Affective abolition Maximum degree of loss of emotional response in which the subject appears completely flat, apathetic and indifferent to any stimulus of a happy, sad or threatening nature in their environment.

Also: atimia · extreme emotional flattening · total disaffection

Factitious child medical abuse Factitious disorder in which a caregiver deliberately and harmfully simulates, invents, or provokes symptoms of illness in a person in their care to obtain medical attention or examination.

Also: Münchhausen syndrome by proxy · induction of illness by proxy · factitious disorder by proxy

Acquired foreign accent Rare alteration in the melody, rhythm or cadence of speech that gives verbal speech a strange accent or intonation, perceived by listeners as being of a different nationality or region than that of the subject.

Also: dysprosody · foreign accent syndrome · alteration of vocal rhythm

Affection Dynamic and observable variation in the expression of emotions that the subject manifests in response to immediate stimuli, clinically evaluable through facial mimicry, tone of voice, gesticulation and body posture during the course of the clinical interview.

Also: affection · affective expression · affective reactivity

Neological affection Feeling of recent appearance in the emotional repertoire of the subject that he describes as qualitatively new, ineffable, extremely strange and very difficult to understand or describe verbally.

Also: neothymia · unpublished emotion · strange affection

Continuous motor agitation Pathological, incessant and disorganized increase in physical and motor activity, characterized by agitation that lacks a utilitarian purpose or a clear objective and that usually accompanies states of severe distress.

Also: hyperkinesis · hyperkinesia · continuous psychomotor agitation

Disorganized motor agitation State of extreme, chaotic physical hyperactivity, lacking goals and very difficult to control that can be accompanied by aggressive behavior or disorganized shouting.

Also: disorganized psychomotor agitation · catatonic motor storm · chaotic turmoil

Schematic body agnosia Loss of the ability to recognize, identify or feel specific parts of one's own body anatomy as one's own, frequently associated with dysfunctions in the parietal lobe.

Also: asomatognosia · loss of body schema · unilateral somatic inattention

Tactile object agnosia Inability to recognize the shape, size, texture, consistency or identity of a common three-dimensional object by touch alone, without the aid of vision.

Also: stereognosy · loss of stereognosia · stereoagnosia

Chronic voluntary social isolation Phenomenon characterized by voluntary and extreme confinement in one's own home or room for months or years, absolutely avoiding all face-to-face social and work interaction.

Also: hikikomori · extreme domestic confinement · voluntary social retirement

Alogia Severe impoverishment of thought and cognition that is clinically manifested by markedly decreased spontaneous speech, brief or content-less verbal responses, and a significant reduction in speech fluency.

Also: poverty of speech · cognitive muteness · empty speech

Impairment of verbal fluency Speech rhythm disorder characterized by repeated interruptions of the verbal flow, prolongation of sounds, repetition of syllables or muscle blocks at the beginning of the enunciation of words.

Also: dysphemia · stuttering · verbal spasmophemia

Motor hallucination Illusory sensation of bodily displacement or passive movement in which the subject experiences that his extremities move, that his body is lifted up in suspense or that he is pushed with force, despite remaining motionless.

Also: kinesthetic hallucination · perception of unreal body movement

Psychic hallucination False perception that lacks the objective sensory properties of a true hallucination, being experienced in the mental or internal space of the subject without a spatial projection in the outside world.

Also: pseudohallucination · internal hallucinatory representation · hallucinatory mental image

Visceral hallucination False sensory perception located inside the body, in which the subject refers with absolute certainty to the extreme anatomical or functional alteration of their internal organs, such as perceiving that their heart has petrified or that their intestines are empty.

Also: kinesthetic hallucination · pathological internal somatic perception

Engine mannerism Habitual gestures, postures or movements that, despite having a real and utilitarian purpose, are executed in an extremely extravagant, affected, overloaded or artificial way.

Also: mannerism · gestural affectation · mannered gesticulation

Psychotic ambithymia Simultaneous and highly intense coexistence of opposite and contradictory feelings, such as love and hate, directed towards the same person or situation in a psychotic context.

Also: serious emotional ambivalence · psychotic emotional duality · delusional ambithymia

Consolidation amnesia Selective defect in memory function characterized by the absolute inability to register, store and fix new long-term memories after the appearance of the damage or disorder, determining a pattern of continuous forgetting.

Also: fixation amnesia · functional anterograde memory deficit · continuous anterograde forgetting

Evocation amnesia Difficulty or pathological inability to access, evoke and bring to consciousness memories, experiences or knowledge that had already been correctly stored and consolidated in the subject's memory previously.

Also: recovery amnesia · amnesic evocation deficit · functional retrograde forgetting

Affective buffering Global and persistent decrease in the ability to experience pleasure, interest or emotional reactions to everyday situations, without reaching the total loss of emotional response.

Also: functional anhedonia · moderate emotional flattening · dampening of the affective response

Emotional illiteracy Cognitive and psychological inability to identify, label, differentiate and verbalize one's own emotions and feelings, as well as to understand the emotional expressions of others.

Also: alexithymia · affective muteness · emotional blindness

Severe affective anesthesia Subjective and extremely painful sensation of inability to experience any type of feeling, emotion, affection or empathy towards loved ones or the environment, described by the subject as a paralysis of their soul.

Also: emotional emptiness · painful insensitivity · severe emotional anesthesia · affective anesthesia · extreme emotional emptiness · psychotic painful insensitivity

Uninhibited attachment Pattern of childhood behavior characterized by an active approach, excessive familiarity and a total lack of reserve in interaction with unknown adults, contravening normal safety guidelines.

Also: disinhibited social relationship disorder · childhood social disinhibition · uninhibited social attachment

Inhibited attachment Persistent pattern of socially inhibited and emotionally withdrawn behavior towards adult caregivers, characterized by an absence of seeking comfort in situations of distress, caused by negligence or severe abuse.

Also: reactive attachment disorder · inhibited infantile attachment · childhood attachment disorder

Attentional aprosexia Complete abolition of attention of psychic origin in which the subject appears totally incapable of responding to any requirement or stimulus from his or her immediate environment.

Also: absolute psychogenic inattention · clinical aprosexia · psychogenic attention coma

Pathological hair pulling Irresistible, repetitive and recurrent urge to pull out one's own hair or body hair in different areas, producing perceptible hair loss and clinically significant distress.

Also: trichotillomania · clinical trichotillomania · voluntary traction alopecia

Enrapture Maximum degree of emotional exaltation and mystical character in which the subject experiences a perceptual disconnection from the environment along with immense happiness, inner peace and spiritual communion.

Also: ecstasy · emotional transportation · psychopathological ecstasy

Asyndesis Pathological alteration of intellectual functions in which concepts that belong to totally different logical categories are chaotically juxtaposed, making it impossible to form a coherent rational synthesis or conclusion.

Also: lack of mental synthesis · inconnection of concepts

Diverted attention Abnormal deviation of attention in which the subject focuses excessively on irrelevant, incidental or collateral stimuli while systematically ignoring priority stimuli.

Also: paraprosexy · abnormal targeting · psychopathological attentional distraction

Transient sleep atonia Transitory and involuntary inability to perform any voluntary movement during the physiological transition between sleep and wakefulness, often accompanied by extreme distress.

