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abreaction ------ painful repressed material brought back abulia ------ indifference about consequence of action acataphasia ------ disordered speech acathexis ------ lack of feeling/detaching acenesthesia ------ loss of sensation of physical existence acrophobia ------ fear of high places aculalia ------ nonsense speech adiadochokinesia ------ inability to perform rapidly alternating movements adynamia ------ weakness and fatigability ageusia ------ lack sense of taste agnosia ------ can't understand importance of stimuli ailurophobia ------ dread of cats akathisia ------ need to be in constant movement alexia ------ can't read anymore alexithymia ------ can't describe one's emotions or mood algophobia ------ dread of pain alogia ------ can't speak due to mental deficiency amnesiac aphasia ------ can't name previously known objects anaclitic ------ depending on others anancasm ------ repetitive/stereotyped behavior anosognosia ------ can't see own physical defect aphonia ------ loss of voice astasia abasia ------ can't stand or walk normally aura ------ warning sensations blocking ------ can't finish thought or idea bradylalia ------ slow speech bruxism ------ grinding/gnashing teeth carebaria ------ pressure feeling in head catalepsy ------ maintain body position where placed cataplexy ------ sudden loss of muscle tone catatonic stupor ------ stupor but well aware of surroundings cathexis ------ use psychic energy in idea or concept causalgia ------ burning pain cenesthesia ------ change in feeling tone in part of body circumstantiality ------ digress into unnecessary details cluttering ------ disturbance of fluency/rapid rate complex ------ feeling-toned idea conation ------ mental life concerned with craving, striving- expressed in behavior condensation ------ symbol stands for a number of components confabulation ------ filling of gaps no basis in fact constricted affect ------ reduced intensity of feeling tone conversion phenomena ------ symbolic physical symptoms involve voluntary muscles coprolalia ------ involuntary use of cuss words coprophagia ------ eat feces cryptographia ------ private written language cycloplegia ------ paralyzed eye muscles for accomodation deja entendu ------ I've heard that before deja pense ------ I've had that thought before delirium tremens ------ acute rxn withdrawal from alcohol delusion of reference ------ people are talking about me depersonalization ------ self feels unreal, happens in stress derealization ------ my surroundings have changed/aren;'t real dereism ------ doesn't face the facts devaluation ------ I or others have bad qualities dipsomania ------ compulsion to drink alcohol dreamy state ------ altered state, usually temporal lobe lesion dysarthria ------ can't articulate dysgeusia ------ impaired taste dyslalia ------ can't articulate b/c of structural prob. dysmetria ------ can't gauge distance relative to movement dyspareunia ------ pain during sexual intercourse dysphasia ------ can't comprehend oral language dysphonia ------ pain while speaking dysprosody ------ no speech melody dystonia ------ sustained postural deviations echolalia ------ repeating words ego-alien ------ pointing out bad in personality inconsistent with rest of personality ego-syntonic ------ pointing out traits that are consistent w/personality eidetic image ------ vivid mental image of objects seen encopresis ------ involuntary pooing enuresis ------ urine during sleep erotomania ------ someone is in love with me erythrophobia ------ afraid to blush euthymia ------ normal mood expansive mood ------ express feelings w/out restraint expressive aphasia ------ can understand, but cannot speak- halted externalization ------ projection fausse reconnaissance ------ false recognition floccillation ------ aimless plucking or picking folie a deux ------ mental illness shared by two persons formal thought disorder ------ loose associations illogical contructs formication ------ insects are crawling all over me free-floating anxiety ------ anxiety not attached to any one reason fugue ------ amnesia by fleeing immediate life situation global aphasia ------ combo fluent and non-fluent aphasia glossolalia ------ unintelligible jargon haptic hallucination ------ hallucination of touch hebephrenia ------ wild or silly behavior mannerisms holophrastic ------ one word used to describe combo of ideas hyperalgesia ------ excessive sensitivity to pain hyperesthesia ------ sensitive to tactile stimulation hyperpragia ------ excessive thinking hypesthesia ------ lessened sensitivity to touch hypnopompic hallucination ------ hallucination while waking up hypomania ------ less intense mania idea of reference ------ misinterpreting events- think it has to do with them incorporation ------ representation of someone assimilated in self by process of oral ingestion ineffability ------ my experience is inexpressible and indescribable intellectual insight ------ I know but i don't know how to use jamais vu ------ false feeling of familiarity with real situation jargon aphasia ------ nonsense words la belle indifference ------ lack of concern about one's disability laconic speech ------ reduced