Hallucination (MRCPsych course)

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Hallucination = false perception without stimulus

Mnemonics C3-O-I3

• Clear as normal perception
• Constant
• Conscious
• Objective space
• Independent of will
• Insight absent
• Impaired reality testing

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Formal Thought Disorder mnemonics MRCPsych course

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Formal Thought Disorder  (mnemonics)

•       Bleuler (1911)

    (Mr. B likes LoCo DisCoS)

• Looseness of association
• Condensation
• Displacement
• Concrete thinking of symbols
• Symbols misuse

• Schneider (1930)

(Likes going to DD F.O.S. (factory outlet store)

to buy DDT)

• Derailment
• Drivelling
• Flight of ideas
• Omission
• Substitution
• He also suggested that Schizophrenia  patients

     complained of  3 different disorders of thinking:

• Drivelling thinking
• Derailment thinking
• Transitory Thinking

• Cameron (1944)

     (went COMA)

• Cameron
• Over-inclusive thinking
• Metonyms
• Asyndesis
• Goldstein (1944)

    (likes “Gold Class”)

• Concrete thinking

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