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Psychiatry
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Psych/o = mind + iatr/o = treatment
branch of medicine that deals with diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental illness |
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Psychiatrists
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Receive an MD
then spend a number of years training in the methods and practice of psychotherapy and psychopharmacology |
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Psychotherapy
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Techniques for treating mental disorders
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Psychopharmacology
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Drug therapy for mental disorders
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Psychoanalysis
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Patient freely relates thoughts to an analyst
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Psychologist
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Nonmedical professional who is trained in methods of psychotherapy, analysis and research and completes a PHD in a specific field of interest
Ex: clinical psychology, experimental research, social psychology they can not subscribe drugs or electrotherapy |
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Other nonphysicians trained in the treatment of mental illness
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Licensed clinical social workers
psychiatric nurses licensed mental health clinicians |
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Psychological testing
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IQ tests
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale Projective (personality) tests Rorschach technique Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) - tell story from pictures Graphomotor projection tests - draw a person tests Bender-Gestalt test - patient asked to draw geometric designs Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) - true/false questions that reveal aspects of personality |
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Amnesia
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Loss of memory
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Anxiety
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Varying degrees of uneasiness apprehension dread
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Apathy
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Absence of emotions, lack of interest
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Autistic thought
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Thinking is internally stimulated and ideas have a private meaning
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Compulsion
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Uncontrollable urge to perform an act repeatedly
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Conversion
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Anxiety becomes a bodily symptom...such as blindness
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Delusion
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Fixed false belief that cannot be changed by logical reasoning
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