Well What Does That Mean? Quiz | Brain Teasers

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1. You start working on transcribing the notes and then come across your first puzzler: "... this patient I've described has a few clear issues and in this case treatment should start with SIGH COAT ERROR PEA rather than medication." Hmm, what might that fractured word be?

Answer: Psychotherapy

One way of describing psychotherapy is to define it as the treatment of psychiatric disorders through talking rather than medical intervention. Medical drugs may be prescribed as a complementary treatment. Forms of psychotherapy include writing, drama, artwork and music in addition to one-to-one talking and group sessions.

2. Next up is a section on historical treatments for patients: " ... it became fashionable in the 1940s and 1950s for surgical intervention. This often radically affected patients. I am referring to LAB OTTER ME which is basically surgery on the brain." Ouch! What is that word?

Answer: Lobotomy

A lobotomy was a form of psychosurgery involving surgical damage to typically the frontal lobes of the brain. Pioneering work during the 1930s rapidly led to mainstream use of the technique with patients often suffered negative effects and sometimes dying as a result.

The development of antipsychotic medicines helped to bring about the end of this procedure, however not before more than 70,000 people underwent the surgery in USA and Europe. One of the more famous patients was Rosemary Kennedy, sister of former President John F Kennedy.

Her lobotomy at the age of 23 left her permanently incapacitated. She died in 2005 aged 86.

3. Then you come across a paragraph on ideational mental activity. Eh? Then you remember it is basically the process of creating ideas: "The terms dereistic and ORE TEES TEAK thinking are often used interchangeably although they are differ ..." Hmm, what was going on in her head when she wrote that?

Answer: Autistic

There are a number of forms of thinking in a psychiatry context including autistic, dereistic and magical thinking. Autistic thinkers tend to be self-absorbed and focussed on their own inner world. Dereism emphasises a detachment from reality in the thinking process. Magical thinking is more the belief that your thoughts can be transformed into reality by thought alone.

4. Now the notes continue: " ... and we have the different kinds of DEAL YOU SHUN such as bizarre, persecutory, somatic and thought insertion." What is the word that fits this phrase?

Answer: Delusion

In a psychiatry context, delusion could be paraphrased as a mistaken belief persistently held despite compelling evidence proving it false. Delusions are found in many types of mental illness and are an important element in diagnosing some psychotic illnesses. Thought insertion, for example, is the belief that someone else is planting thoughts in your mind.

5. Another day's lecture and some more notes. "In this lecture we are looking at vulnerability and methods of gauging this in a client. Specialist tools, available to suitably qualified practitioners, include Gudjonsson SUD GESTURE BILLY TEA scales. We however are going to concentrate on the theoretical aspects." What word does her fractured word evoke or point you towards?

Answer: Suggestibility

Suggestibility is often associated with hypnotism and can be helpful in psychiatry treatment. The freedictionary.com defines psychological suggestibility as "a state, especially under hypnosis, in which a person will accept the suggestions of another person and act accordingly." The Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale is used to assess suggestibility during interrogation. This has implications, for example, in the justice system on the reliability of evidence obtained under interrogation.

6. The notes now stray on to medication: "... blood tests can assist when it comes to determining the appropriate drug or drugs to prescribe. For many drugs there is a TERROR POO DECK WHIN DOE outside of which the drug's effect is reduced." What could she mean?

Answer: Therapeutic window

For those affected by depression, this means that the psychiatrist might arrange to have a blood test done before prescribing an antidepressant. The therapeutic window can act as a guide on the likely effectiveness of a particular drug.

7. Reading the next section, it seems that we are getting a bit of history: "The STUCK HOME SINNED RUM gets its name from a 1973 European bank robbery. This is considered to be an example of traumatic bonding." What words (including a European capital) are hidden in the fractured words?

Answer: Stockholm syndrome

The Stockholm Syndrome is where a victim shows feelings of trust or affection for a captor in a kidnapping situation. Similar feelings can arise in other capture-bonding situations including, perhaps surprisingly, military basic training.

8. We seem to have moved on to symptoms of some psychological conditions: "PAR KNICKER TAX can sometimes be confused with acute myocardial infarctions (AMI). Common symptoms can include nausea, dizziness, shaking, and a racing and pounding heart. However AMI victims do not hyperventilate and the chest pain tends to be more general than localised." Hmm, what is this fearful fractured condition?

Answer: Panic attacks

Panic attacks can include an intense feeling of dread and, generally, a reaction out of all proportion to the situation. A series of panic attacks can become a panic disorder where the anticipation of further panic attacks has a negative effect on quality of life. Panic disorder often accompanies other serious psychiatric conditions.

An acute myocardial infarction is more commonly referred to as a heart attack.

9. Another garbled section from your friend's psychiatry lecture notes: "Sometimes called 'word salad', INN COY HEAR ANTS needs to be distinguished from speech difficulties caused by an aphasia." Does this one make sense to you? What is the confused word?

Answer: Incoherence

Incoherence is basically incomprehensible speech because of jumbled words or phrases. Aphasia, where there is a loss of ability to express or to understand ideas, is brought on by brain injury. Aphasia therefore typically affects speech, writing and reading abilities.

10. It's late and Pink Floyd's "Breathe" has just started up when you're startled by the shadow of a large bird swooping down the wall. You realise that it is only a fish mobile disturbed by a gust of wind. Time to finish off with one more page of notes: "On the question of false perceptions, the term 'REEF LAX HELL USING NAYS HUN' was coined by German psychiatrist Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum around 1866 and ..."

Answer: Reflex hallucination

The start of the question is not really an example of reflex hallucination. Listen to the start of the Pink Floyd track and it sounds like a crying bird swooping. Seeing a bird or the shadow of one on the wall is no doubt a reaction to hearing the music, however the shadow is real rather than imaginary and so an illusion rather than a hallucination has been experienced. Superglossary.com defines the term as stimulus in one sensory field leading to a hallucination in another sensory field. So probably not yet time to see a psychiatrist.

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Well What Does That Mean? Trivia Quiz

You have missed some psychiatry lectures but you've managed to borrow a friend's notes. She has unhelpfully FRACTURED certain psychiatry terms. Can you work them out with the help of her notes? Try saying it out loud first.

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