Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

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Psychiatry

This is an alternate term for delusional perception. It is one of the Schneiderian first rank symptoms and is defined as a true perception, to which a patient attributes a false meaning. For example, ...

Asyndesis

Health care; Psychiatry

Alternate term for Loosening of association. A milder form of derailment of thought, in which a person goes on jumping from one topic to another and there is little connexion among the topics. This ...

Apperception

Health care; Psychiatry

Apperception is a normal phenomenon and refers to the ability to undestand sensory inputs in their context, to interpret them and to incorporate them into experience. Failure of apperception is seen ...

Autistic thinking

Health care; Psychiatry

Autistic thinking is a term used to refer to thinking not in accordance with the facts of reality and emphasises preoccupation with inner experience. See also Dereistic thinking.

Autochthonous delusion

Health care; Psychiatry

Jaspers defined this as a delusion arising without apparent cause. For example, suddendly, without apparent cause, having the delusional belief that you are an alien.

Autokabalesis

Health care; Psychiatry

An uncommonly used term used for suicide committed by jumping from a very high place.

Reduplicative hallucination

Health care; Psychiatry

In reduplicative hallucinations there is the preception of seeing a double. Particular kinds of reduplicative hallucination include autoscopy, heautoscopy and out-of-body experiences.