Survey
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
PSYCHIATRY ROOT COMBINING FORM MEANING Psych Psych/o Soul or mind Phob -phobia fear Epilept Epilept/i/o Phren/i/o Phrenic/o Ment/o Phob-phobia Seizure Phren Ment Phob Diaphragm / mind / phrenic nerve Mind / chin Fear PSYCHIATRY is the branch of medicine dealing with the study, treatment and prevention of mental disorders. A psychiatrist is a doctor who specialises in psychiatry. A psychologist is a person qualified in psychology, usually not a doctor and not able to prescribe medications. A psychologist studies human behaviour. Anxiety disorders are unpleasant emotional states where people fear an imagined danger. Physical symptoms include racing pulse, sweating, trembling, weakness, nausea, fatigue and feelings of tensions and apprehension. Psychosis is a mental disorder where people find it difficult to distinguish fact from fantasy. Psychosomatic symptoms although real to the person experiencing them, are of emotional or imagined origin. Confabulation is when memories are fabricated. This is different from lying, as the person has no intention to deceive and believes their memories are true. Hallucinations are sensory experiences (seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting) of things that do not exist. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder comprising most major psychotic disorders and characterised by disturbances in thought, mood, sense of self and relationship to the external world and behaviour. Delusions are fixed beliefs in something that is obviously untrue, e.g. that the person is Napoleon. Illusions are misinterpretations of real sensory experience e.g. a mirage - seeing water in the desert that is not there but just the sun reflecting of the sand. Psychiatry Page 1 of 4 Panic disorders are episodes of extreme fear that, like anxiety disorders, can include physical symptoms such as a racing heart, sweating etc. Repression is where unpleasant thoughts, feelings and ideas are suppressed or removed from the consciousness. Involutional melancholia is a condition of depression in the elderly Conversion disorder is where stress and anxiety are converted into body symptoms Major depression is an extreme depression that lasts longer than normal Abbreviations Terms and Word Parts: Mania Madness Neur/ Nerve -path Disease Phren/o Mind, diaphragm Psych/o Mind Psychosomatic Relating to or involving both the mind (psyche) and the body (soma) Psychotropic Drugs with an effect on psychic function, behaviour and/or experience Schiz/ Division, split Somat/o Body Diagnostic terms: Amnesia (anteretrograde) Amnesia (retrograde) Bipolar disorder Manic depressive psychosis Paranoid Schizophrenia Neurosis Psychosis Psychiatry Inability to recall events following a trauma Inability to recall events preceding a trauma Affective disorder characterised by episodes of both mania and depression Severe mental illness with episodes of mania and depression (now known as bipolar) Mental state characterised by fixed and logically elaborated delusions of persecution, e.g. Schizophrenia Severe mental disorder characterised by a disintegration of thinking, contact with reality, hallucinations and delusions Patient recognises they are ill, contact with reality retained. E.g. anxiety disorder, phobias, depressive neurosis, obsessive-compulsive reaction. An abnormal pattern of though, action and feeling, patient doesn’t recognise they are ill. E.g. Manic depressive (bipolar effective disorder) and schizophrenia. Page 2 of 4 Conditions and Terms: Catatonia Cyclothymia Defence mechanism Deja vu Delirium Delusions Dementia Denial Dependence Depression Disorientation Dissociation Hallucination Identification Illusion Mania Mutism Obsession Paranoia Phobia Repression A phase of schizophrenia in which the patient is unresponsive with fixed posture and refusal to talk Alternating periods of elation and depression, excitement and apathy The means by which the psych protects itself A feeling of familiarity ("already seen") An acute organic reaction resulting in alteration of consciousness and attention A false belief that is firmly maintained Acquired, persistent or irreversible reduction in intelligent functioning that occurs after the brain has matured Reality factors denied in an effort to resolve emotional conflict (defence mechanism) Drugs, alcohol etc Lowering of mood Loss of normal relationship to one's surroundings, especially time, place and people Segregation from consciousness of certain components of mental processes, which then function independently as if they belonged to another person A sensory experience of an object not existing, i.e. Hearing voices etc. Unconscious imitation of another (defence mechanism) False interpretation of a sense Disorder of mood characterised by elation, increased Activity, feelings of specialness, rapid speech, decreased need for sleep Unwillingness or inability to speak Persistent thought that the person knows is unrealistic Mental state characterised by fixed and logically elaborated delusions of persecution, e.g. Schizophrenia Any morbid fear Removal of disturbing impulses, thoughts and feelings from conscious awareness (defence mechanism) Treatments: Antidepressant drugs Used to treat depressive syndromes Cognitive therapy An active, structured, time-limited and directive form of therapy based on the belief that the way a person perceives or structures the world determines his feeling and behaviour Psychiatry Page 3 of 4 Electroconvulsive therapy - ECT A form of therapy used in psychiatry where an electric impulse is applied to the brain to induce a seizure psychotherapy - psychological treatment for mental illness, behavioural, maladaptations or other problems assumed to be of an emotional nature. Activity 1 Write the meaning of: 1. Psychology __________________________________________________________ 2. Acrophobia __________________________________________________________ 3. Agoraphobia _________________________________________________________ 4. Epileptiform _________________________________________________________ 5. Psychopathy_________________________________________________________ Build words which mean: 6. Pertaining to the mind _________________________________________________ 7. Condition of fear of cancer ______________________________________________ 8. Pertaining to forming/causing epileptic fit___________________________________ 9. Abnormal condition of the mind __________________________________________ 10. Drug that acts on/has an affinity for the mind________________________________ Psychiatry Page 4 of 4