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PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
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From these pages, our center provides you with a description of the
symptoms of the most common diseases and disorders of the mind. Know that this relationship is purely informational and should under no circumstances be used for diagnostic, as this mission is optional, only, duly qualified professionals.
To make it easier to use, this relationship is sorted alphabetically. If you know the name of the disorder or disease that interests you, click on the letter that its name starts, in the following menu to go to the page that contains it.
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Or if you prefer, directly looking for the name, you're interested in the alphabetical list of all the disorders or diseases that we see in this glossary, we offer you below:
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RETROGRADE EJACULATION
RUIN DELUSIONAL IDEAS
RUMINATION DISORDER
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SADOMASOCHISM
SCOPOPHILIA (SCOPTOPHILIA) (VOYEURISM)
SELF-REFERENCE DELUSIONAL IDEAS
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PHOBIA
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SCHIZOPHRENIA
SOCIAL PHOBIA
SOMNAMBULISM
STEREOTYPES
STUPOR
SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR
SUPPRESSION OF LANGUAGE (APHASIA)
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TACHYLALIA (TACHYPHEMIA)
TACHYPSYCHIA
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UROLAGNIA
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VAGINISMUS
VOYEURISM
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RETROGRADE EJACULATION
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
This male sexual disorder,
orgasm and ejaculation are delayed significantly.
The causes of these phenomena, can be organic, for drinking
or narcotics, due to certain medicines and psychological |
Habitual Treatment |
Treatment is psychological
and / or sexological, where the origin is psychological. In
organic type disorders, treatment is medical. In cases of
abuse of drinking and / or narcotics only will disappear after
performing a detoxify and stop using. In cases of ingestion
of medications, usually have been warned by the doctor that
prescribed the disorder and forward, to end the need to take
them. |
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RUIN DELUSIONAL IDEAS
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
Delusions of ruin are those
in which the patient thinks he is absolutely ruined and is
not true. |
Habitual Treatment |
The treatment is psychiatric
and pharmacologic. |
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RUMINATION DISORDER
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
It is an eating disorder
consisting of chewing food and swallowing exaggerated
immediately and return them back to swallow. It is
associated with schizophrenia. |
Habitual Treatment |
The treatment is psychiatric
and pharmacologic. |
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SCOPOPHILIA
(SCOPTOPHILIA) (VOYEURISM)
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
It is a disorder in which
the affected obtains sexual pleasure by observing the sexual
acts of others. In severe cases, it may be the only way
through which they can get this pleasure. |
Habitual Treatment |
Treatment is psychological
and / or psychiatric |
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SELF-REFERENCE
DELUSIONAL IDEAS
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
The delusions of
self-reference, are those in which the patient thinks that
the whole world is watching him. They collect and interpret
real things their way. (Examples. Someone accidentally turns
his head and he thinks he is watching. Believe that talking
about it on TV. Thinks the car lights are passwords that are
exchanged against him.) |
Habitual Treatment |
The treatment is psychiatric
and pharmacologic. |
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SIMPLE PHOBIA
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
This type of phobia is
generally unimportant, since it is limited to a given
stimulus or to a specific situation, such dizzy at the sight
of blood. |
Habitual Treatment |
Although due to their
characteristics can, in most cases, treatment dispensed is
good attempt overcome phobia, through psychological therapy,
which usually is very short. |
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SIMPLE SCHIZOPHRENIA
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
The schizophrenia are
chronic psychotic illnesses. The sufferer, is often unaware
of their disease and lose the universal logic of things.
In simple schizophrenia, evolution is of a procedural
nature. The patient loses his habits, his friends, is
closing itself. Any projections of future disappears. There
is a progressive apathy and autism.
Not usually delusional behavior, although there may be a
disguised form.
Those affected by the disease, tend to carry dependent
lives, whether family, an institution or lead marginal lives
but, like prostitution, begging, etc. |
Habitual Treatment |
The treatment is psychiatric
and pharmacologic and in some cases with electroshocks. |
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SOCIAL PHOBIA
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
In this phobia, there is the
inability to relate and interact socially within the normal
scales. It is a disorder that is often linked to anxiety.
