(delusional jealousy):

false belief derived from pathological jealousy

about a person's lover being unfaithful

(waxy flexibility): condition

in which a person can be molded into a

position that is then maintained; when an

examiner moves the person's limb, the limb

feels as if it were made of wax.

a feeling of weariness, sleepiness, or

irritability following a period of mental or

bodily activity.

a form of dereistic thought:

thinking similar to that of the preoperational

phase in children

a person's exaggerated

conception of his or her importance,

power, or identity

a person's expression of feelings

without restraint, frequently with overestimation

of their significance or importance

a person's false

belief that he or she is being harassed,

cheated, or persecuted; often found in

litigious patients who have a pathological

tendency to take legal action because

of imagined mistreatment

a person's false

belief that the behavior of others refers to

himself or herself; that events, objects, or

other persons have a particular and

unusual significance, usually of a negative

nature; derived from idea of reference,

in which a person falsely feels that

others are talking about him or her

a person's false belief

that he or she is bereft or will be deprived of

all material possessions.

a person's inability to, or difficulty

in, describing or being aware of emotions or

mood

abrupt interruption in train of thought

before a thought or idea is finished; after a brief

pause, person indicates no recall of what was

being said or was going to be said (also known

as thought deprivation).

absence or near absence of any signs

of affective expression; voice monotonous, face

immobile

acute, episodic, intense attack of anxiety

associated with overwhelming feelings of dread

and autonomic discharge.

agitated, purposeless

motor activity, uninfluenced by external stimuli

air of confidence and enjoyment;

mood more cheerful than usual

an absurd, totally implausible,

strange false belief

association of words similar

in sound but not in meaning; words have no

logical connection: may include rhyming and

punning

automatic compulsive activity,

anxiety reducing in origin.

automatic following of

suggestions

automatic performance of an act or

acts generally representing unconscious symbolic

activity.

bewildered, restless, confused, disoriented

reaction associated with fear and hallucinations.

blocking out only those

things that generate anxiety.

clinically significant behavior

or psychological syndrome associated with distress

or disability, not just an expected response

to a particular event or limited to relations

between a person and society.

coexistence of two opposing

impulses toward the same thing in the same person

at the same time

communicated

emotional illness between two (or three) persons

complex feeling state with psychic, somatic,

and behavioral components that is related to affect and

mood.

compliant and uncritical

response to an idea or influence.

compulsion to pull out

hair.

condition in which the emotional

tone is in harmony with the accompanying

idea, thought, or speech; also further

described as broad or full affect in which a full

range of emotions is appropriately expressed

craving and eating nonfood substances,

such as paint and clay

decreased motor

and cognitive activity, as in psychomotor retardation;

visible slowing of thought, speech, and

movements.

delusion that

thoughts are being removed from a person's

mind by other persons or forces

delusion that a

person's thoughts can be heard by others,

as though they were being broadcast

over the air.

delusion that a person's

thoughts are being controlled by

other persons or forces.

delusion that thoughts

are being implanted in a person's mind

by other persons or forces

delusion with

content that has no association to mood or is

mood neutral

delusion with

mood-appropriate content

delusional belief, more common

in women than in men, that someone is

deeply in love with them

detaching emotions from thoughts,

ideas, or persons

disharmony between the

emotional feeling tone and the idea, thought, or

speech accompanying it.

disturbance in affect manifested

by severe reduction in the intensity of externalized

feeling tone.

disturbance in the

form of thought rather than the content of

thought: thinking characterized by loosened

associations, neologisms, and illogical constructs:

thought process is disordered, and the

person is defined as psychotic.

disturbance of consciousness in

which reactions to environmental stimuli are

inappropriate: manifested by disordered orientation

in relation to time, place, or person.

disturbance of orientation in

time, place, or person.

disturbances of consciousness are

most often associated with brain pathology.

dulled emotional tone associated with

detachment or indifference.

emotional release or discharge after

recalling a painful experience

exaggerated concern about

health that is based not on real organic pathology but, rather, on unrealistic interpretations of physical signs or sensations as abnormal

excessive attention and focus

on all internal and external stimuli, usually secondary

to delusional or paranoid states: similar

to hyperpragia, excessive thinking and mental

activity.

excessive motor and

cognitive activity, usually nonproductive and

in response to inner tension

expression of a revelatory message

through unintelligible words (also known as

speaking in tongues): not considered a disturbance

in thought if associated with practices of

specific Pentecostal religions; also known as

cn-ptolalia, a private spoken language.

failure of muscle coordination; irregularity

of muscle action.

false belief involving

functioning of the body 

false belief or beliefs

united by a single event or them

false belief, based on incorrect inference

about external reality, not consistent with

patient's intelligence and cultural background;

cannot be corrected by reasoning

false feeling that a person's

will, thoughts, or feelings are being

controlled by external forces

false feeling that self,

others, or the world is nonexistent or coming

to an end.

false perception

occurring while awakening from sleep;

generally considered nonpathological.

false perception

of touch or surface sensation, as from an

amputated limb

false perception involving

sight consisting of both formed images

and unformed images

false perception of

smell

false perception of

sound, usually voices but also other noises,

such as music; most common hallucination

in psychiatric disorders.

false perception of

taste, such as unpleasant taste, caused by an

uncinate seizure; most common in medical

disorders

false sensation of

things occurring in or to the body, most often

of visceral origin

false sensory perception

occurring while falling asleep; generally

considered nonpathological.

false sensory perception not associated

with real external stimuli: there may or

may not be a delusional interpretation of the hallucinatory

experience.

feeling of apprehension caused by anticipation

of danger, which may be internal or external

feelings of joy, euphoria, triumph,

intense self-satisfaction, or optimism

flow of thought in

which ideas shift from one subject to another in

a completely unrelated way; when severe,

speech may be incoherent.

