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Thinking
Section 4, Parts 1 & 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abstract thinking | Thinking characterized by the ability to grasp the essentials of a whole, to break a whole into its parts, and to discern common properties. To think symbolically |
| Autistic thinking | A type of mental activity in which focus is directed inward and the thinking is subjective (as opposed to objective). Comprised of inner thoughts and individual reality. |
| Autistic thinking | Daydreaming and fantasies are common elements. Seen in schizophrenia and autistic spectrum disorder. |
| Concrete thinking | Thinking characterized by actual things, events, and immediate experience rather than by abstractions. |
| Formal thought disorder | Disturbance in the form of thought rather than the content of thought; thinking characterized by loosened associations, neologisms, and illogical constructs; |
| Dementia | Mental disorder characterized by general impairment in intellectual functioning without clouding of consciousness; characterized my failing memory, difficulty with calculations, distractibility, alterations in mood and affect, |
| Dementia | impaired judgement and abstraction, reduced facility with language, and disturbance of orientation. Although irreversible when it is due to underlying progressive degenerative brain disease, may be reversible if the cause can be treated |
| Pseudodementia | Dementia-like disorder that can be reversed by appropriate treatment and is not caused by organic brain disease. Condition in which patients show exaggerated indifference to their surroundings in the absence of a mental disorder; |
| Pseudodementia | also occurs in depression and factitious disorders. |
| Illogical thinking | Thinking containing erroneous conclusions or internal contradictions; psychopathological only when it is marked and not caused by cultural values or intellectual deficit. |
| Magical thinking | Mental activity that is absorbed in fantasy, lacking any connection to the external world, reality or the normal rules of logic. Thoughts, words, or actions assume power. |
| Primary process thinking | In psychoanalysis, the mental activity directly related to the functions of the id and characteristic of unconsciousness mental processes; marked by primitive, pre-logical thinking... |
| Primary process thinking | ...and by the tendency to seek immediate gratification of instinctual demands. Includes thinking that is illogical or magical; normally found in dreams, abnormally in psychosis. |
| Psychosis | Mental disorder in which the thoughts, affective response, ability to recognize reality, and ability to communicate and relate to others are sufficiently impaired interfere grossly with the capacity to deal with reality; |
| Psychosis | the classical characteristics are impaired reality testing, hallucinations, delusions, and illusions |
| Mental disorder | Psychiatric illness or disease whose manifestations are primarily characterized by behavioral or psychological impairment of function, measured in terms of deviation from some normative concept; |
| Reality testing | Fundamental ego activity that consists of actions that tests and objectively evaluates the nature and limits of the environment; includes the ability to differentiate between the external world and the internal world... |
| Reality testing | ...and accurately to judge the relation between the self and the environment |
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