quantity of spontaneous speech lethologica ------ forget name or proper noun lilliputian hallucination ------ there are little people around me logorrhea ------ excessive talking loosening of associations ------ disorder in progression of thoughts macropsia ------ things around me look larger than normal metonymy ------ misuse of word that is related but not the right one micropsia ------ objects are smaller than they really are monomania ------ preoccupied with one subject mood congruent delusion ------ delusion/mood appropriate mood-congruent hallucination ------ depressed patient hears voices that they are bad persons mood-incongruent delusion ------ incorrect reference about external reality mood-incongruent halluciation ------ hallucination not assoicated with real stimuli motor aphasia ------ understanding there, but can't speak mydriasis ------ dialtion of pupil negative signs ------ flat affect, alogia, abulia, and apathy neologism ------ new word or phrase whose derivation cannot be understood nihilism ------ nonexistence of the self or part/ total rejection of all: skepticism nihilistic delusions ------ the world and everything in it have never existed noeisis ------ chosen to lead and command panphobia ------ overwhelming fear of everything paramnesia ------ disturbance of memory reality and fantasy confused paranoid delusions ------ persecution delusions paranoid ideation ------ suspicious persecutory, less severe as delusions paraphasia ------ one word is substituted for another "clover" instead of "hand" parapraxis ------ slip of tongue or misplace article perseveration ------ pathological repetition of the same response to different stimuli pressured speech ------ increased amt. of spontaneous speech- rapid loud accelerated primary thinking process ------ seek immediate discharge and gratification of instinctual demands prosopagnosia ------ can't recognize familiar faces pseudocyesis ------ nonpregnant patient has signs and symptoms of pregnancy pseudologia phantastica ------ uncontrollable lying then acting on fantasies reaction formation ------ develop a socialized attitude that is direct antithisis of some infantile wish or impulse receptive aphasia ------ can't comprehend words, incoherent and nonsense speech receptive dysphagia ------ difficulty in comprehending oral language restricted affect ------ redution in intensity of feeling tone retropsective falsification ------ memory becomes unintentionally distorted rumination ------ preoccupation with thinking of a single idea or theme satyriasis ------ insatiable sexual need in a man scotoma ------ figurative blind spot in person's awareness secondary process thinking ------ thinking that is organized reality oriented and influenced by the demands of the environment sensorium ------ clarity of awareness about oneself and one's surroundings sensory aphasia ------ lose ability to comprehend words sensory extinction ------ fail to report one or two simultaneously presented stimuli simultagnosia ------ Impairment in the perception or integration of visual stimuli appearing simultaneously somatopagnosia ------ inability to recognize a part of one's body as one's own somnolence ------ pathologival sleepiness or drowsiness stereotypy ------ mechanical repetition of speech or physical activities sublimation ------ energy associated with unacceptable impulses is diverted into acceptable channels substitution ------ person replaces unacceptable wish with one that is more acceptable suggestibility ------ state of uncritical compliance with influence or uncritical acceptance of idea or beleif synesthesia ------ stimulation of one sense is perceived as another syntactical aphasia ------ difficulty in understanding spoken speech- gross disorder of thought and expression systematized delusion ------ group of elaborate delusions for a single theme tangentiality ------ oblique digressive or irrelevent manner of speech, central idea is not communicated thought broadcasting ------ feeling that one's thoughts are being broadcast or projected into environment thought insertion ------ delusion that thoughts are being implanted in one's mind by other people or forces thought latency ------ period of time between thought and verbal expression thought withdrawal ------ delusion that one's thoughts are being removed from one's mind by other people or forces trailing phenomenon ------ moving onjects are seen as a series of discrete and discontinuous images true insight ------ understanding of reality of situation coupled with motivational and emotional impetus to master/change behavior twilight state ------ disturbed consciousness with hallucinations undoing ------ person symbolically acts out in reverse something unacceptable that has happened. OCD unio mystica ------ feeling of mystic unity with an infinite power verbigeration ------ meaningless and stereotyped repetion of words or phrases, as seen in schizophrenia waxy flexibility ------ person maintains the body position in which they are placed word approximation ------ use of conventional words in an unconventional or inappropriate way word salad ------ inchoherent, essentially incomprehensible mixture of words and phrases- advanced schizophrenia
