Chabner 17
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- amnesia
- loss of memory
- anxiety
- varying degree sof uneasiness or dread accompanied by symptoms
- apathy
- absence of emotion; lack of interest or emotional involvement
- autism
- severe lack of repsonsiveness to others; preoccupation with inner thoughts; withdrawal and retarded langauge development
- compulsion
- uncontrollable urge to perform an act repeatedly
- conversion
- anxiety becomes a bodily symptom, such as blindess, deafness, or paralysis, that does not have an organic basis
- delusion
- a fixed, false belief that cannot be changed by logical reasoning or evidence
- dissociation
- uncomfortable feelings are separated from tehir real object; in order to avoid mental distress, the feelings are redireted towards a second object or behavoir pattern
- dysphoria
- sadness, hopelessness; depressive mood
- euphoria
- exaggerated felling of well-being ("high")
- hallucination
- false or unreal sensory perception; an illusion is example
- labile
- unstable; undergoing rapid emotional change
- mania
- state of excessive excitability
- mutism
- nonreactive state; stupor
- paranoia
- delusions of persecution or grandeur or combinations of the two
- branch of psychiatry delaing with legal matters
- forensic psychiatry
- unconscious part of the personality
- id
- conscious, coordinating part of the personality
- ego
- conscience or moral part of the personality
- superego
- the ability to perceive fact from fantasy
- reality testing
- unconscious technique used to resolve or conceal conflicts and anxiety
- defense mechanism
- branch of psychology dealing with patient care
- clinical
- persistent idea, emotion, or urge
- obsession
- neurosis
- emotional disorder; anxiety or fear
- affect
- emotional response
- disorder invovling paraphilias
- sexual disorder
- physical symptoms of disorder can't be explained
- somatoform disorder
- loss of intellectual ability w/ impairment of memory, judgement, and reasoning
- dementia
- thinking with faulty perception and irrational behavoir
- delirium
- amphetamines
- CNS (central nervous system) stiulants
- somatoform disorder
- conversion disorder
- sexual disorder
- pedophilia
- phobia
- anxiety disorder
- bipolar I and II
- mood disorder
- catatonia
- schizophrenia
- dissociative disorder
- fugue
- repression
- unacceptable thoughts pushed into unconsciousness; defense mechanism
- dysthymia
- depressed mood over 2-year period, but not as great as major depression
- cyclothymic disorder
- 2 years of depression adn mania
- opioids
- morphine and heroin
- cocaine
- stimulants; euphoria and hallucinations
- flamboyant, theatrical, emotionally immature
- histrionic
- no loyalty for others; furtration and blame problems
- antisocial
- fantasies of success and power; self-importance
- narcissism
- pervasive, unwarranted supsiciousness and mistrust of people
- paranoid
- emoitnall cold, aloof - indifferent to praise/criticism
- schizoied
- instabililty in realtionships and self of self; rejection and overinvolvement with people
- borderline