PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Schizophreniform Disorder, Schizoaffective Disorder, Psychosis
15 Jun 2013
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In schizophrenia, the association between successive thoughts are very loose. No warning or indication of how the two thoughts are related. Poverty of speech content: individuals often say relatively little, fairly quiet, not very talkative, may not speak for hours at a time, speak in short crisp sentences. Vagueness, abstraction in speech: talking about abstract ideas. Neologisms, clanging, perseveration: speaking in rhymes, playing with the sound of speech (clanging), neologisms is the coining of new terms, perseveration is repeating words or ideas over and over again. Content of thought: implausible delusion, beliefs that have no foundation in reality and outside the acceptable range of belief, alien and unusual, beyond the realm of possibility, certain kinds of delusions that are more common. External control: outside agents are controlling actions and behaviours. Delusions of grandeur: believing one is the reincarnation of mohamed or.