abreaction ------ painful repressed material brought back abulia ------ indifference about consequence of action acataphasia ------ disordered speech acathexis ------ lack of feeling/detaching acenesthesia ------ loss of sensation of physical existence acrophobia ------ fear of high places aculalia ------ nonsense speech adiadochokinesia ------ inability to perform rapidly alternating movements adynamia ------ weakness and fatigability ageusia ------ lack sense of taste agnosia ------ can't understand importance of stimuli ailurophobia ------ dread of cats akathisia ------ need to be in constant movement alexia ------ can't read anymore alexithymia ------ can't describe one's emotions or mood algophobia ------ dread of pain alogia ------ can't speak due to mental deficiency amnesiac aphasia ------ can't name previously known objects anaclitic ------ depending on others anancasm ------ repetitive/stereotyped behavior anosognosia ------ can't see own physical defect aphonia ------ loss of voice astasia abasia ------ can't stand or walk normally aura ------ warning sensations blocking ------ can't finish thought or idea bradylalia ------ slow speech bruxism ------ grinding/gnashing teeth carebaria ------ pressure feeling in head catalepsy ------ maintain body position where placed cataplexy ------ sudden loss of muscle tone catatonic stupor ------ stupor but well aware of surroundings cathexis ------ use psychic energy in idea or concept causalgia ------ burning pain cenesthesia ------ change in feeling tone in part of body circumstantiality ------ digress into unnecessary details cluttering ------ disturbance of fluency/rapid rate complex ------ feeling-toned idea conation ------ mental life concerned with craving, striving- expressed in behavior condensation ------ symbol stands for a number of components confabulation ------ filling of gaps no basis in fact constricted affect ------ reduced intensity of feeling tone conversion phenomena ------ symbolic physical symptoms involve voluntary muscles coprolalia ------ involuntary use of cuss words coprophagia ------ eat feces cryptographia ------ private written language cycloplegia ------ paralyzed eye muscles for accomodation deja entendu ------ I've heard that before deja pense ------ I've had that thought before delirium tremens ------ acute rxn withdrawal from alcohol delusion of reference ------ people are talking about me depersonalization ------ self feels unreal, happens in stress derealization ------ my surroundings have changed/aren;'t real dereism ------ doesn't face the facts devaluation ------ I or others have bad qualities dipsomania ------ compulsion to drink alcohol dreamy state ------ altered state, usually temporal lobe lesion dysarthria ------ can't articulate dysgeusia ------ impaired taste dyslalia ------ can't articulate b/c of structural prob. dysmetria ------ can't gauge distance relative to movement dyspareunia ------ pain during sexual intercourse dysphasia ------ can't comprehend oral language dysphonia ------ pain while speaking dysprosody ------ no speech melody dystonia ------ sustained postural deviations echolalia ------ repeating words ego-alien ------ pointing out bad in personality inconsistent with rest of personality ego-syntonic ------ pointing out traits that are consistent w/personality eidetic image ------ vivid mental image of objects seen encopresis ------ involuntary pooing enuresis ------ urine during sleep erotomania ------ someone is in love with me erythrophobia ------ afraid to blush euthymia ------ normal mood expansive mood ------ express feelings w/out restraint expressive aphasia ------ can understand, but cannot speak- halted externalization ------ projection fausse reconnaissance ------ false recognition floccillation ------ aimless plucking or picking folie a deux ------ mental illness shared by two persons formal thought disorder ------ loose associations illogical contructs formication ------ insects are crawling all over me free-floating anxiety ------ anxiety not attached to any one reason fugue ------ amnesia by fleeing immediate life situation global aphasia ------ combo fluent and non-fluent aphasia glossolalia ------ unintelligible jargon haptic hallucination ------ hallucination of touch hebephrenia ------ wild or silly behavior mannerisms holophrastic ------ one word used to describe combo of ideas hyperalgesia ------ excessive sensitivity to pain hyperesthesia ------ sensitive to tactile stimulation hyperpragia ------ excessive thinking hypesthesia ------ lessened sensitivity to touch hypnopompic hallucination ------ hallucination while waking up hypomania ------ less intense mania idea of reference ------ misinterpreting events- think it has to do with them incorporation ------ representation of someone assimilated in self by process of oral ingestion ineffability ------ my experience is inexpressible and indescribable intellectual insight ------ I know but i don't know how to use jamais vu ------ false feeling of familiarity with real situation jargon aphasia ------ nonsense words la belle indifference ------ lack of concern about one's disability laconic speech ------ reduced quantity of spontaneous speech lethologica ------ forget name or proper noun lilliputian hallucination ------ there are little people around me logorrhea ------ excessive talking loosening of associations ------ disorder in progression of thoughts macropsia ------ things around me look larger than normal metonymy ------ misuse of word that is related but not the right one micropsia ------ objects are smaller than they really are monomania ------ preoccupied with one subject mood congruent delusion ------ delusion/mood appropriate mood-congruent hallucination ------ depressed patient hears voices that they are bad persons mood-incongruent delusion ------ incorrect reference about external reality mood-incongruent halluciation ------ hallucination not assoicated with real stimuli motor aphasia ------ understanding there, but can't speak mydriasis ------ dialtion of pupil negative signs ------ flat affect, alogia, abulia, and apathy neologism ------ new word or phrase whose derivation cannot be understood nihilism ------ nonexistence of the self or part/ total rejection of all: skepticism nihilistic delusions ------ the world and everything in it have never existed noeisis ------ chosen to lead and command panphobia ------ overwhelming fear of everything paramnesia ------ disturbance of memory reality and fantasy confused paranoid delusions ------ persecution delusions paranoid ideation ------ suspicious persecutory, less severe as delusions paraphasia ------ one word is substituted for another "clover" instead of "hand" parapraxis ------ slip of tongue or misplace article perseveration ------ pathological repetition of the same response to different stimuli pressured speech ------ increased amt. of spontaneous speech- rapid loud accelerated primary thinking process ------ seek immediate discharge and gratification of instinctual demands prosopagnosia ------ can't recognize familiar faces pseudocyesis ------ nonpregnant patient has signs and symptoms of pregnancy pseudologia phantastica ------ uncontrollable lying then acting on fantasies reaction formation ------ develop a socialized attitude that is direct antithisis of some infantile wish or impulse receptive aphasia ------ can't comprehend words, incoherent and nonsense speech receptive dysphagia ------ difficulty in comprehending oral language restricted affect ------ redution in intensity of feeling tone retropsective falsification ------ memory becomes unintentionally distorted rumination ------ preoccupation with thinking of a single idea or theme satyriasis ------ insatiable sexual need in a man scotoma ------ figurative blind spot in person's awareness secondary process thinking ------ thinking that is organized reality oriented and influenced by the demands of the environment sensorium ------ clarity of awareness about oneself and one's surroundings sensory aphasia ------ lose ability to comprehend words sensory extinction ------ fail to report one or two simultaneously presented stimuli simultagnosia ------ Impairment in the perception or integration of visual stimuli appearing simultaneously somatopagnosia ------ inability to recognize a part of one's body as one's own somnolence ------ pathologival sleepiness or drowsiness stereotypy ------ mechanical repetition of speech or physical activities sublimation ------ energy associated with unacceptable impulses is diverted into acceptable channels substitution ------ person replaces unacceptable wish with one that is more acceptable suggestibility ------ state of uncritical compliance with influence or uncritical acceptance of idea or beleif synesthesia ------ stimulation of one sense is perceived as another syntactical aphasia ------ difficulty in understanding spoken speech- gross disorder of thought and expression systematized delusion ------ group of elaborate delusions for a single theme tangentiality ------ oblique digressive or irrelevent manner of speech, central idea is not communicated thought broadcasting ------ feeling that one's thoughts are being broadcast or projected into environment thought insertion ------ delusion that thoughts are being implanted in one's mind by other people or forces thought latency ------ period of time between thought and verbal expression thought withdrawal ------ delusion that one's thoughts are being removed from one's mind by other people or forces trailing phenomenon ------ moving onjects are seen as a series of discrete and discontinuous images true insight ------ understanding of reality of situation coupled with motivational and emotional impetus to master/change behavior twilight state ------ disturbed consciousness with hallucinations undoing ------ person symbolically acts out in reverse something unacceptable that has happened. OCD unio mystica ------ feeling of mystic unity with an infinite power verbigeration ------ meaningless and stereotyped repetion of words or phrases, as seen in schizophrenia waxy flexibility ------ person maintains the body position in which they are placed word approximation ------ use of conventional words in an unconventional or inappropriate way word salad ------ inchoherent, essentially incomprehensible mixture of words and phrases- advanced schizophrenia
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