Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

Contributors in Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Autoscopy is the reduplicative hallucination of "seeing one's own body at a distance" and the person sees it from the original place where he or she is sitting like a musician seeing himself sitting ...

Illusion des sosies

Health care; Psychiatry

In Capgras syndrome, the patient feels that a person familiar to him , usually a family member has been replaced by a double i.e. an identical looking imposter. Capgras Syndrome and Fregoli syndrome ...

Capgras' syndrome

Health care; Psychiatry

Automatism

Health care; Psychiatry

Automatisms are sequences of activity that occur without conscious control. They may be simple and repetitive (tic-like) or complex, and are usually natural-looking but purposeless; for example, ...

Bouffée délirante

Health care; Psychiatry

Bouffée délirante is a French term used in the past for acute and transient psychotic disorders. The symptoms usually have an acute onset and reach their peak within two weeks. The symptoms start ...

Automatic obedience

Health care; Psychiatry

Automatic obedience is an exaggerated co-operation with an examiner's request, as if the patient were an 'automaton' robotically obeying a command. It is usually a sign of catatonia.