forensic psychiatry

What us delusion

Fixed false belief that cannot be corrected by logic or argumentation . It is a disorder of thought. Intelligence has got no connection with delusion and some of the persons are super intelligent also. There are different types of delusions

Types of delusion

Delusion of persecution( paranoid)

Delusion of grandeur( exaltation)

Delusion of infidelity

Nihilistic delusion

Hypochondriacal delusion

Delusion of influence

Delusion of reference

Delusion of self reproach

Religious delusions

Erotomania( de clerambault’s syndrome)

Cotard delusion

Capgrass syndrome ( delusional misidentification syndrome ( DMAS), imposter syndrome)

Fregoli syndrome

Delusion of parasitosis

Hallucination

false sense perception without a stimulus to produce it, the false perception can occur to all senses

Types of hallucination

Visual

Auditory

Olfactory

Gustatory

Tactile

Psychomotor

Lilliputian hallucination

Hypnagogic hallucination

Illusion

False interpretation of an existing stimulus by the senses

Types of illusion

Visual

Auditory

Olfactory

Tactile

Delirium

Disturbance of consciousness in which the person is disoriented in time and space. It is a disorder of cognition

Impulse

Irresistable desire to do something without any provocation

obsession

This is an anxiety reaction in which the mind us preoccupied with certain thoughts and ideas that cannot be driven away

Type of impulse

Kleptomania

Pyromania

Dipsomania

Mutilomania

Oniomania

Trichotilomania

Nyphomania

Satyriasis

Suicidal and homicidal impulses

Phobia

An irrational fear and anxiety for specific things

Circumstantiality

Talk with so many irrelevant details and unable to express the idea he wants to convey

Confabulation

Recent memory of the patient is lost and the gap is filled with his own imaginations

Abreaction

A forgotten painful and traumatic experience is brought back to consciousness

Neologism

New word or phrase is created whose derivation cannot be understood

Echolalia

Repeating similar words without conveying the meaning

Psychopath

A person who is having an irresistable desire to do crimes

Fugue

In the state , the individual forgets part or whole of his life, leaves home and wanders

Amnesia

Loss of memory