Also: sleep paralysis · wake-up motor block · sleep transition immobility · transient sleep paralysis

Clinical self-recognition Mental capacity of the patient to realistically identify that he suffers from a psychiatric disorder, objectively discriminate his symptoms from external reality and accept the need for medical treatment.

Also: clinical insight · mental illness awareness · clinical self-awareness

Multiple autoscopy Extremely unusual visual experience in which the individual perceives the simultaneous presence of several replicas or identical clones of his own body distributed in different locations in his immediate spatial environment.

Also: polyautoscopy · multiple duplication of the self · delirious visual clones

Severe sleep bruxism Involuntary and destructive habit of clenching or grinding the teeth in a rhythmic and spasmodic manner during the course of sleep, which can cause temporomandibular damage and coronary wear.

Also: sleep teeth burnishing · severe teeth grinding · destructive nocturnal bruxism

Comprehensive visual blindness Inability to visually perceive, interpret or process more than one object, element or detail simultaneously, preventing the global capture of a complex visual scene.

Also: simultagnosia · visual integrative agnosia · visual synthesis deficit

Domestic garbage collection Severe behavioral disorder characterized by total personal abandonment, voluntary social isolation, extreme dirt in the home and the massive accumulation of garbage and useless objects.

Also: Diogenes syndrome · extreme senile self-neglect · abandonment of Diogenes

Amnesiac confabulation Undeliberate production of false, distorted or fantastic stories that the subject uses unconsciously to fill in memory gaps, firmly believing in the veracity of their statements.

Also: fabulation · compensatory invention · involuntary memory falsification

Fanatic conviction Strongly rooted and passionately defended belief that is situated on the border between normal and delusional ideas, dominating the subject's personality and resisting logical criticism.

Also: overrated idea · extreme belief bias · extreme ideological conviction

Phonic coprolalia Recurrent, involuntary and uncontrollable emission of obscene, rude words, insults or socially proscribed expressions, common in neuropsychiatric movement disorders or the development of phonic tics.

Also: involuntary obscene speech · coprolaly · obscene vocalization

Coprokinesis Involuntary, spasmodic and repetitive performance of gestures or gestures of an obscene, vulgar or socially unacceptable nature, without a voluntary communicative purpose on the part of the subject.

Also: involuntary obscene gestures · copropraxy

Cataplegic crisis Sudden and involuntary loss of skeletal muscle tone caused by intense emotions, such as laughter, surprise or anger, which occurs without loss of consciousness of the individual.

Also: cataplexy · cataplexy · emotional loss of muscle tone

Transient nervous breakdown Reaction of distress and acute emotional lack of control of cultural origin that includes uncontrollable crying, screaming, generalized tremors, verbal aggression and temporary psychomotor agitation in the face of a stressful event.

Also: nervous breakdown · acute cultural distress · hysterical cultural crisis

Reality criterion Higher cognitive capacity that allows an individual to correctly and adaptively distinguish between their internal subjective experiences and the objective stimuli of the external world.

Also: reality judgment · evaluation of the real environment · ability to discern reality

Amnestic wandering Episode of dissociative amnesia in which the subject makes a sudden, unexpected and apparently organized trip away from home, temporarily losing the memory of his previous personal identity.

Also: dissociative fugue · hysterical identity flight · amnesic dissociative escape

Non-REM night wandering Sleep disorder that consists of performing complex motor behaviors, such as getting out of bed and walking, during deep non-REM sleep phases, maintaining low awareness of the environment.

Also: sleepwalking · dream walk · motor automatism of deep sleep

Functional attention deficit Quantitative reduction in attention span that significantly hinders fixation, concentration, distribution or maintenance of attentional focus on a specific task or stimulus.

Also: hypoprosexy · selective inattention · attentional lability

Chronic jealousy delirium Delusional and unfounded belief that the romantic partner is committing infidelity, resistant to all logical evidence to the contrary, which completely conditions the dynamics of the relationship and the behavior of the subject.

Also: celotype · delirium of jealousy · pathological delusional jealousy

Delirium of mystical control Conviction that one's bodily movements, thoughts, impulses or feelings are being controlled by an external mystical, divine or demonic force.

Also: idea of mystical control · mystical delusional automatism · delusional possession of the will

Chronic delusions of grandeur Delusional and persistent conviction of possessing social status, power, wealth, knowledge or exceptional, mystical or divine abilities that completely deviate from the biographical reality of the subject.

Also: active delusional megalomania · delusion of grandiosity

Delirium of nihilistic immortality Delirium of denial of extreme severity in which the patient affirms that his internal organs are rotten, that he lacks blood or that he has already physically died, sometimes associating it with a sentence to live eternally in nothingness.

Also: Cotard syndrome · Cotard's delusion of denial · delirious nihilism of Cotard

Delirium of chronic parasitosis Delusional and persistent conviction that one's own body is infested by small parasites, insects or worms that crawl under the skin, causing compulsive and destructive skin scratching.

Also: Ekbom syndrome · body infestation hallucination · Ekbom's delusional parasitosis

Delirium of passivity Belief that impulses, voluntary movements, behavioral acts, thoughts or feelings do not belong to the subject, but are managed or controlled directly by an external will or force foreign to him.

Also: control idea · passive delusional automatism · alienation of will

Delirium of chronic harm Delusional and deeply rooted conviction by which the subject believes that people around him or her are conspiring, monitoring or carrying out deliberate actions to cause economic or moral damage or harm.

Also: delusion of harm · chronic delusional impairment · suspicion of persistent harm

Primary delirium of persecution Delusional idea in which the subject believes himself to be the victim of a plot, persecution, espionage or attempted physical or moral harm by an organization, person or mystical force.

Also: delusion of pursuit · primary delusional persecution · paranoia of persecution

Delirium of physical transformation Delusional conviction in which the subject believes that people around him constantly change their physical appearance or adopt the identity of other known people to persecute or monitor him.

Also: Fregoli syndrome · delirium of the multiple imposter · Delusional Fregoli

Querulant delirium Delusional variant characterized by obsessive worry and a tireless desire to initiate legal litigation or formal claims for insignificant or non-existent grievances, injustices or damages.

Also: querulance · delusional lawsuitmania · delusional pathological litigation

Delusion of external influence Delusional belief that one's own mental processes or physical actions are being directly influenced by radiation, telepathy, technologies or wills of third parties.

Also: delirium of influence · delusional influence

Biological melancholic depression Affective disorder of notable severity that originates independently of environmental factors or external triggers, characterized by profound vegetative symptoms and a preferably neurobiological etiology.

Also: endogenous depression · vital depressive disorder · endogenous melancholy

Psychogenic depression Depressive disorder whose onset, course and persistence are closely linked and conditioned by the occurrence of a stressful life event, an emotional trauma or an identifiable environmental conflict.

Also: reactive depression · acute depressive reaction · depression due to environmental stress

Somatized depression Affective disorder in which the psychological symptoms of depression, such as sadness or emptiness, remain hidden or are expressed mainly through a procession of physical complaints, pain and somatic dysfunctions.

Also: masked depression · somatic depressive equivalent · somatic presentation depression

Disappropriation of the bodily member Delusional conviction in which the patient absolutely rejects the ownership of one of his bodily extremities, stating with complete certainty that it belongs to another person or that it has been implanted.

