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Glossary A

A Mind Odyssey

AINSWORTH

THE STRANGE SITUATION TEST

THE SECURE CHILD

THE INSECURE AVOIDANT CHILD

THE INSECURE AMBIVALENT CHILD

THE INSECURE DISORGANISED CHILD

 

 

ADLER

INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY

SOCIAL FACTORS IN DEV. LIFE STYLES

SIBLING RIVALRY

AGGRESSIVE STRIVING AND THE DRIVE TO POWER

ORGAN INFERIORITY

MASCULINE PROTEST

HE DEV DAY HOSPITALS, THERAPEUTIC CLUBS AND GROUP THERAPIES.

FICTIVE GOALS

PSYCHIC COMPENSATION

HE INFLUENCED THE NEO FREUDIANS ,SULLIVAN,HOLMES,FROMM; USA.

 

 

ANDREASSON

SAPS

HALLUCINATIONS

AUDITORY

VOICE COMMENTING

VOICES CONVERSING

SOMATIC OR TACTILE HALLUCINATIONS

OLFACTORY HALLUCINATIONS

VISUAL HALLUCINATIONS

DELUSIONS

PERSECUTORY

JEALOSY

GUILT/SIN

GRANDIOSE

RELIGIOUS

SOMATIC

REFERENCE

CONTROLLED

MIND READING

TB

TI

TW

BIZARRE BEHAVIOUR

POSITIVE FORMAL THOUGHT DISORDER.

DERAILMENT----ASSOCIATIVE LOOSENING, IDEAS SLIP OFF TRACK.

TANGENTIALITY-----------REPLIES IN AN IRRELEVANT <>OBLIQUE WAY

INCOHERENCE---------------INCOMPREHENSIBLE AT TIMES

ILLOGICALITY-------------SPEECH WHERE ILLOGICAL CONCLUSIONS ARE

REACHED

CIRCUMSTANTIALITY-----DELAYED AND INDIRECT REACHING ITS GOAL

PRESSURE OF SPEECH-------RAPID AND DIFFICULT TO INTERUPT

DISTRACTABLE SPEECH---INTERRUPTION IN SPEECH BY OTHER STIMULI

CLANGING----SOUNDS RATHER THAN MEANING GOVERNING CHOICE OF WORDS.

SANS;

AFFECTIVE BLUNTING

APATHY/AVOLITION

ALOGIA

ANHEDONIA /ASOCIALITY

ATTENTION

ASSAGIOLI

PSYCHOSYNTHESIS

 

 

ALZHEIMER

 

 

ANGELMAN S.

LEARNING DISABILITY; HAPPY DISPOSITION

 

 

ARFVEDSON

DISCOVERED THE ELEMENT LITHIUM IN 1817

1949 CADE USED IT IN MANIA

 

 

ASHER

1951 DESCRIBED MUNCHAUSENS

 

 

AYLLON AND AZRIN

DEVELOPED THE TOKEN ECONOMY

USES PREMPAKS PRINCIPLE- BEHAVIOUR OF HIGH FREQUENCY IS USED AS A REINFORCER FOR THOSE OF LOW FREQUENCY

 

 

 

Affect

pattern of observable behaviours which is the expression of a subjectively experienced feeling state (emotion) and is variable over time in response to changing emotional states

 

 

Agnostic alexia

words can be seen but not read

 

 

Agoraphobia

literally a fear of the market place. Generally high levels of anxiety and phobic symptoms. May include a fear of crowds, open and closed spaces and traveling by public transport

 

 

Alexithymia

difficulty in being aware of or describing one's emotions

 

 

Ambitendency

series or tentative, incomplete movements carried out when a voluntary action is anticipated.

 

 

Ambivalence

simultaneous presence of opposing impulses towards the same thing

 

 

Amnesia

inability to recall past experiences

 

 

Amok

seen in South-East Asia. Outburst of aggressive behaviour in which the patient runs 'amok' during a depressive episode

 

 

Anhedonia

inability to feel enjoyment

 

 

Anosognosia

lack of awareness of a disease

 

 

Automatism

act over which a person has no control e.g. sleepwalking

 

 

Autoscopy

phantom mirror image - hallucination in which one sees and recognizes oneself

 

 

Autopagnosia

inability to name, recognize or point on command to parts of the body

 

From MULTIPLE sources INCLUDING lecture notes.