Involuntary use of vulgar or obscene language. Observed in some cases of schizophrenia and Tourette's Syndrome.

Self centered; selfishly preoccupied with ones own needs, lacking interest in others.

Loss or decrease in appetite.

Voluntary assumption of an inappropriate or bizarre posture, generally maintained for long periods of time. May switch unexpectedly wit catatonic excitement.

Conscious act of controlling and inhibiting an unacceptable impulse, emotion, or idea; differentiated from repression in that repression is an unconscious process.

Difficulty in comprehending oral language (reception ________) or in trying to express verbal language (expressive __________).

Morbid self-preoccupation or self centeredness.

Feelings of unpleasantness or discomfort; a mood of general dissatisfaction and restlessness.

Fixed and sustained motoric position that is resistant to change.

Freud's term for an unconscious defense mechanism in which unacceptable mental contents are banished or kept out of consciousness, important in normal psychological development and in neurotic and psychotic symptom formation.

Difficulty or pain with speaking.

Exaggerated feelings of one's own importance, power, knowledge, or identity. Occurs in delusional disorder and manic states.

A severe depressive state.

Movement disorder characterized by random and involuntary quick, jerky, purposeless movements, Seen in Huntington's disease.

Unconscious defense mechanism in which a person undergoes a partial or total return to earlier patterns of adaptation; observed in many psychiatric conditions, particularly schizophrenia.

Condition characterized by the reduction in the quantity of spontaneous speech; replies to questions are brief and unelaborated, and little or no unprompted additional information is provided. Occurs in major depression, Schizophrenia, and organic mental disorders.

In Psychoanalytic theory, divided into primary and secondary types: primary ___________, is the early infantile phase of object relationship development, when the child has not differentiated the self from the outside world, and all sources of pleasure are unrealistically recognized as coming from within self, giving the child a false sense of omnipotence; secondary ____________, when libido, once attached to external love objects, is redirected back to the self.

Physical and mental over activity that is usually nonproductive and is associated with a feeling of inner turmoil, as seen in agitated depression.

The development of symbolic physical symptoms and distortions involving the voluntary muscles or special sense organs; not under voluntary control and not explained by any physical disorder.

Unconscious defense mechanism in which a person develops a socialized attitude or interest that is the direct infantile wish or impulse that is harbored consciously or unconsciously.

Loss of voice, seen in conversion disorder.

Constant preoccupation with thinking about a single idea or theme, as in OCD.

In depression, denoting characteristic symptoms such as sleep disturbance (especially early morning awakening), decreased appetite, constipation, weight loss and loss of sexual response.

Condition in which a person maintains the body position into which they are placed with slight resistance to movement giving it a waxy feel

Inability to focus one's attention; the patient does not respond to the task at hand but attends to irrelevant phenomena in the environment.