Also: somatoparacrenia · delirium of somatic alienation · alienation of the bodily member

Derailment Gradual or abrupt deviation from the course of thought in which the subject continually jumps from one idea to another without there being a clear or understandable logical relationship between them, fragmenting the thematic continuity of the discourse.

Also: loss of associations · loose associative thinking · thought derailment

Emotional lack of control Pathological inability to contain, regulate or modulate the intensity of emotional manifestations, giving rise to explosions of laughter, crying or anger that are extremely disproportionate to the triggering stimulus.

Also: affective incontinence · emotional spillover · affective overflow

Disorganization of movement Anomalous execution of voluntary movements that are interrupted, disorganized or replaced by grimaces, parasitic gestures or inappropriate gestures that alter motor fluidity.

Also: parkinesia · parasitic gestures · motor disorganization

Allopsychic disorientation Clinical inability of the subject to accurately identify the current date, day of the week, month or current year, as well as the physical place, institution or city in which he or she is located at that moment.

Also: space-time disorientation · situational disorientation · loss of temporal-spatial coordinates

Autopsychic disorientation Loss of the ability to correctly remember and evoke one's own personal identity, including the subject's full name, date of birth, profession or the fundamental data of their personal biography.

Also: identity disorientation · identity amnesia · loss of biographical self-awareness

Disorientation of the body scheme Inability of the subject to locate, point out or name the different parts of his own body or the body of the examiner at his request.

Also: autotopagnosia · somatic localization agnosia · body disorientation

Dissociative depersonalization Alteration of self-consciousness in which the individual experiences himself, his body or his mental processes as strange, alien, unreal or distant.

Also: depersonalization · depersonalization disorder · strangeness of the self

Environmental derealization Alteration of self-awareness in which the external environment, objects or familiar people are perceived as unreal, artificial, two-dimensional, foggy or lifeless.

Also: derealization · strangeness of the environment · dissociative derealization

Neat detailing Course of thought characterized by an inability to prioritize ideas, which induces the subject to incorporate a multitude of trivial details, anecdotes and detours before being able to conclude his message.

Also: detailed thinking · discursive prolixity

Cognitive impairment due to thiamine Severe and persistent amnesic disorder of deficiency origin characterized by marked anterograde amnesia, retrograde amnesia and a systematic tendency to confabulation.

Also: Korsakoff's confabulatory psychosis

Intellectual disability Significant limitation in both intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior, manifested in conceptual, social and practical skills with onset before the age of eighteen.

Also: mental retardation · disorder of intellectual development · intellectual development deficit

Affective discordance Dissociation or lack of logical and qualitative agreement between the external emotional expression of the individual and the content of his thoughts, the verbal discourse he emits or the nature of the situation in which he finds himself.

Also: inappropriate affection · parathymia · psychotic affective discordance

Redundant speech Emission of a verbal discourse that, despite maintaining a correct syntactic structure and an adequate volume of words, transmits an insignificant amount of information due to the reiteration of empty ideas or collateral explanations.

Also: poverty of the content of thought · empty speech · sterile speech

Orgasmic dysfunction Persistent or recurrent absence or delay of orgasm after a phase of normal sexual excitement and adequate stimulation, which generates clinically significant discomfort in the subject.

Also: anorgasmia · psychogenic anorgasmia · primary orgasmic disorder

Dysmegalopsia Distortion of visual perception in which objects, lines or shapes in the environment appear deformed, asymmetrical, wavy or with alterations in their proportions and real spatial distances.

Also: metamorphopsia · visual distortion of shapes · perceptual alteration of symmetry

Emotional duality Simultaneous coexistence of opposite and contradictory feelings, such as extreme affection and rejection, directed towards the same person, object, idea or life situation.

Also: ambithymia · affective ambivalence · psychotic mixed feelings

Chronic complicated grief Reaction of grief and persistent pain of disabling intensity that lasts far beyond accepted social and cultural norms after the death of a loved one.

Also: prolonged duel · persistent pathological grief · prolonged grief disorder

Consciousness Duplication Highly complex perceptual experience in which the subject perceives his external body double, but experiences a fluctuation or division of his own consciousness, which seems to inhabit both bodies simultaneously.

Also: heautoscopy · autoscopic duplication · bilocated consciousness

Duplication of places Alteration of memory and judgment characterized by the firm conviction that a geographical space, a building or a habitual room has been exactly duplicated, so that the subject believes that he or she is in an identical but different copy of the original.

Also: duplicative paramnesia · lusoid delocalization · location paramnesia

Ecolalia Semi-involuntary, immediate or delayed repetition of words, phrases or fragments of speeches delivered by the interlocutor, carried out in a monotonous, automatic manner and lacking real communicative intention.

Also: echo of words · involuntary verbal imitation · ecophrasia

Echopraxia Automatic, immediate and involuntary repetition or imitation of the movements, gestures, postures or body expressions carried out by the examiner or any other person located in the subject's visual field.

Also: echo of gestures · involuntary motor imitation · ecokinesis

Male empathic pregnancy Psychopathological and somatoform phenomenon in which the partner of a pregnant woman empathically experiences physical symptoms typical of pregnancy, such as nausea, changes in appetite and abdominal pain.

Also: couvade · couvade syndrome · empathetic male pregnancy

Affective dullness Pathological reduction of the intensity and reactivity of emotional expression to environmental stimuli, characterized by a subjective experience of emotional distancing and inability to tune in to the feelings of others.

Also: dull affect · expressive hypoaffectiveness · mild emotional anesthesia

Dumbing of consciousness Slight decrease in the level of alertness and wakefulness, characterized by a generalized slowness in psychic functions, concentration difficulties, slight temporal disorientation and a sustained effort to process information from the environment.

Also: obnubilation · mild mental lethargy · clouding of consciousness

Acute confusional encephalopathy Acute neuropsychiatric condition secondary to a severe thiamine deficiency that presents with mental confusion, gait alterations, and ocular mobility dysfunction.

Also: thiamine deficiency delirium

Fire of Wrath Disease Korean cultural syndrome of extreme somatization attributed to the chronic suppression of anger and the storage of intense, painful and intolerable emotions that manifest as a burning sensation in the chest.

Also: hwa-byung · somatization of anger · pathological fire of anger

Erotomania Delusional conviction by which the subject is firmly convinced that another person, generally of a much higher social or economic position, is deeply in love with him and sends him secret signals of affection.

Also: Clérambault's delirium · delirious platonic love · erotic delirium of Clérambault

Illusory error Deformation or incorrect interpretation of a real physical or sensory stimulus that is present in the subject's immediate environment, usually influenced by an intense emotional state or by darkness.

Also: illusion · distorted perception

Psychogenic vaginal spasm Involuntary muscle spasm of the muscles of the external third of the vagina that persistently and painfully interferes with penetration or intercourse, in the absence of local pathology.

Also: vaginal penetration dysfunction · psychogenic vaginismus

Schizophasia Syntactic and semantic disorganization of language of an extreme nature in which the speech lacks any logical connection between the words, so that the message is totally incomprehensible despite maintaining adequate formal intonation.

Also: disorganized word salad · jargaphasia · extreme incoherent speech

Possession status Identity awareness disorder in which the individual's habitual personality is temporarily replaced by a new identity of a mystical, divine, demonic or alien type.

Also: dissociative possession · dissociative identity theft · possession trance

Trance state Temporary alteration of the state of consciousness characterized by a loss of perception of the environment and an extreme and exclusive focus on stimuli or experiences of an internal nature.

