Types of psychotic disorder
Psychotic thinking/behavior >6 months with significant impairment.
Schizophrenia
Psychosis due to intoxication/withdrawal.
Substance‑induced psychosis
Complete and severe lack of energy.
Anergia
Person believes their thoughts are not their own, but placed into their mind by an external force
Thought insertion
Speech pattern where words are grouped together by how they sound rather than what they mean.
Clang association
Personality impairments with mild psychotic features.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Schizophrenia + mood disorder (depressive or bipolar).
Schizoaffective
Poverty of speech, uses minimal or one-word replies, struggles to put thoughts into words.
Alogia
Belief that private thoughts, words, or actions can directly cause or prevent external, physical events without logical cause-and-effect.
Magical thinking
Automatic repetition of words, phrases, or sounds that a person has heard from others or from media
Echolalia
Delusions ≥1 month; functioning not markedly impaired.
Delusional Disorder
Psychotic features or catatonia not meeting criteria for other disorders.
Psychotic or catatonic disorder NOS
Severe lack of drive or ability to start/complete goal-directed activities.
Avolition
False, fixed belief of being mistreated, spied on, or harmed by others, even when facts show it is not true.
Persecution
Thought disorder where a person's speech jumps from one idea to another with little or no logical connection, making it hard to follow.
Associative looseness
Psychosis lasting 1 day–1 month.
Brief psychotic disorder
Symptoms 1–6 months; may not impair functioning.
Schizophreniform
Inability/reduced ability to feel pleasure/joy from activities once found enjoyable
Anhedonia
Person believes that random, neutral, or innocuous everyday events have direct, personal meaning or significance to them.
Ideas of reference
Newly invented words or phrases that have a clear meaning to the speaker but no meaning to anyone else.
Neologisms