Glossary of Psychiatry Psychiatry is full of unusual and
unfamiliar terms. This psychiatric glossary explains the most
common of these terms used in psychiatry. Compulsion :
Confabulation : Cyclothymia Dejà vu : Delirium : Delusion :
Delusional Mood : Delusional Perception : Dementia :
Depersonalisation : Depression : Derealisation : Dyskinesia:
Dyspraxia Echolalia : Echopraxia First Rank Symptoms : Flight of
Ideas : Frontal Lobe Syndrome Hallucination : Hypomania Illusion
: Insight Made phenomena : Mania Neologism : Neuroleptic
Malignant Syndrome Parietal lobe signs : Passivity phenomena :
Perseveration Schizophasia : Seasonal Affective Disorder Tardive
dyskinesia : Thought blocking : Thought broadcasting : Thought
disorder : Thought echo : Thought insertion : Thought withdrawal
An organism's psychological or physical dependence on a drug,
characterised by tolerance and withdrawal. A pathological
psychological reaction to trauma, loss or severe stress. Usually
these last less than six months, but may be prol