Carlos Morra and Ernst Franzek: Psychopathological Symptoms

Paraphasia

Definition: Incorrect substitution of a word for another existing one (Ceccherini-Nelli and Crow 2003).

Exploration: The presence of paraphasia can be established by interviewing the  patient.

Reference:

Ceccherini-Nelli A, Crow TJ. Disintegration of the components of language as the path to a revision of Bleuler's and Schneider's concepts of schizophrenia. Linguistic disturbances compared with first-rank symptoms in acute psychosis. Br J Psychiatry 2003; 182: 233-40.

January 16, 2020