Thought Disorder

THOUGHT DISORDER

DISORDER OF FORM
(Form is the structure of thought)
🔸 loosening of association
🔸 derailment
🔸 tangentiality
🔸substitution
🔸omission
🔸 transitory thinking
🔸 driveling
🔸 desultory thinking
🔸 neologisms
Poverty of speech
🔸 poverty of content of speech

DISORDER OF STREAM
(Flow of thought)
🔹Flight of ideas
🔹Thought block
🔹Circumstantiality
🔹Prolixity
🔹Thought retardation
🔹Perseveration

DISORDER OF POSSESSION
( Control of thought)
🔸Obsession and compulsion
🔸 thought insertion
🔸 thought withdrawal
🔸 thought broadcast

DISORDER OF CONTENT
(Themes)
🔹 delusion of reference
🔹persecution
🔹 grandiosity
🔹 guilt
🔹nihilism
🔹 depressive cognitions
🔹overvalued ideas