Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

Contributors in Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Dereistic thinking is an old descriptive term used to refer to thinking not in accordance with the facts of reality and experience and following illogical , idiosyncratic reasoning. This term is also ...

dhat

Health care; Psychiatry

In Dhat syndrome there is a complaint of premature ejaculation or impotence and a belief that semen is being passed in the urine.

doppelgänger

Health care; Psychiatry

The Doppelgänger is a phenomenon in which the person feels that his exact “double” is present alongside him every time and goes with him wherever he goes.

écho de la pensée

Health care; Psychiatry

In écho de la pensée, meaning "thought echo" in French, thoughts seem to be spoken aloud just after being produced. The patient hears the 'echo' of his thoughts in the form of a voice after he has ...

entgleisen

Health care; Psychiatry

Literally means jumping off the rails. Alternate term used for derailment of thought (a morbid form of loosening of association or asyndesis). A Schneiderian term by origin. In this form of thought ...

extracampine

Health care; Psychiatry

Extracampine hallucinations are hallucinations beyond the possible sensory field, e.g., 'seeing' somebody standing behind you is a visual extracampine hallucination experience.