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Disorganization

Deutsch: Desorganisation / Español: Desorganización / Português: Desorganização / Français: Désorganisation / Italian: Disorganizzazione

Disorganization in the psychology context refers to a state of mental or behavioral dysfunction characterized by a lack of structure, coherence, or order. This Condition can manifest in various ways, such as disorganized thinking, behavior, speech, and emotional responses, often impacting an individual's ability to function effectively in daily life.

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Disorganized attachment

Disorganized attachment (Disoriented attachment) refers to a relationship in which infants don’t seem to understand what’s happening when they are separated and later reunited with their mothers.

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Disorganized behavior

Disorganized behavior refers to a behavior that involves physical actions that do not appear to be goal directed, such as maintaining unusual body positions, pacing excitedly, or taking off one’s clothes in public.

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Disorganized schizophrenia

Disorganized schizophrenia refers to Schizophrenia marked by incoherence, grossly disorganized behavior, bizarre thinking, and flat or grossly inappropriate emotions. It is a type of Schizophrenia characterized by a particularly severe deterioration of adaptive behavior. Also prominent charecteristics are disorganized speech and behavior and a flat or inappropriate affect. Likewise, the style of talking is incoherent and lack of typical logical patterns.

Disorganized speech

Disorganized speech refers to a style of speaking seen in individuals with schizophrenia that includes mimicking, disconnected or incoherent speech patterns, and/or the invention of new words

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Disorganized type of schizophrenia

Disorganized type of schizophrenia refers to the type of Schizophrenia featuring disrupted speech and behavior, disjointed delusions and hallucinations, and silly or flat affect.

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Disorganized-Disoriented attachment

Disorganized-Disoriented attachment refers to a type of insecure attachment characterized by dazed and contradictory behaviors toward an attachment figure.

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Disorganized/Disoriented attachment

Disorganized/Disoriented attachment refers to an insecure infant/caregiver bond characterized by the infant’s dazed appearance on reunion or a tendency to first seek and then abruptly avoid the caregiver

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