Stilted speech

In psychiatry, stilted speech or pedantic speech[1] is a symptom exhibited through a person's communication[2] of a thought disorder[3] in schizophrenia[4] indicated by speech content that is "inappropriately pompous, legalistic, philosophical, or quaint".[5]

This form of symptom occurs less occasionally, or is present at relatively lower levels in cases of schizophrenia than a certain number of other symptoms of the psychosis (Adler et al 1999).[6] This element of cognitive disorder is also exhibited as a symptom in the narcissistic personality disorder (Akhtar & Thomson 1982).[7] (There is a non-agreement of definition of psychophenomonology within the discipline of psychiatry, e.g. published sources provide definitions that are "various and sometimes conflicting (Rule 2005)" (Andreasen 1979).[8] [9])

Stilted speech (without comorbid psychotic features) may also be present in some patients with schizotypal personality disorder or autism spectrum disorders, as a kind of stereotypic behavior.

In its more common usage, "stilted speech" is a term used to describe overly-formal, unnatural-sounding speech.

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References

  1. ↑ McKenna P.J., Oh T.M. (2012.) Schizophrenic Speech: Making Sense of Bathroots and Ponds that Fall in Doorways, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-00905-8
  2. ↑ Michel Hersen Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment: Personality assessment - 688 pages John Wiley and Sons, 2004 Retrieved 2012-01-12 ISBN 0-471-41612-6
  3. ↑ Victor Peralta,Manuel J. Cuesta,Jose de Leon Title:Formal thought disorder in schizophrenia: A factor analytic study - Publication:Comprehensive Psychiatry Elsevier March–April 1992 Copyright © 1992, Elsevier Retrieved 2012-01-12
  4. ↑ doi:10.1016/j.schres.2005.01.016 Retrieved 2012-01-12
  5. ↑ Peter F. Liddle, Royal College of Psychiatrists Disordered mind and brain: the neural basis of mental symptoms - 301 pages RCPsych Publications, 2001 Retrieved 2012-01-12 ISBN 1-901242-65-X
  6. ↑ Jeffrey A. Lieberman, T. Scott Stroup, Diana O. Perkins, American Psychiatric Publishing The American Psychiatric Publishing textbook of schizophrenia - 435 pages American Psychiatric Pub, 2006 Retrieved 2012-01-12 ISBN 1-58562-191-9
  7. ↑ S.Akhtar and J.Anderson Thomson - "Overview :Narcissistic personality Disorder" American Journal of Psychiatry 139:1 Retrieved 2012-01-12
  8. ↑ Ashley Rule - The Psychiatrist (2005) 29: 462–464 "Ordered thoughts on thought disorder" © 2012 The Royal College of Psychiatrists Retrieved 2012-01-12
  9. ↑ Nancy C. Andreasen 1979 "Thought, Language and communication disorders" Arch Gen Psychiatry 36 Retrieved 2012-01-12
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