focused attention and altered consciousness,

usually seen in hypnosis, dissociative disorders,

and ecstatic religious experiences.

function by which information stored in the

brain is later recalled to consciousness. Orientation is

the normal state of oneself and one's surroundings jn

terms of time, place, and person.

general term for an immobile

position that is constantly maintained

goal-directed flow of ideas, symbols, and

associations initiated by a problem or task and leading

toward a reality-oriented conclusion; when a logical

sequence occurs, thinking is normal

gradual or sudden deviation in train

of thought without blocking; sometimes used

synonymously with loosening of associations.

inability to concentrate attention;

state in which attention is drawn to unimportant

or irrelevant external stimuli

inability to distinguish reality from

fantasy; impaired reality testing, with the creation

of a new reality

inability to have goal-directed

associations of thought: speaker never gets from

point to desired goal

inability to make gestures or to comprehend

those made by others.

include persecutory

delusions and delusions of reference, control,

and grandeur

incoherent mixture of words and

phrases.

incomplete clearmindedness

with disturbances in perception and

attitudes.

indirect speech that is delayed

in reaching the point but eventually gets from

original point to desired goal; characterized

by overinclusion of details and parenthetical

remarks.

ingrained, habitual involuntary

movement

insatiable hunger and voracious eating;

seen in bulimia nervosa and atypical depression

is perception

modified by a person's own emotions and

thoughts

lack of feeling associated with an ordinarily

emotionally charged subject; in cathexis,

the feeling is connected

lack of physical movement, as in

the extreme immobility of catatonic schizophrenia;

may also occur as an extrapyramidal

adverse effect of antipsychotic medication

lack of reaction to, and unawareness of,

surroundings.

lack of, or diminished, ability to

sleep

loss of interest in. and withdrawal

from, all regular and pleasurable activities, often

associated with depression

markedly slowed motor

activity, often to the point of immobility and

seeming unawareness of surroundings

meaningless repetition of specific

words or phrases.

mental activity not concordant with

logic or experience.

mood abnormality with the qualitative

characteristics of mania but somewhat less

intense.

mood is regularly worst in the

morning, immediately after awakening, and

improves as the day progresses.

mood state characterized by elation, agitation,

hyperactivity, hypersexuality, and accelerated

thinking and speaking

new word created by a patient, often

by combining syllables of other words, for idiosyncratic

psychological reasons.

normal range of mood, implying

absence of depressed or elevated mood

objective evaluation and judgment

of the world outside the self.

observed expression of emotion, possibly

inconsistent with patient's description of emotion

oscillations between

euphoria and depression or anxiety.

pathological imitation of movements

of one person by another.

persisting response to a previous

stimulus after a new stimulus has been presented;

often associated with cognitive disorders

pervasive and sustained emotion subjectively

experienced and reported by a patient and observed by

others; examples include depression, elation, and anger

preoccupation wilh inner, private

world: term used somewhat synonymously

with dereism

process of transferring physical stimulation

into psychological information; mental process by which

sensory stimuli are brought to awareness

psychopathological feeling of

sadness.

psychopathological repeating of

words or phrases of one person by another

random and involuntary quick, jerky,

purposeless movements

rapid and abrupt changes in emotional

feeling tone, unrelated to external stimuli

rapid speech that is

increased in amount and difficult to interrupt

rapid, continuous verbalizations

or plays on words produce constant shifting

from one idea to another: ideas lend to be connected,

and in the less severe form a listener

may be able to follow them.

rare condition in which a patient

has the signs and symptoms of pregnancy, such as

abdominal distention, breast enlargement, pigmentation,

cessation of menses, and morning

sickness.

recall of events over past few

months.

reduced impulse to act and think, associated

with indifference about consequences of

action; a result of neurological deficit

reduction in

intensity of feeling tone, less severe than blunted

affect but clearly reduced.

removal of an inhibitory effect

that permits persons to lose control of impulses

as occurs in alcohol intoxication

repetitive fixed pattern of physical

action or speech

reproduction or recall of perceived

material within seconds to minutes.

restless, aggressive,

destructive activity, often associated

with some underlying brain pathology

restriction in the amount of

speech used; replies may be monosyllabic

seen in

catatonic schizophrenia and some patients with

brain diseases, such as encephalitis.

severe anxiety associated with motor

restlessness; similar to irritability characterized

by excessive excitability with easily triggered

anger or annoyance.

slow, sustained contractions of-the trunk

or limbs: seen in medication-induced dystonia

speech that is adequate

in amount hut conveys little information

because of vagueness, emptiness, or stereotyped

phrases.

state in which a person is easily

annoyed and provoked to anger

syndrome in older persons that

usually occurs at night and is characterized by

drowsiness, confusion, ataxia, and falling as the

result of being overly sedated with medications;

temporary loss of muscle tone and

weakness precipitated by a variety of emotional

states.

the amount of

effort exerted in focusing on certain portions of an

experience; ability to sustain a focus on one activity;

ability to concentrate.

the state of cognitive functioning

of the special senses (sometimes used as a synonym

for consciousness)

thinking containing erroneous

conclusions or internal contradictions; psychopathological

only when it is marked and when not

caused by cultural values or intellectual deficit

thought that generally is not understandable:

running together of thoughts or words

with no logical or grammatical connection,

resulting in disorganization.

thought that gives little

information because of vagueness, empty repetitions,

or obscure phrases.

thoughts or act of taking one's

own life.

uncontrollable impulse to perform

an act repetitively

voluntary assumption

of an inappropriate or bizarre posture, generally

maintained for long periods.

voluntary assumption of a

rigid posture, held against all efforts to be

moved.