Chapter 22 Psychiatry

Question 1

Psychiatry:

Answer 1

is the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness

Question 2

Psychiatric Disorders:

Answer 2

Sigmund Freud and personality structure:
id-Unconcious
ego-Central coordinating branch of the personality
superego-Internalized 
Defense mechanisms
Anxiety disorders-GAD, worry…
Delirium and dementia-Drug withdrawal
Dissociative disorders-loss of personality or split
Eating disorders-Bulemia
Mood disorders-Bi-Polar 
Personality disorders-Schizophrenia

Question 3

Anxiety Disorders:

Answer 3

characterized by unpleasant tension, distress,

troubled feelings, and avoidance behavior

Question 4

Types Anxiety Disorders:

Answer 4

Phobic disorders:
OCD
Post-traumatic stress disorder: fear, helplessness, insomnia, nightmares
GAD: chronic anxiety and exaggerated worry and tension

Question 5

Delirium and Dementia:

Answer 5

Disorders of abnormal cognition

thinking, perception, reasoning, judgment)

Question 6

Delirium:

Answer 6

mental confusion, incoherent speech, sensory misperception, disorientation, memory impairment

Question 7

Dementia:

Answer 7

gradual loss of intellectual abilities involving impairment of judgment, memory, abstract thinking, and personality

Question 8

Eating disorders:

Answer 8

Anorexia nervosa: refusal to maintain body weight, conscious relentless attempt to diet, excessive over activity and exercise
Bulimia: binge and purge eating using vomiting and misuse of laxatives or enemas

Question 9

Mood Disorders:

Answer 9

prolonged emotion that dominates a person’s entire mental life

Question 10

Bipolar disorder:

Answer 10

alternating manic and depressive episodes

Question 11

Cyclothymic disorder:

Answer 11

mild bipolar with at least 2 years of hypomania and numerous depressive episodes

Question 12

Depressive disorder:

Answer 12

major depression, severe dysphoria

Question 13

Personality Disorders:

Answer 13

Impaired ways of thinking and relating to and perceiving the environment and self, leading to conflict, distress, and inflexibility

Question 14

Antisocial:

Answer 14

no loyalty to or concern for others, no regard

Question 15

Borderline:

Answer 15

severely distorted self-image and feel worthless and fundamentally flawed

Question 16

Histrionic:

Answer 16

long standing attention seeking behaviors

Question 17

Paranoid:

Answer 17

unfounded fears take over

Question 18

Narcissistic-rare:

Answer 18

low self-esteem by developing a superficial sense of perfection and behavior that shows a need for constant admiration

Question 19

Schizoid:

Answer 19

loner, lack of social ineraction

Question 20

Pervasive Developmental Disorders:

Answer 20

group of childhood characterized by delays in the development of socialization and communication skills

Question 21

Autism:

Answer 21

evident during the 3 years of life, i marked by difficulties in verbal and nonverbal communication and in social and play interactions

Question 22

Asperger syndrome:

Answer 22

referred to as a less sever type of autism, normal language and normal intelligence, usually want to interact with others but don’t know how to do it

Question 23

Schizophrenia:

Answer 23

chronic psychotic disorder characterized by disturbed thinking and disorganized speech

Question 24

Schizophrenia symptoms:

Answer 24

delusions, hallucinations, thought disorder, disorder of movement, flat affect, impaired interpersonal functioning and relationship to the external world, positive syptoms

Question 25

Sexual and gender indentity disorders:

Answer 25

is a strong and persistent cross-gender identification with the opposite sex (cross-dressing and cross-sex roles, fantasies of being the gender other than the person is)

Question 26

Exhibiltionism:

Answer 26

compulsive need to expose ones body, particularly the genitals, to an unsuspecting stranger

Question 27

Fetishism:

Answer 27

the use of nonliving objects (articles of clothing) as substitutes for a human sexual love object

Question 28

Pedophilia:

Answer 28

sexual urges and fantasies involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child (age 13 or younger)

Question 29

Sexual masochism:

Answer 29

sexual gratification is gained by inflicting physical or psychological pain or humiliation on others

Question 30

Transvetic fetishism:

Answer 30

cross dressing

Question 31

Voyeruism:

Answer 31

sexual excitement is achieved by observing unsuspecting people who are naked, undressing or engaging in sexual activity

Question 32

Somatoform disorders:

Answer 32

mental conflicts are expressed as physical symptoms

Question 33

Conversion disorder:

Answer 33

repressed conflicts expressed as physical symptoms

Question 34

Hypochondriasis:

Answer 34

preoccupation with bodily aches, pains, and discomforts in the absence of real illness

Question 35

Substance related disorders:

Answer 35

Psychological dependence: Compulsion to take a drug despite adverse consequences Physiologic dependence: Withdrawal when the drug is abruptly discontinued Tolerance: Declining effect of a drug so the dose must increase

Question 36

Substances Associated with Abuse:

Answer 36

``` Alcohol Amphetamines Marijuana Cocaine Hallucinogens Opioids Sedatives, hypnotics, anxiolytics ```

Question 37

Electroconvulsive Therapy:

Answer 37

electrical current is applied to the brain while the patient is anesthetized

Question 38

Affect:

Answer 38

external expression of emotion, or emotional response

Question 39

Amnesia:

Answer 39

loss of memory

Question 40

Anorexia nervose:

Answer 40

eating disorder with excessive dieting and refusal to maintain a normal body weight

Question 41

Anxiety disorder:

Answer 41

unpleasant tension, distress, and avoidance behavior; examples are panic disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post traumatic and generalized anxiety

Question 42

Apathy:

Answer 42

absence of emotions; lack of interest or emotional involvement

Question 43

Bulmia nervosa:

Answer 43

eating disorder with binge eating followed by vomiting, purging, and depression

Question 44

Cannabis:

Answer 44

plant substance from which marijuana is obtained

Question 45

Complusion:

Answer 45

uncontrollable urge to perform an act repeadtly

Question 46

Conversion disorder:

Answer 46

condition marked by physical symptoms with no organic basis, appearing as a result of anxiety and unconscious inner conflict

Question 47

Delirium:

Answer 47

confused thinking

Question 48

Fugue:

Answer 48

flight from customary surroundings; dissociative disorder

Question 49

Id:

Answer 49

makor unconscious part of the personality; energy from instinctual drives and desires

Question 50

labile:

Answer 50

unstable; undergoing rapid emotional change

Question 51

Mania:

Answer 51

extreme excitement, hyperactive elation, and agitation

Question 52

iatr/o

Answer 52

treatment

Question 53

neutr/o

Answer 53

nerve

Question 54

phil/o

Answer 54

attraction to, love

Question 55

psych/o ment/o phren/o -thymia

Answer 55

mind

Question 56

schiz/o

Answer 56

split

Question 57

somat/o

Answer 57

body

Question 58

-genic:

Answer 58

produced by

Question 59

-leptic:

Answer 59

to seize hold of

Question 60

-mania:

Answer 60

obsessive, preoccupation