The person who has it has difficulty relating to others and
these difficulties are greater as is public speaking, or the
other sex, or ask a workplace, etc.
The person tends to suffer mental blocks, blushes and may
have sweating on hands. |
Habitual Treatment |
It is treated with
psychological therapy and can be used relaxation techniques
or hypnosis to increase efficiency and speed in obtaining
results. |
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SOMNAMBULISM
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
It is a sleep disorder in which the affected stands and
wanders asleep with his eyes open and avoiding obstacles,
sometimes playing movements or actions, but not aware of it.
Upon awakening remembers nothing of what happened. It is
more common in children and tends to disappear as they got
older. The mechanisms that produce somnambulism are still
poorly understood. |
Habitual Treatment |
Psychological therapy, based on relaxation techniques often
helps. |
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STEREOTYPES
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
This type of aphasia is a
language disorder caused by a brain injury.
Is the repetition of a word or syllable. |
Habitual Treatment |
Treatment is neurologic. |
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STUPOR
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
In this disorder the patient
loses the ability to respond to external stimuli. It causes
a set of symptoms, the main element is the reduction or
absence of relationship functions (speech, motility). It may
include clinical signs of silences, odd responses to heat
and cold, impaired urination, defecation and food,
catalepsy, negativism.
The most common causes are: schizophrenia, affective
disorders, hysteria, endogenous depressions. |
Habitual Treatment |
The treatment is psychiatric and
pharmacologic |
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SUICIDAL BEHAVIORS
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
Suicidal behaviors,
including self-injurious inside, up the most extreme level
of self-aggressiveness and may be due to endogenous
depression, schizophrenia, disorders of hysterical type, in
this case the behavior is more communicative and
manipulative than real, but in many sometimes can reach
success, perhaps unwanted. Finally there is a trigger that
are physical illnesses, which presuppose great pain, where
the person can make the decision to commit suicide to
eliminate suffering, can also occur in some obsessive
disorders where the affected see clearly the absurdity of
their behavior and degeneration suffering and decides to end
it. It may also be a consequence of the use of toxic. |
Habitual Treatment |
The treatment is psychiatric
and pharmacologic, often with the support of psychological
therapy. In many cases may require hospitalization. |
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SUPPRESSION OF
LANGUAGE (APHASIA)
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
In this type of aphasia, caused by brain injury, there is a
loss of language, absolute in most cases. |
Habitual Treatment |
Treatment is neurologic. |
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TACHYLALIA (TACHYPHEMIA)
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
It is a disorder of the rhythm
of language, where a pathological acceleration thereof
occurs. The causes are often neurological. |
Habitual Treatment |
Treatment is psychiatric or neurologic. |
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TACHYPSYCHIA
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
It is a rhythm disturbance of thought, there is a
pathological acceleration of thought, which may even lead to
flight of ideas. |
Habitual Treatment |
Treatment is psychiatric or neurologic. |
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UROLAGNIA
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
This sexual behavior disorder, is characterized by obtaining
pleasure to urinate or defecate. Many times it is included
in the S & M. |
Habitual Treatment |
Treatment is psychiatric |
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VAGINISMUS
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
It is a disorder of sexual behavior in women, which causes
contraction of the vaginal muscles, so that prevent
penetration or make this is painful, without pleasure, so
the woman just refusing sexual intercourse. |
Habitual Treatment |
Once discarded any organic disease, treatment is
psychological leaning on relaxation techniques. |
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VOYEURISM
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Characteristics and Symptoms |
It is a disorder in sexual behavior, which is characterized
by obtaining pleasure by observing other people's sex
scenes, without intervening directly in them. |
Habitual Treatment |
Treatment is psychiatric and / or psychological. |
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Consulting of Psychology and Health Montse Valls Giner
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