Thought Content and Process
Thinking: Thought Content
ruminations
recurrent themes
Thinking: Thought Content
thought broadcasting
others know thoughts
Thought Content Descriptors: Delusions
persecution
others out to get them
Thought Process Descriptors:
perseveration
thought process where no matter the topic or question, the patient always goes back to the same subject
Thought Process Descriptors:
echolalia
speech repeats words or phrases of interviewer
Thinking: Thought Content
paranoia
suspiciousness
Thinking: Thought Content
thought insertion
have implanted thoughts
Thought Content Descriptors: Delusions
reference
special messages from environment
Thought Process Descriptors:
thought blocking:
an experience where a person suddenly finds themselves unable to think, speak, or move in response to events that are happening around them.
Thought Process Descriptors:
illogical speech
the speech doesn't “fit” or make sense to the topic, conversation, or what's going on.
Thinking: Thought Content
obsessions
unwanted repetitive thoughts
Thought Content Descriptors: Delusions
religious:
god or chosen one
Thought Content Descriptors: Delusions
nihilistic
dead or doesn't exist
Thought Process Descriptors:
Clang:
Combining unrelated words or phrases because they have similar sounds.
Thought Process Descriptors:
flight of ideas
occurs when someone talks quickly and erratically, jumping rapidly between ideas and thoughts.
Thinking: Thought Content
ideas of reference
occurrences in environment related to patient (very generalized)
Thought Content Descriptors: Delusions
Somatic:
body is diseased or abnormal
Thought Content Descriptors: Delusions
influence or control
have special powers or being controlled
Thought Process Descriptors:
word salad
words and phrases that may appear to be random and unrelated come out in an incoherent sequence
Thought Process Descriptors:
loose association
a lack of connection between ideas. moving quickly from one idea to an unrelated one in the same sentence, expressing a random jumble of words and phrases.
Thinking: Thought Content
magical thinking
thinking about it makes it happen
Thought Content Descriptors: Delusions
grandeur
important or famous
Thought Process Descriptors:
concrete thinking
reasoning that’s based on what you can see, hear, feel, and experience in the here and now
Thought Process Descriptors:
neologisms
words that patients make up and are often a condensation of several words that are unintelligible to another person
Thought Process Descriptors:
circumstantially
when the patient includes a lot of unnecessary and insignificant details in your conversation or writing.