1.  Abstraction :- The process whereby thoughts orideas are generalized and dissociated
from particularconcrete instances or material objects. Abstinence Syndrome
(Withdrawalsyndrome) :-In the area of alcohol or drugdependence, being without the
substance on which thesubject is dependent. Abreaction :- A process used in some
forms ofpsychotherapy especially psychoanalytically orientedones. Aboiement :-
Involuntary production of abnormalsounds. Ablutomania :- Excessive interest in
bathing andcleaning oneself. It is common in obsessive
compulsivedisorder.www.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com
 3. Agitation :- Excessive motor activity, usually nopurposeful and associated with
internal tension. Aggression :- forceful physical, verbal or symbolicaction. Affect :-
The subjective and immediate experience ofemotion attached to ideas of mental
representation ofobjects. Addiction :- A state of physiological or
psychologicaldependence on some substance, usually a drug. Acatalepsia :- A mental
deficiency characterized bythe inability to reason or comprehend. Abuse :- of
substances, using them inappropriately ina way that is harmful to the individuals.
Abulia :- Lack of will or motivation, often expressedas inability to make
decisions.www.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com
 4. Ambivalence :- Presence of strong and oftenoverwhelming simultaneous
contrastingattitudes, ideas, feelings and drives towards anobject, person or goal.
Alcoholism :- Excessive dependence on or addiction toalcohol usually to the point that
the person’s physical andmental health is threatened or harmed. Akinesia :- Lack of
physical movement, as in the extremeimmobility of catatonic schizophrenia. Akathisia
;- A state of motor (or less often verbal)restlessness manifested by the compelling need to
be inconstant movement. Agroinania :- Excessive interest in living alone or in
ruralseclusion; it is sometimes associated with schizophrenia. Agoraphobia :- Fear of
open places: as phobic disordercharacterized by a fear of leaving one’s
home.www.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com
 5. Anxiety :- It is a pervasive feeling of dread , apprehension Ataxia :- lack of
coordination, either physical or mental. Inneurology it refers to loss of muscular
coordination. Amnesia :- Pathologic loss of memory; phenomenon inwhich an area of
experience becomes inaccessible toconscious
recall.www.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com& Attitude :- A ‘mental set’ held by an
individual whichaffects the ways that person responds to event Attention :-
Concentration, the aspect of consciousness. Apraxia :- Inability to perform a voluntary
purposefulmotor activity. Aphasis:- A disturbance of language function due toorganic
brain disorder.impending disaster. & organizeshis cognitions.
 6. Autism :- Thoughtwww.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com & fantasy determined entirely
by theperson’s needs & wishes & Automatic obedience :- The phenomenon of
unduecompliance with instruction, a feature of commandautomatism associated with
catatonic syndromeNot constrained by reality in anyway. & Automatism :-
Automatichypnoticstate. & Behaviour therapy :- A psychiatric treatment modalitythat
focuses on overtapparently undirectednonpurposive behaviour that is not consciously
controlled.Seen in the psychomotor epilepsy. & objectively observable behaviour &
Cacosomnia :- Sleeplessness.uses various conditioning techniques devired from
learningtheory to modify patient behaviour directly.

2.  7. Community psychiatry:- psychiatry focusing on thedetection, prevention and early
treatment of mentaldisorders. Clang association:- Association or speech directed bythe
sound of a word, rather then its meaning. Circumstantiality :- Disturbance in the
associativethought and speech processes in which the patientdigresses into unnecessary
details and inappropriatethoughts before communicating the central idea. Catatonic
waxy flexibility:- The person’s limbs can be‘molded’ into any position which is then
maintained. Cataplexy:- Temporary sudden loss of muscletone, causing weakness and
immobilization. Cataplepsy :- Condition in which a person maintains thebody position
which he is placed.www.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com
 8. Crisis intervention:- A brief therapeutic approach usedin emergency rooms of general
psychiatric hospital that isameliorative, rather than curative, of acute
psychiatricemergency. Crisis:- A state of psychological disequilibrium, turningpoint in
person’s life. Convulsive therapy:- A from of therapy involving agroup of techniques
that induces seizures. Confusion:- A term usually employed to designate a stateof
impaired consciousness associated with acute or chroniccerebral organic disease.
