Psychiatry Flashcards
1
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Dermatillomania
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Compulsive skin picking
2
Q
Fregoli syndrome
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Where someone familiar is falsely identified in strangers
3
Q
De Clerambault’s syndrome
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AKA erotomania
Unfounded belief that someone is in love with them, generally someone of higher social status
4
Q
Capgras syndrome
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Belief that a familiar person has been supplanted by a stranger who is their exact double
5
Q
Cotard’s syndrome
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Nihilistic delusion usually of body or self having disappeared
6
Q
Ekbom’s syndrome
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Delusion of infestation with insects (bug bomb)
7
Q
Ganser syndrome
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Syndrome of approximate answers - will answer questions slightly wrong
