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Derailment (thought disorder)

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In a mild manifestation, this thought disorder is characterized by slippage of ideas further and further from the point of a discussion. Derailment can often be manifestly caused by intense emotions such as euphoria or hysteria. Some of the synonyms given above
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Elyn Saks: "A tale of mental illness — from the inside." TEDGlobal 2012. Recorded in June 2012.
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by grammatically combining snippets; many of the sentences generated are individually plausible
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was first used in the context of pathological thinking by the psychologist
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compose; the topic often changes from one sentence to another.
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or the hallmark of one; it is sometimes used as a synonym for
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Index

psychiatry
speech
ideas
asyndetic
tangentiality
creativity
mental disorder
lateral thinking
Nancy C. Andreasen
Elyn Saks
derailment
German
Carl Schneider
Peter McKellar
schizophrenia
Kurt Schneider
Nonsense
Non sequitur (logic)
non sequitur (literary device)
Red herring
Relevance logic
Schizophasia
SCIgen
research papers
Tip-of-the-tongue
Train of thought


World Health Organization
MB25.02

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