Question 52 · LEK · Thinking

Mantism is:

  1. A. total block of the train of thought that has been already slowed down.
  2. B. no verbal response from the patient despite direct commands and encouraging.
  3. C. burdensome feeling of the excess of spontaneously occurring trains of thought or topics, usually disturbing and expressed in the form of limited fluency, clarity and content of speech.
  4. D. persistent repetition of a single action.
  5. E. repetition of words or consonants that do not form a meaningful entity, but are connected only by a similarity of sounds.
Hint

Mantism is a disturbance of the stream of thought that the patient experiences subjectively as having too many thoughts at once.

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