Psychiatry Vocab Symptoms and Disorders
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 affect | external expression of emotion, or emotional response |
| amnesia | the loss of memory |
| anorexia nervosa | an eating disorder that involves self-starvation, a distorted body image, and low body weight |
| anxiety disorders | Characterized by unpleasant tensions, distress, and avoidance behavior; examples are phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic distress disorder. |
| apathy | a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest |
| autism | A pervasive developmental disorder marked by severe impairments in social relationships and communication as well as bizarre behavior patterns. |
| bipolar disorder | A mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression |
| bulimia nervosa | an eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging and depression |
| cannabis | substance from which marijuana is made |
| compulsion | uncontrollable urge to perform an act repeatedly |
| conversion disorder | condition marked by physical symptoms with no organic basis, appearing as a result of anxiety and unconscious inner conflict |
| defense mechanism | Unconscious technique (coping mechanism) that a person uses to resolve or conceal conflicts and anxiety. |
| delirium | confused thinking and disrupted attention usually accompanied by distorted speech and hallucinations |
| delusion | fixed, false belief that cannot be changed by logical reasoning or evidence |
| dementia | loss of intellectual abilities with impairment of memory, judgment, and reasoning as well as changes in personality. |
| depression | Major mood disorder with chronic sadness, loss of energy, hopelessness, worry, and discouragement and, commonly, suicidal impulses and thoughts. |
| dissociative disorder | Chronic or sudden disturbance of memory, identity, or consciousness; examples are multiple-personality disorder and psychogenic amnesia. |
| ego | Central coordinating branch of the personality or mind. |
| fugue | flight from customary surroundings; dissociative disorder |
| gender identity disorder | Strong and persistent cross-gender identification with the opposite sex. |
| hallucination | false sensory perception (hearing voices and seeing things) |
| id | Major unconscious part of the personality; energy from instinctual drives and desires. |
| labile | unstable; undergoing rapid emotional change |
| mania | Extreme excitement, hyperactive elation, and agitation. Don't confuse with the suffix -mania, meaning obsession. |
| mood disorders | prolonged emotion dominates a person's life |
| mutism | nonreactive state with inabililty to speak (aphonia) |
| obsessive-compulsive disorder | anxiety disorder in which recurrent thoughts and repetitive acts dominate behavior |
| paranoia | overly suspicious system of thinking; fixed delusion that one is being harassed, persecuted, or unfairly treated |
| paraphilia | Recurrent, intense sexual urge; fantasy or behavior that involves unusual objects, activities and situations. |
| personality disorders | lifelong personality patterns marked by inflexibility and impairment of social functioning |
| pervasive developmental disorders | group of childhood disorders characterized by delays in socialization and communication skills; autism and Asperger syndrome are examples |
| phobia | an irrational, persistent fear of an object, situation, or social activity |
| post-traumatic stress | Anxiety related symptoms appear following exposure to personal experience of a traumatic event |
| projective (personality) test | diagnostic personality test using unstructured stimuli (inkblots, pictures abstract patterns, incomplete sentences) to evoke responses that reflext aspects of an individual's personality |
| psychiatrist | a professional who earned a medical degree (M.D.) and complete a residency in psychiatry. Specialists in working with people with major psychological disorders - they are schooled in the biomedical model which focuses on the physical processes thought to underly mental and emotional disorders. |
| psychologist | a nonmedical doctor of psychology who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders |
| psychosis | a disorder marked by loss of contact with reality; often with delusions and hallucinations |
| reality testing | psychological process that distinguishes fact from fantasy; severely impaired in psychosis |
| repression | Defense mechanism by which anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings are forced to the unconscious. |
| schizophrenia | a disorder characterized by severe disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness, and behavior |
| sexual disorder | Paraphilias and sexual dysfunction |
| somatoform disorder | presence of physical symptoms that cannot be explained by an actual physical disorder or other well-described mental disorder such as depression |
| substance-related disorder | regular overuse of psychoactive substances (alcohol, amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, hallucinogens, opoids, and sedatives) that affect CNS |
| superego | Internalized conscience and moral part of the personality. |
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