Psychopathology

The following are disorders of the stream of thought

• Flight of ideas

• Circumstanciality

• Thought insertion

• Perseveration

True or False regarding Flight of Ideas

• Clang association is a variety of flight of ideas

• Circumstantiality is a variety of flight of ideas

• Speech is diverted by external stimuli

• Not seen in Schizophrenia

The following examples are correctly matched with the psychopathology

• I will lose all my wealth and my family will become destitute – Delusion of poverty

• I am targeted by my enemies for destruction – Nihilistic delusions

• I am the world’s biggest sinner – Delusion of guilt

• I am desperately in love with the president. I don’t know if he loves me – Delusion of love

True or False regarding obsessions and compulsions

• Content of the obsession may differ according to trends in the society

• Compulsions are obsessional motor acts

• In OCD the content of the obsession is always repugnant to the individual

• Patients often carry out there obsessional impulses

Indicate True of False regarding Hallucinations

• A person experiences hallucinations as occurring within the subjective space

• There are examples of hallucinations which are sensory distortions or sensory misinterpretation

• Hallucinations are under control of the person will

• Hallucinations can occur in normal people

Indicate True or False regarding the following statements

• Normal healthy individuals may be made to hallucinate through strong suggestions

• Pseudo hallucinations can be clear and vivid

• Extracampine hallucinations occur outside the limits of the sensory field

• Autoscopic hallucination is the experience of seeing oneself and knowing that it is oneself

Hallucinations can occur in the following physical illnesses

• Illness of sensory organs

• Tumours in the CNS

• Epilepsy

• Major organ failure

True or False regarding the following statements

• Affect is a person’s present emotional responsiveness

• Mood is a short term, transient change in the affect

• The affect is always congruent with the mood

• Blunting of affect can be seen in schizophrenia

Lability of mood can be seen in the following conditions

• Following strokes

• Frontal lobe pathology

• Mania

• Borderline personality disorder

True or False regarding Depersonalization

• There is sense of change to normal self

• There is sense of unreality

• Always an unpleasant experience

• Not seen in patients with psychotic illnesses