Thought withdrawal
Delusional belief that thoughts have been taken out of one's mind
In psychiatry, thought withdrawal is the delusional belief that thoughts have been 'taken out' of the patient's mind, and the patient has no power over this.[1] It often accompanies thought blocking. The patient may experience a break in the flow of their thoughts, believing that the missing thoughts have been withdrawn from their mind by some outside agency. This delusion is one of Schneider's first rank symptoms for schizophrenia. Because thought withdrawal is characterized as a delusion, according to the DSM-IV TR it represents a positive symptom of schizophrenia.[2]
See also
- Thought insertion
- Thought broadcasting
References
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Delusional disorders
- Cotard's syndrome
- Cryptic pregnancy
- Delusional companion syndrome
- Erotomania
- Folie à deux (Shared delusional disorder)
- Grandiose delusions
- Ideas and delusions of reference
- Idée fixe
- Clinical lycanthropy
- Monothematic delusion
- Paranoid anxiety
- Persecutory delusion
- Reduplicative paramnesia
- Somatoparaphrenia
- Thought broadcasting
- Thought insertion
- Thought withdrawal
- Truman Show delusion
misidentification
parasitosis
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