Definitions Flashcards
How do you define a Hallucination?
A perception in the absence of stimulus -
can be based on perception -delusional peception
Hypnagogic - state before falling asleep
Hypopompic -state before waking up
What are the 3 extra perceptive hallucination types?
Extracampine - sense of presence of someone near/mouvement near you (without stimuli)
Elemental - simple hallucination -such as flashes of lights
Charles de bonnet -Reccuring hallucinations in someone lacking sight
what are charles de bonnet hallucinations
reccuring hallucinations in someone with impaired vision
Patterns,images, people or places
what are the 5 types of perceptive hallucinations?
Auditory -ie hearing voices
a) tought echo - projection to others
b) 3rd person voices - voices talking about you in 3rd person
c) Running commentary -running in background out loud
d) Command -2nd person telling them to do things
Visual - seeing shapes that arent there
Olfactory - Smelling, often unplesent
gustatory- tasting, often unpleasent
tactile - feeling touches -often bugs crawling over you (Formication)
Define illusion?
Altered perception of a real object -
eg– pareidolic illusion -percieving meaningful images from vagues stumili - eg seing face in fire
Define delusion and their 2 types
Delusion in the a fixed, false belief held despire evidence of the contrary that cannot be explained by patients background
belief is either -
primary -not understandable/not occuring in response to pathophys –ie delusion in psychophernia
secondary - understandable -induced by an underlying morbid psychopathology -ie delusions of grandeur in mania
can also be mood congruent -goes with mood (eg manic person thinking they are god)
or mood incongruent -agasint mood/not in relation (manic person believes a news anchor would disapprove)
What is persecutory/paranoid delusion
Most common one -
feeling like someone is after them -
ie their or a loved one is being watched by the FBI
What is passivity/control delusion ?
the feeling that someone else is controlling you -
somatic passivity –same but the feeling sensations are being forced on them
What is grandiose delusions
The belief that they are someone of great improtence
what is reference delusion
feeling that unscupricisous occurences refer to the pt - feel like a news bulletin being targetted at them
What is somatic delusion? and Ekboms syndrome?
Delusion related to the body and functions rather than the mind -believe they are abnormal (unconsciously)
but unlike hypocondriacs -cant even think that this might not be the case
also called MONOsymptomatic hypercondriac
Ekboms is specififc to infestation -belief that one is infested by parasites
What is hyperchondriasis
Unconscioulsy pretending they have a medical illnes -no malignering intent -
can entrainain the idea that things are ok
Unconsciously believing they have a serious condition (ie cancer) despite evidence of contrary
What is factitious disordr/munchausen
CONSIOUSLY pretending to have a medical illness (bu not malignerant motive) to recieve satisfaction from being in sick role
Munchausen by proxy - mother abuses child to bring them in for care (or just says hes sick all the time)
What is malignering delusion?
False and fradulent simulation or exageration of physical/mental illness -for a benefit (financial, drugs, etc)
What is othello syndrome
Delusion that ones partner is cheating on them
