Do you ever feel bamboozled by psychiatric jargon? MarkLRuffalo breaks down the meaning of some of psychiatry's weirdest words.
—has a language all its own. Sociologists believe that jargon develops in part to make communication short-cuts but also to clearly delineate between who is a member of the group and who is not. I have long been fascinated by psychiatry's jargon, orBelow I share seven of my favorite obscure terms from psychiatry. Most involve schizophrenia, my main area of clinical interest.
one. For instance, the patient may work as a janitor and at the same time feel he is the President of the United States. This has also been referred to as"double orientation" or as a"delusion of orientation."This term can refer to a hallucination which the patient knows to be such. Bleuler defined it as"a hallucination, the morbidness of which is recognized in spite of the vividness of the deceptive perception.
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