Cognitive disorders are
A. IntellectualizationB. Depersonilization
C. Dementia
D. Delirium
E. multiple personality disorder
The Answer is. (C) Dementia ; (D) Delirium
• Cognitive disorders are characterized by syndromes
of Delirium, Dementia and Amnesia
• Intellectualization is an ego defense mechanism, defined as excessive use
of intellectual processes (‘logic’) to avoid affective expression (‘emotion’).
• Depersonalization is characterized by alteration in perception or
experience of self so that the feeling of one’s own reality is temporarily lost
or changed. It is an ‘as if ‘ phenomena.
