DYNAMICS OF BEHAVIOR PATTERNS SYMPTOMS

WAXY FLEXIBILITY
An overt response to stimuli of suggestive nature is observed in waxy flexibility. A body posture imposed by another is readily accepted and maintained rigidly for a prolonged period of time by a patient who may be perceiving an overwhelming emotion or threatening stimulus such as fear or hallucinations.

ECHOPRAXIA
Compulsive displacement of anxiety through automatic duplication of the immediately observed movements and gestures made by another individual in the patients presence.

IMPULSIVENESS
Sudden, unpredictable outburst of activity, such as striking physically at someone, without first thinking about the rationality and effect of the behavior.

TICS AND SPASMS

Involuntary jerking and twitching of some part of the body, usually localized in the neck, face and head.

ECHOLALIA
Repeating the speech of another, like a resounding echo, as if compulsion to respond. experiencing a

PUNNING
The injection of witty or clever remarks into a conversation.

RHYMING
Rhyming of phrases or whole sentence in a lyrical poetic manner during conversation or writing which may symbolize the conflictual elements and the needs associated with mental conflict.

NEOLOGISMS
The coining of new words that have symbolic meaning, or the conferring of new meaning commonly. upon words that are used

CIRCUMSTANTIALITY
The inclusion in conversation by a highly anxious individual of many unnecessary details, scattered thoughts and explanations.

FLIGHT OF IDEAS
A continuous stream of conversation with rapid shift in topic owing to pressure of thoughts, sometimes characterized as topic jumping.

WORD SALAD
A disconnected flow of communication made up of a mixture of words, phrases, and sentence which sound meaningless and as if the product of dissociations and the pressure of invading thoughts.

MUTISM
The state of being silent or voiceless.

EUPHRORIA
A abnormal, exaggerated feeling of wellbeing which is out of proportion to environmental and interpersonal stimuli.

ELATION
An effective reaction extending beyond a state of euphroria. It is characterized by increased anxiety and psychomotor in which the persons thinking, communications, and body movement escalate.

BLUNTING
A flattening of affect or loss of the capacity to experience and express emotion at normal intensity.

AMBIVALENCE
The coexistence of two opposing drives, desires, feelings or emotions.

LABILITY
Sometimes characterized as emotional instability. Owing to the sharp influence of rapidly changing

thoughts and feeling tones, the patient manifests

quick shifts in his emotional responses, as if gliding from one into another affect.

IRRITABILITY
Feeling emotionally out of harmony with a situation.

DISORIENTATION
Being unaware of the correct date, time, place, etc.

DISTRACTIBILITY
The interference of anxiety and

environmental stimuli with ones ability to focus attention upon communications and occurrences.

SUGGESTIBILITY
Being readily responsive to stimuli of a suggestive nature.

PREOCCUPATION
Persistent introspection ad inward

reflection, thus internalizing instead of externalizing intellectual activity and affect.

ILLUSIONS
A misinterpretation of an external

stimulus by any of the special senses.

DELUSIONS
A false belief to which the patient clings that is motivated by the affective aspect of the personality.

IDEAS OF REFERENCE
A belief held by the patient that

something in the environment has a meaning especially intended for him.

ALIEN CONTROL
A belief held that one is under the stronger influence of another person or force.

COSMIC IDENTIFICATION
Expressing the delusion that one had abilities which may be lickened to the powers of a supreme being.

DEPERSONALIZATION
Verbalizing the belief that one no longer exists or experiences the former normal feeling reactions but is instead perceiving as if one were something inanimate or unreal and had lost the capacity to perceive as a living being.

TRANSFER OF PERSONALITY
The patient believes that he is someone else, and he acts like that other person.

MEMORY IMPAIRMENTS
Memory defects vary in degree and type may be organic, emotional, or mixed origin.

STUPOR
A reduction in mental alertness and awareness which may vary in degree and depth fro drowsiness to comatose states and the appearance of pathological body reflexes.

PSEUDOLOGICA FANTASTICA
False logic of a fantastic nature that is motivated by a low self-esteem and weak superego.