PSY 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8.5: Neologism, Auditory Hallucination, Catatonia

• School: WWU, Western
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 351
• Professor: Stephanie Grimm

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Cannot be because of stress, sleep deprivation or drugs: auditory hallucinations most common. Ca(cid:374) (cid:271)e voi(cid:272)e speaki(cid:374)g i(cid:374)dividual"s thoughts out loud or ru(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tary of actions may issued commands or instructions etc. Often have negative quality- criticizing or threatening individual or telling hem to hurt themselves or others: visual hallucinations- second most common. Ex: see figure of man at bedside telling her she must die. Hallucinations may be consistent with delusions: tactile hallucinations involve perception that something is happening to outside of persons body. Ex: bugs crawling up back: somatic hallucinations- perception that something is happening inside body. Ex: worms are eating intestines: disorganized thinking/ speech. Ex: tendency to slip from one topic to seemingly unrelated topic with little coherent transition this is called loose association or derailment. Ex: much of abstraction has been left unsaid and undone in these products milk syrup and others due to economic, bankruptcy, tools.