Confabulation:- Unconscious filling the gaps in memoryby imaging experiences or events
that have no basis in fact. Compulsion:- Uncontrollable, repetitive and unwantedurge to
perform the act.www.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com
 9. Delirium :- An acute, reversible organic mentaldisorder characterized by confusion
Déjà vu :- Illusion of visual recognition in which a newsituation incorrectly regarded as a
repetition of aprevious experience. Deja entendu :- Illusion that what one is hearing
onehas heard previously.www.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com & Delusion :- A false
belief that is firmly held, despiteobjectivesome impairmentof consciousness. & obvious
contradictory proof of evidence & Dementia :- A organic mental disorder characterizedby
general impairment in intellectual functioning.despite the fact that other member of the
culture do notshare the belief.
 10. Depression :- A mental state characterized by feeling ofsadness, loneliness, despair,
low self-esteem Depersonalization :- Sensation of unreality concerningoneself, parts of
oneself, or one’s environment which occursunder extreme stress or
fatigue.www.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com & Detoxification :- Treatment by the use
ofmedication, diet, rest, fluidself-approach. & Doctor-patient relationship :- Human
interchangethat exist between the person who is sicknursing care to restorephysiological
functioning after it has been seriouslydisturbed by the overuse of alcohol. & the person
whois selected because of training & Drug abuse :- the self-administration of a medicinal
orpleasurable substance in a quantity or manner that impairshealth or social
function.experience to heal.
 11. Drug dependence :- A state, psychicwww.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com &
Emotion:- The experience of subjective feelings whichhave positive or negative value for
the individual. Elation:- An affective state of joyous gaiety which, whenintensified and
out of keeping with life circumstances, is adominant symptom of mania and hypomania.
Eestasy:- State of rapturous belight. Echopraxia:- Repetition of another person’s
movement.It is observed in some cases of schizophrenia. Echolalia :- Repetition of
another person’s words orphrase. Dystonia :- Extrapyramidal motor disturbance
consistingof slow, sustained contraction of axial or appendicularmusculature.sometime
alsophysical, resulting from taking a drug.

3.  12. Forensic psychiatry :- The branch of psychiatry thatis concerned with the legal
aspects of mental illness. Floccillation :- Aimless plucking or picking, usually
atbedclothes or clothing. Flight of ideas :- A nearly continuous flow ofaccelerated
speech with abrupt changes from topic totopic, usually based on
understandableassociations, distracting stimuli. Fellatio:- Use of the mouth or tongue to
stimulate themale genitalia. Exhibitionism:- A paraphilia in which a man exposeshis
genitals to females in a socially inappropriatefashion. Empathy:- The intellectual and
emotional awarenessand understanding of another person’s state of
mind.www.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com
 13. Hypersomnia:- Execessive time spent asleep. It is notrelated to narcolepsy. Halo’s
effect:- The improvement in anxiety maysometime spuriously improve depression is
known asHalo’s effect. Halfway house :- A specialized residence for patientswho do not
require full hospitalization but who need anintermediate degree of care before returning
toindependent community living. Habituation:- A very basic from of learning
whichinvolves gradually ceasing to respond to a non-significantstimulus which is
repeatedly experienced. General adaptational syndrome (GAS) :- Theresponses of the
body to major stress, passing through thealarm reaction, resistance and, finally,
exhaustion.www.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com
 14. Isolation :- In psychoanalysis, a defense mechanisminvolving the separation of an
idea or memory from itsattached feeling tone. Introvert :- An individual inclined
towards asolitary, reflective lifestyle. Insomnia :- Difficulty in falling asleep or
difficulty instaying asleep. Incoherence :- Speech that, for the most part, is
notunderstandable. Illusion:- Perceptual misinterpretation of a real externalstimulus.
