Psychiatric Interview, Symptomatology, and Diagnosis
What is delusion?
It is fixed, false belief that is unreal, idiosyncratic, and not accepted by other members of the same subcultural background.
What was the dominant intellectual perspective in psychiatry in the 19th century throughout Europe and the United States?
Biological psychiatry.
What is circumstantiality?
It is a patient’s discussion of unnecessary details and inappropriate thoughts before communicating a central idea. The patient should ultimately be able to reach the key point of the discussion.
Inability of the patient to reach the central point of a discussion even with sufficient time is called tangentiality.
What symptoms are associated with a dissociative phenomenon?
Derealization, depersonalization, dissociative amnesia, and fugue.
What is dissociation?
It is a splitting away of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors from conscious awareness.
What is the least clinically significant form of disorientation?
Disorientation to day or date. (It is so common that it happens in 60% of normal people.)
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