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PHENOMENOLOGY
What is a mental disorder?

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Any disorder or disability of the mind, excluding substance abuse

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Define psychosis

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Severe mental disturbance characterised by a loss of contact with external reality (schizophrenia)

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Define neurosis

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Relatively mild mental illness in which there is no loss of connection with reality (depression, anxiety)

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Define phenomenology

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The study of signs + symptoms describing abnormal states of mind

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Define illusion

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The false perception of a real external stimulus

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Define hallucination

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An internal perception occurring without a corresponding external stimulus. The person experiences it as they would a real perception.

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In terms of hallucinations, what are the main senses?

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Auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory, tactile

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What are somatic hallucinations?

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within the person

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What are hypnogogic/hypnopompic hallucinations?

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hypnogogic = when going to sleep
hypnopompic = when waking up

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What are autoscopic hallucinations?

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seeing oneself

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What are reflex hallucinations?

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production of a hallucination in one sensory modality by a stimulus in a different modality

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What are extracampine hallucinations?

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hallucinations which are experienced outside the normal sensory field (seeing something behind them)

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What is Charles-Bonnet Syndrome?
What conditions may it be seen in?

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  • Complex visual hallucinations in a patient with partial/severe blindness (macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy).
  • Pts understand that the hallucinations are not real + so often have insight
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Define pseudo-hallucination

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A perception in the absence of an external stimulus, experienced in one’s subjective inner space of the mind rather than external sensory objects – often have insight

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Define delusion

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A fixed, false, unshakable belief which is out of keeping with the patient’s educational, cultural + social norms. It’s held with extraordinary conviction + certainty (even despite contradictory evidence)

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In terms of delusions, what are persecutory?

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the idea that someone/something is trying to inflict harm on them (being followed, poisoned, drugged, spied)

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In terms of delusions, what are grandiose?

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idea that the person themselves are powerful/crucially important beyond truth

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In terms of delusions, what are nihilistic?

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theme involves intense feelings of emptiness, sense of everything being unreal

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In terms of delusions, what are guilt?

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ungrounded feeling of remorse or guilt for situations, can be due to a minor error or unrelated to them (may feel responsible for world disasters)

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In terms of delusions, what are…
i) poverty?
ii) reference?
iii) inadequacy?
iv) religious?

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i) pt strongly believes they are financially incapacitated
ii) false belief that insignificant remarks/objects in one’s environment have personal meaning/significance (newspaper has hidden text related to them)
iii) false belief of inability to accomplish tasks + meet expectations
iv) false belief related to religious themes/subject matter.

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What are the 3 delusional misidentification syndromes?

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  • Capgras = idea someone has been replaced by an imposter.
  • Fregoli = idea various people are the same person
  • Intermetamorphosis = one significant relative is replaced by another (father is son).
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Define delusional perception and give an example

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A primary delusion of two components – where a normal perception is subject to delusional interpretation
E.g. – traffic light changed red so that means I am the son of God

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Define thought alienation

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Sx of psychosis in which patients feel that their own thoughts are in some way no longer in their control

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What are the 3 components of thought alienation?

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thought insertion, withdrawal and broadcast

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PHENOMENOLOGY What is thought insertion?
Insertion = delusional belief thoughts placed into pts head from external
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PHENOMENOLOGY What is thought withdrawal?
Withdrawal = delusional belief thoughts removed from head from external
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PHENOMENOLOGY What is thought broadcast?
Broadcast = delusional belief thoughts are accessible directly to others without expressing them
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define concrete thinking
Loss of ability to understand abstract concepts + metaphorical ideas leading to a strictly literal form of speech
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define thought disorder and formal thought disorder
TD = disorganised thinking as evidenced by disorganised speech/beliefs FTD = pts expressive language (form) indicates that the links between consecutive thoughts aren't meaningful (disorganised speech evident from disorganised thinking)
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PHENOMENOLOGY In terms of thought disorders, what is flight of ideas?
Abrupt leaps between topics as a result of thoughts presenting more rapidly than can be articulated. Each thought = more associations. ?Discernible links between successive ideas. Presents as pressure of speech.
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PHENOMENOLOGY In terms of thought disorders, what is thought block?
sudden + unintentional break in chain of thought, may be explained as due to thought withdrawal
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PHENOMENOLOGY In terms of thought disorders, what is circumstantiality?
irrelevant wandering in conversation (going around the point).
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define confabulation + state what conditions you would find this in
Giving a false account to fill in a gap in memory. | Korsakoff's psychosis + dementia
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define passivity phenomena + somatic passivity
- Delusion that one is a passive recipient of actions from an external agency against their will - The same but sensations are controlled by an external agency
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define psychomotor retardation + state what conditions you would find this in
- Slowing of thoughts + movements with decreased spontaneous movement, often due to subjective sense of actions being laborious - Parkinson's, depression
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define incongruity of affect
Emotional responses that differs markedly from the expected emotion for the situation/subject like laughing whilst discussing trauma
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define blunting of affect
A limited range of normal emotional responsiveness
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define flattening of affect
Diminution of the normal range of emotions
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define depersonalisation + derealisation
- Where a person doesn't believe themselves to be real - Where a person doesn't believe the world/people around them to be real
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define obsession
Recurrent thoughts/feelings/images/impulses which are intrusive + persistent despite efforts to resist. They are recognised as the person's own thoughts (insight preserved)
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define compulsion
Repetitive, purposeful behaviour performed in response to an obsession despite the recognition of its senselessness + anxiety if not performed
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define thought echo
Experience of an auditory hallucination in which the content is the individual's current thoughts spoken aloud as if next to them
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define catatonia/stupor
Abnormality of movement + behaviour arising from a disturbed mental state, typically severe depression or schizophrenia
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define anhedonia
Inability to feel pleasure in normally pleasurable activities
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define belle indifference
A surprising lack of concern for, or denial of, apparently severe functional disability (not specific to psych)
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define dissociation
When a person feels disconnected from themselves or their surroundings (including emotions)
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define conversion
Development of features suggestive of physical illness but which are attributed to psych illness or emotional disturbance rather than organic pathology
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define sterotypy
Repetitive + bizarre act which is not goal-directed. Action may have delusional significance to the pt
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define mannerism
Abnormal + occasionally bizarre performance of voluntary, goal-directed activity
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define projection + give an example
What is emotionally unacceptable in the self is unconsciously rejected + projected to others (e.g. mother projects anxiety on children claiming they're anxious)
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define over-valued idea
A false or exaggerated belief held with conviction but not with delusional intensity. This idea although perhaps reasonable, dominates their life + causes distress
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PHENOMENOLOGY Define loosening of associations
This is thought disorder denoting a lack of connection between ideas. Links between ideas may be illogical or the speech may wander between trains of thought. It is also known as knight's move thinking
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PHENOMENOLOGY define pressure of speech
a tendency to speak rapidly, motivated by an urgency that may not be apparent to the listener
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PHENOMENOLOGY define akathisia
an inability to keep still, restlessness
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PHENOMENOLOGY define perseveration
When someone gets stuck on a topic or an idea There may be repetition of words or phrases

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