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In psychology, logorrhea or logorrhoea (from Ancient Greek λόγος logos "word" and ῥέω rheo "to flow") is a communication disorder that causes excessive wordiness and repetitiveness, which can cause incoherency.
A cognitive distortion is a thought that causes a person to perceive reality inaccurately due to being exaggerated or irrational.Cognitive distortions are involved in the onset or perpetuation of psychopathological states, such as depression and anxiety.
Roger Gould is an American writer, psychiatrist and authority on adult psychological development. In his book Transformations , [ 1 ] Gould presents his view that adult psychological development consists of the "dismantling of the illusions of safety developed in childhood". [ 2 ]
We're sometimes fearful of things we don't understand. People often get their knowledge about the condition from movies or television shows. 12 Things Psychiatrists Wish You Knew About Schizophrenia
One handbook for psychiatric nurses, written by British psychiatrist Eric Cunningham Dax, instructs nurses to take their insulin patients out walking and occupy them with games and competitions, flower-picking and map-reading, etc. [10] Patients required continuous supervision as there was a danger of hypoglycemic aftershocks after the coma. [2]
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Psychiatrists rarely have the time or resources to check the validity of a person's claims leading some true beliefs to be erroneously classified as delusional. [33] This is known as the Martha Mitchell effect , named after the wife of US Attorney General John Mitchell and derived from the initial response to her allegations of illegal activity ...
Ironic process theory (IPT), also known as the Pink elephant paradox [1] or White bear phenomenon, suggests that when an individual intentionally tries to avoid thinking a certain thought or feeling a certain emotion, a paradoxical effect is produced: the attempted avoidance not only fails in its object but in fact causes the thought or emotion to occur more frequently and more intensely. [2]