Also: dissociative trance · dissociative rapture · functional trance

Narrowing of consciousness Transitory alteration with a sudden onset in which psychic activity is limited to a reduced number of ideas and affects, which allows the subject to carry out automatic and coordinated behaviors while remaining disconnected from the global reality of the environment.

Also: twilight state · twilight automatism · restriction of the field of consciousness

Perceptual structuring Psychological and involuntary tendency of the human mind to organize vague, amorphous and inorganic sensory stimuli to give them a defined, structured and recognizable form, such as discovering faces or figures of animals in the clouds.

Also: pareidolia · illusion of faces · intuitive visual setup

Acute psychogenic stupor State of complete physical and psychomotor immobility that occurs immediately after experiencing psychological trauma, catastrophic news or extreme terror.

Also: reactive stupor · paralysis due to terror · psychogenic stupor

Social avoidance for fear of offending Social anxiety disorder characteristic of the Eastern cultural environment in which the subject experiences extreme panic that their presence, body odor, gaze or gestures will be offensive, annoying or embarrassing to others.

Also: taijin kyofusho · social phobia of offense · Japanese social phobia

Auditory strangeness Sudden feeling of alienation and absolute novelty when faced with a sound, a melody, a language or a voice that are actually perfectly known and habitual to the subject.

Also: you never understand · never heard · auditory defamiliarization

Strangeness of the everyday Alteration of memory and recognition in which a situation, a familiar environment or a very familiar and loved person is suddenly experienced by the subject as something completely new, strange, foreign or never seen.

Also: jamais vu · never seen · pathological defamiliarization

Facilitation of movement Psychomotor attitude of catatonic origin in which the subject allows the examiner to move his body or limbs to any position, despite having been expressly instructed to offer resistance.

Also: mitmachen · passive bodily submission · catatonic motor facilitation

False inattention External appearance of inattention, self-absorption or distraction that actually hides a state of heightened alertness and intense internal attentional focus or attention directed at a stimulus hidden from the examiner.

Also: pseudoprosexia · attentional simulation · apparent inattention

Formication False sensory perception characterized by the tactile sensation of insects, worms or small animals that move, crawl or dig incessantly on the surface of the skin or just below it.

Also: animal itch hallucination · delirium of tactile parasitosis · pathological forme

Psychogenic identity flight Memory disorder characterized by a sudden and unexpected trip away from one's usual residence, accompanied by the complete loss of memories of one's personal identity.

Also: hysterical escape · amnesiac identity escape

Glossolalia Continuous emission of a sequence of intelligible sounds structured similarly to a real language but lacking a comprehensible syntactic or semantic meaning, often observed in dissociative states or religious trances.

Also: mystical jargon · speaks in tongues · mystical incomprehensible language

Hurried speech Alteration in the rhythm of speech characterized by an extremely fast, rushed and incessant verbal emission, which significantly hinders the clarity of articulation and the understanding of the message.

Also: tachyphemia · accelerated verbiage · functional tachyphemia

Slowed speech Pathological and systematic slowing of the speed of speech, manifested by prolonged pauses between words or phrases and slow, monotonous articulation.

Also: bradyphemia · verbal slowness · slowing down of verbal flow

Sleep talking Emission of articulated sounds, isolated words or complete verbal discourses involuntarily during the course of sleep, without the subject being aware of the phenomenon.

Also: somniloquy · involuntary night speech · sleep vocalization

Hyperconcentration Excessive, rigid and almost exclusive focusing of attention on a single stimulus, thought, idea or task, with complete exclusion of information from the rest of the environment.

Also: hyperprosexia · attentional rigidity · selective attentional obsession

Selective hyperprosexia Excessive, persistent and rigid attentional focus on an internal stimulus, delusional idea or delusional concern, preventing the subject from adequately attending to external stimuli.

Also: selective hyperconcentration · psychopathological attentional rigidity · delusional hyperprosexia

Motivational hypobulia Pathological reduction of the voluntary drive and initiative to initiate or complete goal-directed activities, manifested by prolonged inactivity and lack of motivation.

Also: hypobulia · decrease in initiative · motivational inertia

Functional hyporosexy Reduced ability to concentrate and maintain attention due to a state of mental fatigue, severe anxiety or interference from ruminative thoughts.

Also: concentration lability · reactive hyporosexy

Conversion hysteria Presence of symptoms or deficits that affect voluntary motor or sensory functions, which suggest a neurological disease but cannot be explained by an objective medical pathology.

Also: conversion disorder · somatoform conversion · psychogenic functional neurological deficit

Arctic hysteria Cultural syndrome characterized by acute and transient episodes of uncontrolled psychomotor agitation, followed by blind imitation of behavior, crying and a subsequent deep stupor with amnesia of the event.

Also: pibloktoq · outbreak of ice agitation · eskimo pibloktoq

Humor Basal, internal, subjective and long-lasting emotional state that constantly colors the self-perception, thinking, behavior and relationship of the subject with their usual environment.

Also: mood · affective tone · basal mood

Expansive humor Uninhibited expression of one's own emotions and projects, characterized by a systematic overvaluation of one's own importance, extreme talkativeness, and a tendency toward grandiosity in social interaction.

Also: expansiveness · affective disinhibition · great humor

Poikilotic humor Extreme and capricious variability of mood, characterized by constant oscillations that do not respond to a predictable cyclicity or specific environmental events.

Also: poikilothymia · constant emotional instability · swinging humor

Illusion of previous hearing Distortion of auditory recognition in which a sound, a melody or a speech heard for the first time is perceived by the individual with the certainty of having heard it exactly at a moment in the past.

Also: let me understand · already heard · illusory auditory familiarity

Illusion of previous experience Alteration of recognition in which the subject finds himself faced with a completely new situation but experiences the absolute conviction of having lived, felt and experienced it in detail in his past.

Also: dejà vécu · already lived · extreme familiarity paramnesia

Illusion of sosias Delusional conviction that a very close or familiar person in the subject's immediate environment has been replaced by an imposter or identical double who acts maliciously.

Also: Capgras syndrome · delirium of the double imposter · Delirious Capgras

Image of numbness Sensory phenomenon of great liveliness, of an auditory, visual or tactile nature, which is experienced involuntarily exclusively during the physiological transition between the state of wakefulness and deep sleep.

Also: hypnagogic image · drowsiness hallucination · hypnagogic hallucination

Image of awakening Perceptual and involuntary phenomenon, frequently of a visual or auditory nature, that is experienced with great realism exclusively in the physiological transition out of sleep, right at the moment of waking up.

Also: hypnopompic image · awakening hallucination · hypnopompic hallucination

Imposition of thought Delusional conviction that strange thoughts or thoughts foreign to the subject's own personality have been introduced directly into his or her brain through telepathic, technological or mystical mechanisms controlled by third parties.

Also: insertion of thought · delusional ideational intrusion · imposed thought

Absolute inattention Maximum degree of abolition or complete loss of the capacity for attention, both voluntarily and involuntarily, preventing any fixation of consciousness on the environment.

Also: aprosexia · functional attention coma · extreme attention deficit

Psychogenic fecal incontinence Repeated and involuntary or intentional evacuation of feces in inappropriate places by a child over four years of age, in the absence of an organic pathology that justifies it.

