D
DA COSTA
SYNDROME
DASHIELL
THE
AUDIENCE EFFECT OF SOCIAL FACILITATION
DE-CLERAMBAULT
DESCRIBED
EROTOMANIA
DELAY AND
DENIKER
CONFIRMED
CPZ SEDATIVE ROLE IN 1952.
DIOGENES
DOWNS
DUETSCH AND
GERARD
2 TYPES
OF CONFORMISTS [SOCIAL INFLUENCE]
INFORMATIONAL
publically and privately
NORMATIVE
to avoid social rejection
DURKHEIM
EGOTISTIC-------------POOR
INTEGRATION/ISOLATION
ANOMIC-----------------POOR
REGULATION/DISORGANISATION
FATALISTIC------------EXCESSIVE
REGULATION EG PRISONS
ALTRUISTIC------------EXCESSIVE
INTEGRATION
Déjà
vu - illusion or recognition of a situation
Déjà
pensé - illusion of recognition of a new thought
Delirium
disorder
of consciousness in which the patient is bewildered, disoriented and restless. There may be associated fear and hallucinations
Delusions of
infidelity
(pathological
jealousy, delusional jealousy, Othello's syndrome) delusional belief that one's spouse or lover is being unfaithful.
Delusions of reference
the
behaviour of others or objects and event (e.g. television broadcasts) believed to refer to oneself in particular. When similar
thoughts are held with less than delusional intensity they are called ideas of reference.
Delusion
false
personal belief based on incorrect inference about external reality and firmly held despite evidence to the contrary. Not
explicable on the grounds of the patients cultural or social background.
Delusion (illusion) of doubles ( l'illusion de soises)
delusional
belief that a person known to an individual has been replaced by a double. It is seen in Capgras' syndrome.
Delusional perception
new
and delusional significance is attached to a familiar real perception without any logical reason.
Dementia
global
organic impairment of intellectual functioning without impairment of consciousness.
Denial
defense
mechanism in which the subject acts as if consciously unaware of a wish or reality.
Depersonalization
feeling
that one is unaltered or not real in some way.
Depressive retardation
lesser
form of psychomotor retardation which occurs in depression.
Derealization
one's
surrounding do not seem real.
Displacement
defense
mechanism in which thoughts an feelings about one person or object are transferred onto another.
Dissociative disorder
disorder
in which there is a disturbance in the normal integration or awareness of identity, consciousness, memory and
control of body movements.
Distractibility
attention
is frequently drawn to irrelevant external stimuli.
DSM-IV
fourth
edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association, Washington DC (1994).
Multiaxial classification with 5 axes.
Dysarthria
difficulty
articulating speech.
Dysphoria
Unpleasant
SAD mood.
From MULTIPLE sources INCLUDING lecture notes.