CLP 4144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Circumstantial Speech, Egosyntonic And Egodystonic, Etiology

• School: FAU
• Department: Clinical Psychology
• Course: CLP 4144
• Professor: Miller Lawrence

Document Summary

Cluster of signs and symptoms that occur together in a regular pattern that are associated with a given cause or ideology syndrome disorder but a syndrome does not have to be a disorder. Ego syntonic person who adopts, co opts, condones the symptoms. Signs and symptoms of mental disorders: dimensional vs categorical, general behavior. Who is our president?: speech & language- pressured, abnormally slow, perseverance speech (returning to same topic), circumstantial speech (returning to same topic in a circle), tangential speech (tangents) Perceptive difficulty understanding what others are saying (due to dementia, stroke) Thinking: flights of ideas fast paced movement from one thought to another, flips from one topic to another. Disturbances in thinking: delusions: false belief (could be true, hallucinations: false perception. Usually of themselves rotting away, infected, gross: **often congruent** Not as (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) as you"d thi(cid:374)k: elevated angry. Often (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g dow(cid:374)(cid:863) fro(cid:373) a (cid:373)a(cid:374)i(cid:272) episode i(cid:374) those with (cid:271)ipolar disorder.