Also: encopresis · functional encopresis · psychogenic inappropriate defecation

Affective indifference Constitutional or acquired inability to emotionally tune in to the suffering, joy or needs of others, manifested by a total absence of empathy or warmth in interpersonal relationships.

Also: emotional coldness · interpersonal insensitivity · social apathy

Rapid affective instability Rapid, excessive and abrupt fluctuation in the subject's emotional expression, without sufficient external stimuli to justify it logically.

Also: affective lability · rapid emotional oscillation · excessive affective reactivity

Affective inflexibility Loss of the capacity for emotional adaptation in which the subject remains fixed in a particular mood, proving unable to modulate his or her affective response to significant variations in environmental circumstances.

Also: emotional fixity · persistence of the affective tone · functional affective rigidity

Mental cognitive inflexibility Difficulty or inability to change mental register, alternate between different tasks or modify a belief or behavior when reality shows that it is erroneous or ineffective.

Also: cognitive mental rigidity · cognitive fixity · cognitive inflexibility

Psychogenic immobility State of absolute motor and behavioral inhibition in which the individual remains completely immobile, mute and indifferent to environmental stimuli, preserving consciousness and muscle tone but without responding to any external solicitation.

Also: stupor · functional akinetic mutism · functional psychomotor paralysis

Nocturnal leg restlessness Disorder characterized by an urgent and irresistible need to move the lower extremities, accompanied by uncomfortable sensations that are exacerbated at rest and temporarily relieved with movement.

Also: restless legs syndrome · Willis-Ekbom syndrome · nocturnal akathisia of extremities

Insight Cognitive capacity of a patient to recognize the existence of a mental disorder in itself, objectively assess the nature and severity of its symptoms, and understand the need to adhere to medical and psychological treatment.

Also: introspection · diagnostic self-awareness · awareness of illness

Thought Interception Sudden, involuntary and complete interruption of the flow of ideas in the middle of a speech that leaves the subject plunged into a sudden silence during which he is unable to remember what he was saying or restart the conversation.

Also: thought block · sudden cognitive obstruction · interruption of the ideational flow

Primary delusional interpretation Phenomenon in which a real and correct sensory perception is interpreted immediately and without any logical explanation as a revelation loaded with a delusional and self-referential meaning of high importance.

Also: delusional perception · primary perceptual revelation

Delusional intuition Idea that bursts suddenly and unjustifiably into the subject's consciousness with the character of absolute certainty and of delusional origin, without any previous perception or experience of the environment that explains it.

Also: delirious occurrence · delirious intuitive occurrence

Manic joy State of pathological and unfounded joy characterized by overflowing optimism, intense self-esteem, disorganized hyperactivity and a subjective feeling of triumph or physical well-being.

Also: elation · exaltation of humor · extreme pathological euphoria

Pathological gambling Behavioral disorder characterized by a persistent, progressive and maladaptive inability to resist the impulse to participate in games of chance and betting, affecting the socio-family life of the subject.

Also: pathological gambling · gambling addiction · gambling addiction

Delusional mind reading Pathological and logic-resistant conviction that people in the immediate environment, or in general, have the ability to know and accurately read the subject's thoughts without the need for any verbal communication.

Also: passive delusional telepathy · thought reading by third parties

Schizophasic language Verbal discourse characterized by such extreme syntactic, semantic and grammatical disorganization that it is completely incomprehensible to the interlocutor, resembling a word salad.

Also: psychotic jargaphasia · schizophrenic incoherent language

Logoclony Spasmodic, rhythmic and involuntary repetition of the last syllable of a word that the subject has just pronounced, interrupting the fluidity of speech and resembling a speech motor clone.

Also: clone of the word · terminal stuttering · verbal clone

Behavioral gambling disorder Maladaptive and persistent pattern of gambling that seriously compromises the economy, socio-familial relationships and emotional stability of the individual.

Also: pathological behavioral gambling · behavioral gambling addiction · gambling disorder

Hallucinatory macropsia Visual hallucination in which the elements of the environment are perceived as having a giant size and disproportionate dimensions that massively exceed the physical reality of the objects.

Also: Gulliverian hallucination · perception of giants · delirious visual enlargement

Hysterical march Inability of psychogenic origin to maintain standing or to walk normally, manifested by extravagant movements and imminent falls that are avoided at the last moment, despite maintaining biological strength and coordination.

Also: astasia-abasia · altered psychogenic standing · functional gait instability

Induced passive gait Psychomotor phenomenon in which the subject accompanies and follows in an exaggerated manner the slightest push, pressure or physical direction exerted on his or her body by the examiner, moving in the direction of the stimulus.

Also: mitgehen · body motor tracking · passive corporal obedience

Megalomania Pathological and disproportionate conviction of possessing exceptional qualities, unlimited wealth, absolute power, infinite knowledge or divine status, which completely conditions the subject's behavior independently of reality.

Also: delirious grandeur · delusion of grandeur · excessive self-esteem

Pathological lie Systematic, persistent and maladaptive tendency to deliberately invent lies, imaginary stories or complex fantasies, usually aimed at attracting attention or gaining prestige.

Also: mythomania · fantastic pseudology · mythomaniacal invention

Merycism Eating disorder characterized by the repeated regurgitation of food from the stomach to the mouth voluntarily or involuntarily to be chewed, swallowed again or spit out, without gastrointestinal pathology.

Also: rumination · rumination disorder · non-organic voluntary regurgitation

Hallucinatory micropsy Visual hallucination in which the subject perceives people, animals or objects with an extraordinarily reduced size in relation to their real dimensions, often associated with an atmosphere of strangeness or fascination.

Also: lilliputian hallucination · dwarf perception · delirious visual diminution

Fabulatory mythomania Pathological tendency to lie systematically and to create complex fantasy stories with which the subject seeks to raise his or her self-esteem or obtain social approval.

Also: active fantastic pseudology · clinical mythomania · fabulatory pathological lie

Expressive monotony Absence or serious alteration of intonation, rhythm, accent and natural melodic modulation during the emission of verbal speech, which gives the voice a flat and mechanical character.

Also: aprosody · loss of emotional vocal tone · vocal expressive flattening

Repeated nail biting Compulsive, persistent and irresistible habit of biting, gnawing or eating one's own fingernails or the surrounding skin, which can cause nail deformity and local infections.

Also: onychophagy · compulsive nail biting · self-inflicted nail wear

Involuntary associated movement Involuntary appearance of movements, muscle contractions or gestures in one part of the body when actively carrying out a voluntary movement in another limb or body area.

Also: syncinesis · motor co-contraction · involuntary associated reflex

Coordinated repetitive movement Repeated, rhythmic, persistent and coordinated repetition of a body movement or gesture that lacks any utilitarian purpose, common in developmental disorders or psychotic conditions.

Also: motor stereotypy · useless motor automation · gestural stereotypy

Musitation Action of murmuring or whispering constantly and in a very low voice, gesturing slightly with the lips but without actually articulating sounds that are understandable to external observers.

Also: incomprehensible murmur · talk under your breath · mute lip gesticulation

Neologism Linguistic creation of a completely new word or attribution of an unprecedented and personal meaning to an already existing term, whose meaning is incomprehensible to the interlocutor and which responds to a disorganized thought process.

