association
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Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
Medical Emergancy cause by antipsychotic
Cause hyperthermia, rigidity, and autonomic dysregulation
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Formication
Sensation of insects crawling on the skin
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Echopraxia
Involuntary repetition or imitaion of the observed movement of another
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Clanging
Pattern of speech in which words are selected because of the sound rather than meaning resulting in rhyming and punning
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Compulsion
Irresistable persistent impulse to perform an act
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Delusion
Persistent false psychotic beliefs regarding the self, person, or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence
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Dementia
Deteriorated cognitive functioning often with emotional apathy
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Disorientation
- Confused, to cause to lose bearings
- Displace from normal position/relationship
- To cause to lose the sense of time, place, or identity
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Dissociation
Separation of whole segments of athe personality or of discrete mental process for the mainstream of consciouness, or of bx
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Depersonalization
Loss of indentity and feeling of unreality and strangeness about one's own bx
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