Disorientation - Glossary Of Medical Terms

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Disorientation - Glossary Of Medical Terms
Disorientation - Glossary Of Medical Terms

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Disorientation

Disorientation (Latin de- - the prefix meaning elimination, removal, termination + French orientation, literally - indicating the direction, from Lat. Oriens, orientis - east) - is in psychiatry a violation of orientation in time, in the environment, in relation to one's own personality; noted against the background of various psychoses.

Allocate disorientation:

  • allopsychic - expressed by a violation of orientation only in the surrounding time, place, in relation to other persons;
  • amnestic - caused by a memory disorder;
  • autopsychic - related only to one's own personality, manifested in the form of the impossibility to name one's year of birth, age, profession, name, etc.;
  • delusional - manifested in the form of false ideas about the environment;
  • somatopsychic - related to the assessment of one's own body, its parts or internal organs.

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