OCD / PTSD
Term that describes uncontrollable, persistent thoughts, images, or impulses that are intrusive
What are obsessions
State of persistently elevated mood, feelings of grandiosity, overenthusiasm, racing thoughts, rapid speech, and impulsive actions
What is mania / manic episode
Name three of the five domains of psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia spectrum (either positive or negative)
1. Delusions
2. Hallucinations
3. Disorganized Thought/Speech
4. Disorganized/Abnormal Movement
5. Restricted Affect and Avolition/Asociality
Group of disorders characterized by significant physical symptoms for which there is no apparent organic cause
What are Somatic Symptom Disorders
The simultaneous presence of love and hate towards the same person (object)
What is ambivalence
Deliberate, purposeful, and goal-directed behaviors meant to neutralize and reduce anxiety/distress in OCD (not necessarily realistically connected to event or situation)
What are rituals?
Term that describes intense feelings of sadness
Hint: not euphoria
What is dysphoria
Disorder which is characterized by a mix of schizophrenia and a mood disorder (depressive or bipolar)
What is Schizoaffective Disorder
Disruption in the normal integration of memory, identity, perception, and/or consciousness
What is dissociation
Psychiatrist who is credited for differentiating Bipolar and Schizophrenic forms of psychosis?
hint: Manic-Depressive and Dementia Praecox
Who is Emil Kraepelin?
Name two of the four common themes of obsessions:
1. Germs, Contamination, Illness
2. Causing or Not Preventing Harm/Bad Luck
3. Forbidden Thoughts (aggressive, sexual, religious)
4. Symmetry/Order
Name three of the seven symptoms in the diagnostic criteria for a Manic Episode:
1. Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity
2. Decreased need for sleep (e.g., feels rested after only 3 hours of sleep)
3. More talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking
4. Flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing
5. Distractibility (i.e., attention too easily drawn to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli), as reported or observed
6. Increase in goal-directed activity (either socially, at work or school, or sexually) or psychomotor agitation (i.e., purposeless non-goal–directed activity)
7. Excessive involvement in activities that have a high potential for painful consequences (e.g., engaging in unrestrained buying sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business investments)
Early signs or symptoms that indicate the onset of a disease before more diagnostically specific signs and symptoms develop (e.g. in schizophrenia, abnormal social withdrawal and intense paranoia)
What is prodromal
Disorder characterized by deliberately faking an illness specifically to gain medical attention in order to become a patient; involves evidence that the individual is providing false information or behaving deceptively
Factitious Disorder or Munchausen syndrome
***Defense mechanism in which an individual tries to cancel out unhealthy, destructive, or threatening thoughts or actions by engaging in contrary behavior
Hint: think Freud's case of obsessional neurosis / ratman
What is undoing
Four disorders under the subheading of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
What are Hoarding, Trichotillomania (hair-pulling), Excoriation (skin-picking), Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Term that describes a loss of interest, pleasure, or enjoyment in activities that were previously rewarding
What is anhedonia
Name four of the nine common themes of delusions:
1. Persecutory delusions
2. Delusion of reference
3. Grandiose delusion
4. Delusions of being controlled
5. Thought Broadcasting
6. Thought Insertion
7. Thought Withdrawal
8. Delusions of Guilt/Sin
9. Somatic Delusion
Research supports trauma as a factor in the development of Functional Neurological Disorder with __% reporting history of exposure to violence and __% reporting history of sexual assault in childhood
What is 50 and 25
In Louis Sass's paper on the Three Dangers, he suggests that in the treatment of schizophrenia spectrum: people forget the ____ ____
What is the ontological difference?
In addition to exposure to actual/threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence; name all four types of symptoms present in the diagnosis of PTSD:
1. Reexperiencing of the traumatic event
2. Avoidance
3. Negative changes in thought or mood
4. Hypervigilance or chronic arousal
For a diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder recurrent: one must have two or more depressive episodes lasting ____, and separated by ____
What is two weeks and two months
For a diagnosis of Schizophrenia: one must have continuous disturbance for at least ____ with at least ____ of symptoms
What is 6 months and 1 month
Rare condition of Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder where the person experiences the physical and emotional symptoms of pregnancy without being pregnant
What is pseudocyesis
In Mourning and Melancholia, Freud notes that melancholia consists of: loss of the object, ambivalence AND _________
What is the regression of libido into the ego