LOOSENING OF ASSOCIATIONS


Meaning of LOOSENING OF ASSOCIATIONS in English

Psychiatry.

a type of formal thought disorder characterized by shifts from one topic to another in ways that are obliquely related or completely unrelated, occurring as a common symptom of mania and schizophrenia. Also called derailment .

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .