Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

Contributors in Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Hyposchemazia is characterised by the reduced awareness of a patient's body image and Aschemazia by the absence of it. These disorders can have many varied causes such as physical injuries, mental ...

Gegenhalten

Health care; Psychiatry

Gegenhalten is a catatonic phenomenon in which the subject opposes all passive movements with the same degree of force as applied by the examiner. It is slightly different to negativism in which the ...

Fregoli's syndrome

Health care; Psychiatry

In Fregoli syndrome, the person feels that a person not known to him previously gets changed to a familiar person or one of his close family members. This is in contrast to Capgras syndrome in which ...

Folie simultanée

Health care; Psychiatry

In folie simultanée, or subtype B of folie a deux, a delusional system emerges simultaneously and independently in two closely related persons, and the separation of the two would not be beneficial ...

Idée fixe

Health care; Psychiatry

Idée fixe is an alternate term for an overvalued idea. In this condition, a belief that might seem reasonable both to the patient and to other people comes to dominate completely the patient's ...

Ideas of reference

Health care; Psychiatry

Delusional ideas wherein seemingly random stimuli is thought to be referring to the individual. For example, if a car beeps outside, the individual feels it was directed toward him or herself.

Gedankenlautwerden

Health care; Psychiatry

In gedankenlautwerden , a patient hears thoughts spoken aloud. Thoughts are heard in the form of a voice at the same time as they are thought, not afterwards.