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A Mind Odyssey

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CANNON-BARD THEORY

REGARDING THE PERCEPTION OF EMOTION

SAYS THAT THE SOMATIC RESPONSES AND THE EMOTION OCCUR AT THE SAME TIME.

 

 

CADE

DISCOVERED USE OF LITHIUM

 

 

CAFFE

FIRST DESCRIBED NARCOLEPSY

 

 

CAMERON

DESCRIBED;

ASYNDESIS ----LACK OF CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THOUGHTS.

METONYMS--IMPRECISE APPROXIMATIONS SUBSTITUTED FOR PRECISE ONES, THE PTS OWN PERSONAL IDIOMS.

OVERINCLUSIONS---INABILITY TO MAINTAIN THE BOUNDARY OF THE PROBLEM

INTERPENETRATION---OF THEMES

FRAGMENTATION

INCOORDINATION

 

 

CAPGRAS

HE DESCRIBED THE CAPGRAS SYNDROME CALLING IT ILLUSION DE SOSIE.LEVY AND VALENSI SUGGESTED THEY USE HIS NAME.

NEGATIVE MISIDENTIFICATION

 

 

CATTELLS TRAIT THEORY

CA 16PF SOCIABILITY,ANXIETY,INTELLIGENCE AS PERSONALITY DEMENSIONS

THESE ARE SECOND ORDER FACTORS LIKE E.S DIMENSIONS. HE DERIVED 16 1ST OREDER FACTORS FROM 20,000 WORDS THAT DESCRIBE PERSONALITY.

2 ORDER LIKE ENYSINCKS

 

 

CAUTELA

COVERT SENSIVISATION USED IN OCD AND SEXUAL DEVIANCES

 

 

CERLETTI AND BONI

FIRST ELECTRIC FITS IN CATATONIA

 

 

CHARPENTIER

SYTHESISED CPZ

 

 

CLIFTON CAPE

C. ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES FORE THE ELDERLY-LEVEL OF DISABILITY,PREDICTION OF NEEDS.

 

 

CONOLLY

TX WITHOUT MECHANICAL RESTRAINT

 

 

COOK

TO REDUCE PREJUDICE REQUIRES;

EQUAL STATUS

POTENTIAL FOR PERSONAL ACQUANTANCE

EXPOSURE TO NON STEREOTYPED INDIVIDUALS

A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT FAVOURING EQUALITY

COOPERATION IN EFFORT

 

 

COTARD

 

 

CREUTFELDT-JAKOB

 

 

CRISP

WEIGHT PHOBIA AS AN ESCAPE FOR SEXUAL DEMANDS IN ADOLESCENT ANORECTICS

 

 

CROW

TYPE 1 SCHIZOPHRENIA

TYPE 2

 

CROWE

CONTRACT MARITAL THERAPY

USES THE GIVE TO GET PRINCIPAL

 

 

CULLEN

COINED THE TERM NEUROSIS

 

 

CUSHINGS

 

 

Capgras' syndrome

a person who is familiar to the patient is believed to have been replaced by a double

 

 

Central (syntactical) aphasia

difficult in arranging words in their correct sequence

 

 

Circumstantiality

slowed thinking incorporating unnecessary trivial details. Eventually the goal of the thought is reached

 

 

Clanging

speech in which words are chosen because of their sounds rather than their meanings. It includes rhyming and punning

 

 

Clouding of consciousness

the patient is drowsy and does not react completely to stimuli. there is disturbance of attention, concentration, memory, orientation and thinking.

 

 

Coenestopathic state

localiSed distortion of body awareness

Compulsions or compulsive rituals

repetitive, stereotyped, seemingly purposeful behaviour which is the motor component of obsessional thoughts e.g. checking and cleaning rituals

 

 

Concrete thinking

lack of abstract thinking, normal in childhood, and occurring in adults with organic brain disease and schizophrenia

 

 

Confabulation

gaps in memory are unconsciously filled with false memories

 

 

Cotard's syndrome

nihilistic delusional disorder in which, for example, patients believe that their money, friends or body parts do not exist

 

 

Countertransference

therapist's emotions and attitudes towards the patient

 

 

Culture - bound syndromes

specific psychiatric disorders occurring in non-Western populations

 

From MULTIPLE sources INCLUDING lecture notes.