Psychiatric terms

Anhedonic

• Preoccupation with oneself

• An inability to enjoy anything, even things

  once enjoyed

• The sharing of a fantasy by two closely

  associated friends

• Habitually untalkative

Dysarthria

• A loss of connection with reality and logic, where

  thoughts become private and idiosyncratic (odd or pe-

  culiar)

• Difficulty producing speech

• A condition where one cannot identify or

  describe their own body parts. Individuals can dress

  themselves appropriately and use their body normally,

  but they cannot talk about their bodies

• Repeated and abrupt halt to speech as a result

  of losing one's train of thought

Hypermnesia

• The experience of being unfamiliar with a

  person or situation that is actually very familiar

• Awake, but without conscious awareness. In

  this vegetative state persons can open their eyelids

  occasionally and demonstrate sleep-wake cycles.

  They also completely lack cognitive function

• Repetitive ritualistic behaviour or mental

  activity

• Extreme power of memory. A capacity for

  immediate registration and precise recall of much

  more detail than is thought possible under ordinary

  circumstances

The repetition or echoing of verbal utterances

made by another person.

• Acrophobia

• Erotomania

• Global Aphasia

• Echolalia

Speech that conveys little information

because it is vague or baron

• Poverty of Content

• Paramnesia

• Circumstantiality

• Mutism

The sharing of a fantasy by two closely

associated friends.

• Jamais vu

• Word salad

• Folie à deux

• Prosopagnosia