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What Is Loose Thinking?
What Is Loose Thinking?
Sarah Jenkins••6 min read
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(lūs ă-sō'sē-ā'shŭnz) A manifestation of a severe thought disorder
thought disorder
Types of thought disorder include derailment, pressured speech, poverty of speech, tangentiality, verbigeration and thought blocking. Formal thought disorder is a disorder of the form of thought rather than of content of thought that covers hallucinations and delusions.
whereby the patient's responses do not relate to the interviewer's questions or one paragraph, sentence, or phrase is not logically connected to those that occur before or after.
What does loose thinking mean?
A thought or communication pattern disorder characterized by loose or odd connections between ideas. A person having this disorder is unable to express a set of well-structured, logically related ideas.
What is tangential thinking?
Tangentiality refers to a disturbance in the thought process that causes the individual to relate excessive or irrelevant detail that results in never reaching the essential point of a conversation or the desired answer to a question.
Sarah Jenkins is a veteran tech journalist with over 12 years of experience covering artificial intelligence, mobile innovations, and digital ethics. Her insights have appeared in leading technology publications worldwide.