Also: invented word · neophasia · glossosemantics

Chinese neurasthenia Cultural syndrome characterized by extreme mental and physical weakness, persistent fatigue, tension headache, sleep insomnia, and generalized somatic dysfunction attributed to nervous system exhaustion.

Also: shenjing shuairuo · weakness of the nervous system · oriental nervous exhaustion

Delirious nihility Delusional conviction in which the patient absolutely maintains that he himself, parts of his organism, other living beings or the entire universe have ceased to exist physically, being reduced to absolute nothingness.

Also: Cotard's delirium · delirium of existential denial · psychopathological nihilism

Eidetic sharpness Involuntary or voluntary cognitive ability to mentally project images with a level of sensory detail, color, brightness and definition identical to those of a direct and real visual perception.

Also: eidetic image · sensory photographic memory · eidetic fidelity

Double wrong orientation Mental state in which the patient simultaneously lives with two different orientation realities, using the data of the real orientation for some behaviors while simultaneously maintaining a delusional or mystical orientation to justify his situation.

Also: double orientation · lusoid orientation · orientative coexistence

Palilalia Spoken language disorder that consists of the involuntary and repeated repetition of a word, short phrase or syllable previously pronounced by the subject himself, typically characterized by an increasing speed and a decreasing volume.

Also: autophonous repetition · autorepeat · palifemia

Pararesponse Phenomenon in which the subject responds to a direct question with an answer that completely avoids the topic posed, despite demonstrating that he has understood the meaning of the question through logically deviating answers.

Also: deviant response · side response · paradissociative response

Intentional pararesponse Alteration of the flow of thought where the responses issued by the subject intentionally or dissociatively avoid the question asked, answering in an erroneous but approximate manner.

Also: sideways thinking · voluntary deviated responses

Chronic pathotomy Severe and long-term factitious disorder in which the patient deliberately provokes or simulates physical or psychological symptoms in himself with the sole objective of assuming the role of the patient.

Also: Münchhausen syndrome · self-induced factitious disorder · pathomimic simulation

Night Dread Sudden and disorganized awakening that occurs during the first third of deep non-REM sleep, accompanied by screaming, crying, extreme terror and intense activation of the autonomic nervous system.

Also: night terror · wake up with non-REM panic · night terror crisis

Descriptive circumstantial thinking Course of thought characterized by an extremely detailed and indirect ideational flow, where the subject introduces multiple accessory explanations before managing to answer the initial question.

Also: discursive circumstance · descriptive prolixity · circumstantial detail

Wandering thinking Course of thought in which the subject constantly deviates from the main topic of conversation through loose associations or collateral comments, losing the guiding thread of the discourse.

Also: wandering thought · rambling speech · loss of the guiding idea

Thought interrupted Sudden stoppage of the flow of ideas and verbal expression due to a complete blockage of the course of thought, which the subject usually attributes to a subtraction of external origin.

Also: intercepted thought · blocking of ideational flow · interception of delusional thinking

Prone thinking Course of thought characterized by an inability to distinguish the essential from the accessory, which leads the subject to include an immense amount of trivial details and unnecessary explanations before achieving the final goal of his speech.

Also: circumstantiality · excessive detail · circumstantial redundant thinking

Broken thought Loss of logical association in the course of thought, which gives rise to the emission of sentences that are grammatically correct individually but that are disjointed from each other.

Also: disintegration · frayed thought · unstructured speech

Sound thought Anomalous perceptual experience in which the subject perceives that his own thoughts are reproduced out loud, simultaneously or immediately after their formulation, hearing them in his mind or projected in external space.

Also: echo of thought · echo of ideas · hearing thoughts

Primary tangential thinking Defect of the association of ideas in which the subject's speech continually surrounds the central topic of conversation without reaching any conclusion or direct response.

Also: discursive tangentiality · primary oblique thinking · systematic tangential response

Criticized perception Anomalous perceptual phenomenon without a real basis that the subject retains the capacity of judgment to analyze, immediately and correctly recognizing that the experience has no real basis and is the product of a pathological process of his brain.

Also: hallucinosis · hallucination with preserved judgment · hallucinatory experience criticized

Extracampal perception Anomalous sensory experience that is spatially located outside the theoretical physiological limits of the corresponding sensory organ, such as seeing an individual located directly behind the subject or hearing voices miles away.

Also: extracampine hallucination · extracampal sensory projection

Functional perception Hallucination that is triggered exclusively by the presence of a real stimulus in the same sensory channel, so that the false perception persists only while said background stimulus remains active.

Also: functional hallucination · hallucination induced by acoustic or visual stimulus

Loss of graphesthesia Inability to identify, decipher or recognize numbers, letters, shapes or geometric lines drawn on the surface of the skin while the subject remains with his eyes closed.

Also: agraphesthesia · tactile stroke blindness · graphesthetic deficit

Loss of the soul Latin American cultural syndrome in which the subject experiences extreme physical weakness, sleeplessness, anorexia and emotional distress after having experienced a terrifying or traumatic event that is believed to have detached their spirit from their body.

Also: scare · pathological horror · loss of vital energy due to fright

Cognitive perseveration Inappropriate and persistent repetition of a response, word, topic or motor behavior previously issued in the face of new stimuli or questions that would actually require a change in attitude or mental register.

Also: perseveration · pattern repeat · response fixity

Meticulous ananchastic personality Personality style characterized by an obsessive concern for order, extreme perfectionism, meticulous control of situations, and marked mental and behavioral rigidity.

Also: obsessive-compulsive personality disorder · rigid obsessive personality · anancastia of personality

Antisocial personality Persistent pattern of contempt, transgression and violation of the rights of others that begins in childhood or adolescence and persists into adulthood.

Also: antisocial personality disorder · clinical personality psychopathy · sociopathic personality behavior

Sociogenic antisocial personality Pattern of behavior characterized by the systematic transgression of social norms, impulsiveness, aggressiveness and lack of remorse, closely linked to a hostile, marginal or disadvantaged upbringing environment.

Also: sociopathy · dissocial personality disorder · sociogenic antisocial behavior

Cyclothymic personality Personality style characterized by persistent mood instability that manifests itself through numerous oscillations between periods of mild hypomania and depressive symptoms of moderate intensity.

Also: cyclothymia · chronic mood instability · cyclothymic temperament

Dependent personality Generalized pattern of excessive and persistent need to be cared for, which generates submissive behavior, pathological attachment and constant fears of separation or abandonment.

Also: dependent personality disorder · pathological submission of personality · emotional dependence of personality

Schizoid personality Persistent pattern of distancing from social relationships, preference for solitary activities, and severe restriction of emotional expression in interpersonal contexts.

Also: schizoid personality disorder · constitutional social detachment · schizoid personality introversion

Schizotypal personality Persistent pattern of social and interpersonal impairments characterized by acute distress in close relationships, cognitive distortions, behavioral eccentricity, and strange beliefs.

Also: schizotypal personality disorder · cognitive eccentricity of personality

Non-psychotic schizotypal personality Personality construct that describes a set of eccentric cognitive, perceptual and behavioral traits that are located on the continuum of vulnerability to psychotic disorders.

Also: schizotypy · proneness to psychosis · personality schizotypy

Avoidant personality Pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of incompetence or inadequacy, and extreme hypersensitivity to negative evaluation, rejection, or criticism from third parties.

