Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

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Psychiatry

Literally means jumping off the rails. Alternate term used for derailment of thought (a morbid form of loosening of association or asyndesis). A Schneiderian term by origin. In this form of thought ...

écho de la pensée

Health care; Psychiatry

In écho de la pensée, meaning "thought echo" in French, thoughts seem to be spoken aloud just after being produced. The patient hears the 'echo' of his thoughts in the form of a voice after he has ...

Folie communiqué

Health care; Psychiatry

Folie communiquée, or subtype C of folie à deux, occurs when a normal person suffers a contagion of his ideas after resisting them for a long time. Once he acquires these beliefs he maintains them ...

Folie imposée

Health care; Psychiatry

Folie imposée, or subtype A of folie a deux, is the most common form in which the dominant person imposes a delusion into a person who was not previously mentally ill. Separation of the two results ...

Doppelgänger

Health care; Psychiatry

The Doppelgänger is a phenomenon in which the person feels that his exact "double" is present alongside him every time and goes with him wherever he goes.

Folie induite

Health care; Psychiatry

In folie induite, or subtype D of folie a deux, a person who is already psychotic adds the delusions of a closely associated person to his own.

Extracampine

Health care; Psychiatry

Extracampine hallucinations are hallucinations beyond the possible sensory field, e.g., 'seeing' somebody standing behind you is a visual extracampine hallucination experience.