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May 15, 2023 · Word salad is a term used to describe a confused or meaningless mixture of words and phrases when speaking. Word salads can be found in various contexts but are especially common among people with certain mental health conditions or neurological disorders such as schizophrenia or dementia.
Feb 11, 2022 · Disorganized speech is also known as “formal thought disorder” since language is the primary way to detect changes in your thought patterns. What is disorganized speech? Disorganized speech is...
Dec 20, 2022 · “Word salad” is a term used to describe a severe form of disorganized thinking and speaking. It occurs in people with serious psychiatric or neurological conditions, such as dementia, bipolar...
- Traci Pedersen
Mar 31, 2022 · Disorganized speech may be subtle or hard to notice at first or may be a more extreme expression of mixed, incoherent sounds and sentences referred to as “word salad.”
Aug 13, 2019 · The metaphorical expression word salad (or word-salad) refers to the practice of stringing together words that have no apparent connection to one another—an extreme case of jumbled speech or disorderly writing. Also called (in psychology) paraphrasia. Psychiatric clinicians use the term word salad to refer to a rare form of disorganized speech:
- Richard Nordquist
Apr 19, 2018 · APA Dictionary of Psychology. disorganized speech. Updated on 04/19/2018. incoherent speech. This may be speech in which ideas shift from one subject to another seemingly unrelated subject, sometimes described as loosening of associations.
Apr 18, 2018 · Like any field, psychiatry has its own collection of terminology. Some of it is self-explanatory, but some of it isn’t. I believe that knowing the jargon helps to narrow the power gap between health care providers and patients, so I put together this glossary of common psychiatric terms.