Also: avoidant personality disorder · personality social phobia · personality interpersonal avoidance

Histrionic personality Generalized behavioral pattern characterized by excessive emotionality, affective superficiality, theatrical gesticulation and a constant search for attention and social protagonism.

Also: histrionic personality disorder · pathological dramatic behavior · histrionic temperament

Multiple personality Presence in the same individual of two or more identities or differentiated personality states, each with its own pattern of perceiving and relating, which alternately assume control of behavior.

Also: dissociative identity disorder · identity dissociation · multiplicity of personality

Narcissistic personality Persistent pattern of grandiosity, overwhelming need for external admiration, fantasies of unlimited success, and a marked lack of empathy for the feelings of others.

Also: narcissistic personality disorder · pathological personality egomania · personality narcissism

Paranoid personality Generalized pattern of mistrust and unjustified suspicion towards others, systematically interpreting their intentions as malicious, hostile or contemptuous.

Also: paranoid personality disorder · pathological suspicion of personality · personality paranoia

Psychopathic personality Personality disorder characterized by a persistent pattern of antisocial behavior, marked absence of empathy, remorse or guilt, self-centeredness, manipulation, and superficial charm.

Also: psychopathy · clinical psychopathic personality · severe antisocial personality disorder

Recurring nightmares Sleep disorder characterized by the repeated appearance of extremely vivid, terrifying and detailed dreams that awaken the subject abruptly, causing prolonged distress.

Also: nightmare disorder · recurring horror dreams · psychogenic nightmares

Unconscious plagiarism Anomaly of recognition in which a subject evokes a legitimate memory from his past but does not recognize it as such, experiencing said idea, melody or thought as if it were his own, original and unpublished creation that arose in his mind.

Also: cryptomnesia · hidden memory · unconscious memory assimilation

Non-delusional ruminative preoccupation Idea or set of thoughts that persistently dominates the subject's mind due to its strong affective charge, but which, unlike a delusion, lacks absurd content and can be attenuated through logical argumentation.

Also: prevalent idea · ruminant concern · dominant idea

Projection of the bodily self Visual and perceptual phenomenon in which an individual observes his own body image reflected in external space, standing in front of himself as if he were looking in a real mirror, preserving his consciousness in his physical body.

Also: autoscopy · double hallucination · spectrum of himself

Ganser Psychosis Dissociative disorder characterized by the voluntary or dissociative emission of approximate or erroneous answers to simple questions, accompanied by an alteration in the state of alertness and behaviors of astonishing naivety.

Also: Ganser syndrome · hysterical pseudodementia · deviant responses from Ganser

Korsakoff Psychosis Severe amnestic disorder secondary to a chronic thiamine deficiency, characterized by marked consolidation amnesia, evocation amnesia and compensatory fabulations that the subject believes to be true.

Also: Korsakoff syndrome · amnesic-confabulatory Korsakoff syndrome · Korsakoff's amnestic disorder

Windigo psychosis Native American cultural psychopathological delusion in which the subject believes he or she is possessed by a man-eating monster, experiencing an extreme fear of becoming a cannibal.

Also: windigo · mystical cannibal delirium · cannibal possession of windigo

Schizoaffective psychosis Severe psychiatric disorder in which, simultaneously or at different times of the illness, active psychotic symptoms characteristic of schizophrenia coexist with major affective episodes of a manic or depressive type.

Also: schizoaffective disorder · mixed psychosis · schizoaffective disorder

Schizophreniform psychosis Psychotic disorder whose clinical symptoms are identical to those observed in the active phase of schizophrenia, but whose total duration is between one month and a maximum of six months.

Also: schizophreniform disorder · intermediate psychotic break · acute schizophreniform psychosis

Late fantastic psychosis Chronic psychotic disorder of late onset characterized by the presence of fantastic delusions, rich confabulations and very elaborate grandiosity, which do not produce global intellectual deterioration in the subject.

Also: paraphrenia · paraphrenic delirium · fantastic late-onset schizophrenia

Persistent querulence Style of behavior characterized by a feeling of permanent injustice that induces the subject to repeatedly undertake legal actions and formal claims for trivial causes.

Also: chronic querulant delirium · personality litigation · persistent pathological litigation

Repetitive skin scratching Recurrent and persistent behavior of scratching, pinching or digging one's own skin that causes significant skin lesions, carried out semi-involuntarily in states of emotional tension.

Also: dermatillomania · compulsive skin scratching · self-induced psychodermatosis

Deviant reasoning Logically incorrect reasoning that the subject issues without the conscious intention to deceive, derived from a pathological alteration of the course and formal laws of thought.

Also: paralogism · psychopathological paralogism · paralogical reasoning

Limb rejection Intense feeling of hatred, aversion or rejection towards one of the extremities of one's own body, which may be accompanied by the conviction that said limb does not belong to the subject and an active desire for amputation.

Also: misoplegia · unilateral somatic hostility · rejection of the bodily member

Nocturnal teeth grinding Involuntary habit of clenching, rubbing or grinding the teeth in a rhythmic and spasmodic manner, which occurs predominantly during sleep, and can cause dental wear.

Also: bruxism · sleep bruxism · nocturnal tooth friction

Temporary re-experimentation Alteration of memory in which the subject relives an entire period of his personal past in such an intense, realistic and affective way that he behaves and speaks as if he were inhabiting said previous historical era, losing contact with his current reality.

Also: ecmnesia · anachronistic experience · temporary memory abduction

Intrusive representation Extremely vivid mental image, with a persistent and repetitive appearance that bursts into the subject's consciousness in an involuntary and annoying way, without the subject being able to avoid its appearance despite not possessing a delusional or psychotic quality.

Also: parasitic image · persistent mental representation · non-delusional mental intrusion

Opposing resistance Involuntary muscle tension or resistance, constant and of equivalent force opposed by the subject in the face of any attempt by the examiner to passively move their limbs or joints.

Also: gegenhalten · reflex motor opposition · catatonic resistance

Children's food rumination Repeated regurgitation of food from the stomach to the mouth to chew or spit it out again in childhood, of a functional nature and not associated with biological gastroesophageal reflux.

Also: childish merycism · psychogenic rumination of the infant · functional infant regurgitation

Confusion syndrome due to thiamine deficiency Acute psychiatric and neurological symptoms due to thiamine deficiency that presents with extreme mental confusion, incoordination of gait and alterations in ocular mobility.

Also: Wernicke's encephalopathy · Wernicke syndrome · Wernicke deficiency encephalopathy

Chronic Capgras syndrome Delusional and persistent conviction that an intimate or familiar person in the subject's environment has been replaced by an imposter or identical double who conspires against him or her.

Also: chronic sosias illusion · delirium of the persistent double imposter · Chronic delusional capgras

Clérambault syndrome Delusional conviction of a persistent nature in which the subject is firmly convinced that another person, generally of a much higher social rank, is secretly in love with him.

Also: erotomanic delirium · delirious erotomania

Mystical Cotard syndrome Delirium of denial of extreme severity in which the patient affirms that he has died, that he lacks a soul or internal organs, and that he is condemned to suffer eternally in hell.

Also: mystical nihilistic delirium · extreme body denial delusions · Delirious mystical cotard

Somatoform Couvade syndrome Phenomenon in which the partner of a pregnant woman empathically and involuntarily experiences physical symptoms typical of pregnancy, such as nausea or abdominal pain.

