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Ideas of reference
Ideas of reference Incorrect interpretations of casual incidents and external events as having direct reference to oneself. May reach sufficient intensity to constitute delusions.
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Delusions
A condition in which the patient has lost touch with reality and experiences hallucinations and misperceptions.
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Idealization
A mental mechanism in which the person attributes exaggeratedly positive qualities to the self or others.
Ideation
In mental life, the collective representation of thoughts and ideas presently recognized, recalled from memory, or projected into the future, singly or in combination.
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Intercellular
Between two cells.
Intracellular
Within cells.
Ipsilateral
Affecting or pertaining to the same side.
Id
In Freudian theory, the part of the personality that is the unconscious source of unstructured desires and drives. See also ego; superego.
Idealization
A mental mechanism in which the person attributes exaggeratedly positive qualities to the self or others.
Ideas of reference
Idiot savant
A person with gross mental retardation who nonetheless is capable of performing certain remarkable feats in sharply circumscribed intellectual areas, such as calendar calculation or puzzle solving.
Illusion
A misperception or misinterpretation of a real external stimulus, such as hearing the rustling of leaves as the sound of voices. See also hallucination.
Inappropriate affect
An affect type that represents an unusual affective expression that does not match with the content of what is being said or thought.
Incoherence
Speech or thinking that is essentially incomprehensible to others because words or phrases are joined together without a logical or meaningful connection. This disturbance occurs within clauses, in contrast to derailment, in which the disturbance is between clauses. This has sometimes been referred to as "word salad" to convey the degree of linguistic disorganization. Mildly ungrammatical constructions or idiomatic usages characteristic of particular regional or cultural backgrounds, lack of education, or low intelligence should not be considered incoherence. The term is generally not applied when there is evidence that the disturbance in speech is due to an aphasia.
Incorporation
A primitive defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, in which the psychic representation of a person, or parts of the person, is figuratively ingested.
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