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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delusional belief that a person known to an individual has been replaced by a double.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.