Also: somatomorphic couvade · gestating father syndrome

Delusional Fregoli syndrome Delirium of persecution in which the subject affirms with complete certainty that unknown people in his environment are actually a single persecutor who constantly changes his face and disguise.

Also: Fregoli's delirium of physical transformation · Delirious Fregoli · Fregoli chase

Gelineau syndrome Chronic neurological disorder of sleep regulation characterized by irresistible daytime sleepiness, sudden bouts of sleep during daily activities, and abnormal intrusions of REM sleep while awake.

Also: narcolepsy · essential narcolepsy · irresistible fits of sleep

Hallucinatory synesthesia Phenomenon in which the real stimulation of a specific sensory modality simultaneously causes the appearance of a false perception or hallucination in a completely different sensory channel.

Also: reflex hallucination · pathological crossed sensory perception

Soliloquy Loud and prolonged articulate speech that the subject directs to himself, often with a theatrical or expressive tone, without the presence of a real interlocutor or the intention of establishing external communication.

Also: talk to yourself · self-referred speech out loud · psychopathological monologue

Primary excessive drowsiness Chronic excess sleep manifested by prolonged episodes of nocturnal sleep or excessive, non-restorative daytime sleepiness that interferes with social or work performance.

Also: hypersomnia · idiopathic hypersomnia · essential excess sleep

Psychogenic daytime sleepiness Pathological increase in the time spent sleeping during the day or the presence of attacks of excessive drowsiness that are not explained by a neurological or biological sleep cause.

Also: psychogenic hypersomnia · emotional lethargy · reactive hypersomnia

Dissociative sleepwalking Performance of complex motor behaviors, such as getting out of bed and walking around the home, during deep non-REM sleep, with subsequent amnesia of the episode and origin linked to emotional conflicts.

Also: psychogenic nocturnal wandering · functional sleepwalking · clinical dissociative sleepwalking

Psychogenic drowsiness Moderate to severe alteration of the level of consciousness in which the patient is in a constant state of drowsiness or artificial sleep, from which they can only be awakened temporarily by the repeated application of vigorous or painful stimuli.

Also: deep lethargy · pathological semi-sleep · deep psychogenic drowsiness

Referential suspicion Attitude of extreme distrust in which the subject tends to systematically interpret neutral comments, casual gestures or everyday events in the environment as signals deliberately directed towards him or her with harmful or humiliating purposes.

Also: reference idea · referential distrust · self-referential suspicion

Thought subtraction Delusional conviction according to which an external force, entity, person or machine has the ability to extract, steal or strip thoughts directly from the individual's mind without their consent.

Also: thought theft · ideative dispossession · spoliation of thought

Tangentiality Defect in the course of thought in which the subject responds to a question in an oblique or indirectly related manner, taking continuous detours that avoid reaching the core or conclusion of the topic posed.

Also: tangential speech · oblique thinking · tangential response

Tachypsychia Pathological acceleration of the speed of the course of thought, characterized by an incessant troop of ideas that crowd the subject's mind, making their adequate structured verbal expression difficult.

Also: acceleration of thought · quick thinking · ideative rapture

Tonic-clonic stuttering Disorder of the fluency and rhythm of verbal elocution characterized by the involuntary tonic or clonic contraction of the speaking muscles, causing interruptions, blockages or syllabic repetitions.

Also: spasmophemia · spasmodic dysphemia · spasmodic stuttering

Fear of genital retraction Anxiety disorder of an epidemic or individual nature in which the subject experiences extreme panic that their external genital organs are shrinking or retracting towards the abdomen until causing death.

Also: koro · genital retraction phobia · genital retraction syndrome

Pathological fear of seminal loss An anxiety disorder characteristic of South Asia in which male patients experience severe panic attributed to the imagined loss of semen through urine or nocturnal emissions, associating it with extreme physical weakness.

Also: dhat · phobia of seminal loss · imagined seminal weakness

Children's night terror Sudden and disorganized awakening that occurs during the phases of deep non-REM sleep in childhood, characterized by screaming, crying, agitation and intense autonomic activation without memory of the content.

Also: childhood night terror · children's night terror crisis · waking up with childish panic

Reality test Continuous psychological process through which the subject contrasts, validates and verifies their perceptions, ideas and internal interpretations with the objective and consensual facts of the real environment.

Also: reality test · objective verification · empirical validation of reality

Transmission of thought Delusional belief that one's thoughts immediately spread to the external environment as they are formulated, allowing anyone close to them to be able to capture or hear them instantly.

Also: diffusion of thought · irradiation of thought · diffusion telepathy

Sleep initiation and maintenance disorder Sleep disorder characterized by difficulties falling asleep, frequent awakenings during the night or early awakening with inability to return to sleep, generating daytime fatigue.

Also: dysomnia · primary sleep disturbance · sleep fragmentation

Multiple tic disorder Neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by the continued presence of multiple motor tics and at least one phonic or vocal tic for more than a year, significantly interfering with daily life.

Also: Gilles de the Tourette syndrome · Tourette syndrome · multiple Tourette's ticopathy

Neurodevelopmental speech disorder Persistent difficulty in the production of speech sounds, verbal fluency, or articulation that interferes with social communication or academic performance, with onset in childhood.

Also: phonological disorder · developmental dysphemia · childhood stuttering

Chronic delusional disorder Psychiatric disorder characterized by the development and persistence of a highly structured, coherent and logically organized delusional system, with preservation of personality and cognitive functions.

Also: paranoia · paranoid systematized delirium · chronic paranoia

Persistent depressive disorder Chronic affective disorder characterized by a depressed mood of mild or moderate intensity that occurs continuously for most of the day, over at least two years.

Also: dysthymia · neurotic depression · chronic depressive state

Borderline personality disorder Persistent pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, emotions, and marked behavioral impulsivity that affects multiple areas of the subject's life.

Also: borderline personality · borderline of personality · borderline disorder

Neurotic disorder Psychopathological concept that designates a set of non-psychotic mental disorders characterized by subjective psychological suffering and intrapsychic conflict, keeping the judgment of reality intact.

Also: neurosis · intrapersonal psychic conflict · neurotic affectation

Neurodevelopmental trichotillomania Repetitive hair or body hair pulling behavior seen in children with developmental disorders, often associated with repetitive self-stimulatory behaviors.

Also: neurodevelopment hair pulling · infantile trichotillomania · capillary traction self-stimulatory behavior

Serious vital sadness Depressive state of extreme severity characterized by deep sadness of a physical or visceral nature, total loss of interest in the environment, feelings of delusional guilt and severe motor slowing.

Also: melancholy · melancholic vital depression · vital sadness

Motor hesitation Simultaneous presence of opposite and incompatible motor impulses, which paralyzes or interrupts the subject at the beginning or during a voluntary action or movement.

Also: ambitendency · body behavioral indecision · catatonic motor hesitation

Verbigeration Automatic, continuous, monotonous and meaningless repetition of the same words, syllables or phrases for prolonged periods of time, frequently observed in states of extreme agitation or advanced cognitive impairment.

Also: verbal stereotypy · pathological verbal chant · stereotypical logorrhea

Massive verbiage Continuous, uninterrupted, accelerated verbal flow that is very difficult to contain or interrupt, which is characteristically observed in states of affective or ideational excitement.

Also: logorrhea · uncontrollable speech · massive speech pressure

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