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loosening of associations
noun
Psychiatry.
- a type of formal thought disorder characterized by shifts from one topic to another in ways that are obliquely related or completely unrelated, occurring as a common symptom of mania and schizophrenia.
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“His verbalizations at that time were noted to be tangential with a loosening of associations,†wrote psychologist Elizabeth Teegarden during a court-mandated psychological review.
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The problem is often described as a “loosening of associations†in which, for example, words are chosen not because they make sense, but because the patient simply associates them with other words.
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