Posts Tagged Under: paranoid

Solitary Confinement

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People being alone at sea, on polar expeditions or solitary confinement in prison may experience hallucinations (visual, auditory, tactile and, occasionally, tactile) , paranoid and grandiose delusions ?

On account of this, the astronaut training incorporates practices in simulated conditions and, also, examine the applicants in order to determining which ones will survive with the least distortion of reality and with the least affective disturbances.

(Edited by María Moya Guirao, MD)

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Amentia

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The term Amentia has had various connotations during the history of Psychiatry ?

Theodor Meynert, Freud‘s professor in medical school in Vienna, used it to describe the paranoid states.

Later the Viennese school used the term Amentia for acute hallucinatory confusion. At the present time, this term is used in relation to primary mental deficiency, and as diagnosis for “delirium“.

(Edited by María Moya Guirao, MD)

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Projection

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in the Projection mechanism the person attributes one’s unacknowledged feelings to other ?

We could see this unconscious mechanism in the suspicion paranoid.

 

(Edited by María Moya Guirao, M.D.)

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