Hypomania:- A psychopathologic state and abnormalityof mood falling somewhere
between normal euphoria andmania. Hypnosis:- Artificially induced alteration
ofconsciousness characterized by increased suggestibility andreceptivity to
direction.www.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com
 15. Masochism:- A paraphilia in which sexualgratification is derived from being
physically orpsychologically maltreated by the partner or oneself. Mania :- Mood
disorder characterized byelation, agitation, hyperactivity andhyperexcitability, and
accelerated thinking andspeaking (flight of ideas). Loosening of associations :- A
characteristicschizophrenic thinking or speech disturbance involvinga disorder in the
logical progression of thoughts. Kleptomania :- An outmoded term for amorbid, often
sudden and usually irresistible impulseto steal without an apparent need. Judgement :-
Mental act of comparing or evaluatingchoices within the framework of a given set of
valuesfor the purpose of electing a course of action.www.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com
 16. Mourning :- Reaction to a loss of a love object (importantperson, object, role status,
or anything considered part ofone’s life) consisting of a process of emotional
detachmentfrom that object which frees the subject to find other interests Mood :- A
pervasive and sustained emotion that inextreme, markedly colours the person’s
perception of theworld. Mental status :- General functional condition of mental
andbehavioural process as determined by psychiatric assessmentof a variety of areas of
functioning, such as state ofconsciousness, mood and affect, thinking and speech,
motorbehaviour, generalknowledge, memory, calculation, judgement, abstraction,
andinsight. Mental retardation :- A condition of arrested orincomplete development of

4. the mind which is especiallycharacterized by subnormality of
intelligence.www.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com
 17. Negativism :- Verbal or nonverbal opposition or resistanceto outside suggestions
Narcolepsy :- Uncontrollable, recurrent, brief episodes ofsleepassociated with excessive
daytimesleepiness, cataplexy, sleep paralysis, hypnagogichallucinations, and often
disturbed nocturnal sleep.www.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com & Nightmare :- Anxiety
attack while dreaming. Itcharacterized by mild anxiety, good recall of dream, Neurosis
:- Mental disorder characterized primarily byanxiety. Neologism :- New word or phrase,
often seen inschizophrenia.advice. & Night-terror :- Extreme panic attack while
dreaming . It ischaracterized by verbalization, confusion, autonomic
activitymildautonomic reaction.& poor recall of dream.
 18. Obsession :- Persistentwww.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com & Oedipus complex:-
Constellation of feeling, impulses, Occupational psychiatry :- Area of
psychiatricconcerned with mental illness in industry.recurrent idea, thought orimpulse
that can not be eliminated from consciousnessbylogic or reasoning. &conflict in the
developing child that concern sexual impuses& attraction toward the opposite-sex parent
& Paranoia:- A rare condition characterized by the gradualdevelopment of an intricate,
complex Organic mental disorder :- mental disorder caused bytransient or permanent
brain dysfunction attributable tospecific organic factor.aggressive, hostile, or envious
feeling toward the same-sexparent. & elaborate system ofthinking based on
misinterpretation of an actual event.
 19. paraphillia :- Types of psychosexual disorder. The termrefer to a sexual deviation
characterized by persitentwww.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com & Pederasty:-
Homosexual Parapraxis :- A faulty act, blunder, or lapse of memorysuch as a slip of the
tongue or misplacement of an article.recurrent sexual fantasies, often of an
unusualnature, without which imagery erotic arousal or orgasm innot attained. &
intercourse between men & Perseveration :- Persistent repetition of words, idea,
orsubjects so that , once an individual begins speaking abouta particular subject or uses
aparticular word, it continuallyrecurs. Pedophilia :- A paraphilia involving sexual
activity ofadult with the children as the object.boys with the latter as the passive partner.
 20. Pica :- An eating disorder consisting of the craving Phobic disorder :- An anxiety
disorder characterized byintense specific fear of an object. Phobia :- An obsessive,
persistent, unrealistic, intense fearof an object or situation. Perversion :- Deviation from
the expected norm. Inpsychiatric, it commonly signifies sexual
perversion.www.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com & Schizophrenia :- Psychotic mental
disorder characterizedby disturbances in thinking, moodeating of unusual foods or other
substances. & Transsexualism:- A gender identity disorder in which apersobehaviour.
Verbigeration :- Senseless repetition of same words orphrases over Uxoricide :- Killing
of a wife by her husband.n has a desire to be of the opposite sex. & over again.
 21. Zoolagnia :-Sexual attraction to animals. withdrawal symptoms :- It is an organic
mentaldisorder following stopping or reduction in theintakeof a substance such as
alcohol, opioids etc. Waxy flexibility :- Parts of body can be placed inpositions that will
be maintained for long periods oftime, even if very uncomfortable
.www.drjayeshpatidar.blogspot.com