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PN Mental Health FINAL
1. Alogia <Ans> poverty of speech, is a general lack of additional, unprompted
content seen in normal speech.
2. Anhedonia <Ans> inability to feel pleasure.
3. Psychosomatic illness <Ans> physical disease that is thought to be caused,
or made worse, by mental factors.
4. Exhibitionism <Ans> extravagant behavior that is intended to attract attention
to one- self.
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Psychiatry
a mental condition characterized by the compulsion to display one's genitals in
public.
5. Voyeurism <Ans> practice of gaining sexual pleasure from watching others
when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity.
6. Frotteurism <Ans> rubbing, usually one's pelvic area or erect penis, against a
non-con- senting person for sexual pleasure. It may involve touching any part of
the body, including the genital area.
7. Fetishism <Ans> a form of sexual behavior in which gratification is linked to an
abnor- mal degree to a particular object, activity, part of the body, etc.
8. Adjunctive therapy <Ans> treatment used together with the primary
treatment. Its purpose is to assist the primary treatment.
9. Disordered thinking <Ans> Thought disorder (TD) or formal thought
disorder (FTD) Thought disorder (TD) or formal thought disorder (FTD) refers to
disorganized thinking as evidenced by disorganized speech. Specific thought
disorders include derailment, poverty of speech, tangentially, illogicality,
