loose associations

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Related to loosening of associations: flight of ideas, tangentiality, poverty of thought
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loose as·so·ciations

n. disociación de ideas.
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Countering the current emphases on neurophysiological paradigms in theories of emotion and psychosis and on positive symptoms, international contributors from diverse theoretical backgrounds reprise Bleuler's concepts of 'emotionally-charged complexes' and 'loosening of associations' in schizophrenia in offering their therapeutic models, e.g., working with negative affect as an expression of chronic social defeat.