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Psychiatry
The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders
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autistic thinking
Health care; Psychiatry
Autistic thinking is a term used to refer to thinking not in accordance with the facts of reality and emphasizes preoccupation with inner experience. See also Dereistic thinking.
autochthonous delusion
Health care; Psychiatry
Jaspers defined this as a delusion arising without apparent cause. For example, suddendly, without apparent cause, having the delusional belief that you are an alien.
autokabalesis
Health care; Psychiatry
An uncommonly used term used for suicide committed by jumping from a very high place.
automatic obedience
Health care; Psychiatry
Automatic obedience is an exaggerated co-operation with an examiner's request, as if the patient were an 'automaton' robotically obeying a command. It is usually a sign of catatonia.
automatism
Health care; Psychiatry
Automatisms are sequences of activity that occur without conscious control. They may be simple and repetitive (tic-like) or complex, and are usually natural-looking but purposeless; for example, ...
autoscopy
Health care; Psychiatry
Autoscopy is the reduplicative hallucination of "seeing one's own body at a distance" and the person sees it from the original place where he or she is sitting like a musician seeing himself sitting ...
belle Indifference
Health care; Psychiatry
A mental state characterized by a lack of concern and an indifference about a disability or symptom and is seen in hysteria or dissociative disorders.
