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A Mind Odyssey

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LAING

THE DIVIDED SELF BOOK ON ANTI PSYCHIATRY

 

 

LANGFELDT

TERMS ASSOC W HIM INCL;

REACTIVE SCHIZOPHRENIA

PROCESS SCHIZOPHRENIA

SCHIZOPHRENIFORM

 

 

LASEGUE AND FARLET

DESRIBED FOLIE A DEUX

 

 

LEFF AND VAUGHN

LIFE EVENTS

ALSO STUDIED EES FOLLOWING BROWNS STUDY 1972.

CRITICAL COMMENTS

HOSTILITY

OVERINVOLVEMENT

GREATER THAN 35 HRS

DEATH OF A SPOUSE

DIVORCE

SEPARATION

PRISON

BEREAVEMENT OF PRIMARY RELATIVE

PERSONAL ILLNESS

MARRIAGE

 

 

LEIBERMANN

PHOBIC AVOIBANCE GRIEF

DENIAL GRIEF

RECURRENT NIGHTMARES GRIEF

 

 

LEONARD

DISTIGUISHED SCHIZOPHRENIA FROM CYCLOID PSYCHOSIS WHICH HE DESCRIBED AS A GROUR OF NON AFFECTIVE PSYCHOSES OF GOOD OUTCOME

NAMED BPAD

NON SYSTEMATIC CYCLOID PSYCHOSIS

BIPOLAR CYCLOID PSYCHOSIS INCLUDED;

MOTILITY PSYCHOSIS

CONFUSION PSYCHOSIS

ANXIETY HAPPINESS PSYCHOSIS

 

 

LESCH NYHAN

 

 

LEWEN

LEADERSHIP STYLES;

AUTOCRATIC

DEMOCRATIC

LAISSEZ FAIRE

 

 

LEWY

 

 

LHERMITTES SIGN

WHEN PT FLEXES HIS HAED SUDDEN ELECTRIC SHOCK DOWN SPINE,MS. AND OTHER CERVICAL DISORDERS.

 

 

LIDDLES SYNDROME

PATTERN OF SYMPTOMS IN SCH.

PSYCHOMOTOR POVERTY SYNDROME.

DISORGANISED SYNDROME

REALITY DISTORTION SYNDROME.

 

 

LIDZ

SCHIZOPHRENIA AND THE FAMILY ENVIRONMENT

DESCRIBED SCHISM AND SKEW

 

 

LIKERT SCALE

MEASUREMENT OF ATTITUDE 5 PT SCALE AGREE OR DISAGREE W STATEMENT

 

 

LITTLE ALBERT [NOT FREUDS LITTLE HANS]

DESCRIBED BY WATSON AND RAYNER

INDUCTION OF A PHOBIA USING C. CONDITIONING-WHITE RAT W NOISE.

 

 

LORENZ

IMPRINTING SEEN IN GEESE

 

 

Labile affect

affect repeatedly and rapidly shifts from one extreme to another e.g. from despair to elation

 

Learning disability

( mental retardation ) - IQ 70 or less

 

Logoclonia

last syllable of the word is repeated

 

 

Logorrhoea ( volubility )

 

fluent and rambling speech using many words

 

From MULTIPLE sources INCLUDING lecture notes.