pheno part 2 Flashcards
(15 cards)
Lilliputian
Abnormal perception of object - in detail but the size is smaller- delerium tremens
Extracampine
Outside the normal sensory field
Functional ( Hallunication)
Generated in the presense of unrelated stimuli - tap being turned on means my father is saying bad things
Synaethesia
Doctor writing means someone is writing across my stomach
Palinopsia
Seeing the reappearance of an object - Parkinsons
Paraphasia
Words interspersed with garbled noise/sounds
Ganser Syndrome
Approximate answers Clouding of consciousness Echolalia and echopraxia Hallucinations Somatic conversion syndrome High rate in prisoners
Omission
sudden discontinuation of chain of thought
Knight’s move thinking
bears a more tangential relationship
Fusion
merging of separate ideas
Drivelling
muddling of elements within an idea to the extent the meaning is totally obscure to the listener
Desultory thinking
expressed correctly with syntax and grammatical construction but juxtaposed inappropriately
Condensations
common themes from two or more ideas are combined to form an incomprehensible concept
Cotard’s syndrome
comprises any one of a series of delusions that range from a belief that one has lost organs, blood, or body parts to insisting that one has lost one’s soul or is dead.
obsessional thoughts have three essential features:
- a feeling of subjective compulsion
- a resistance to it
- preservation of insight