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thought alienation

A Dictionary of Nursing | 2008 | 248 words | Copyright

thought alienation (thawt) n. a symptom of psychosis, especially schizophrenia, in which patients feel that their own thoughts are in some way no longer within their control by being, for example, removed or replaced by an outside force or agency.

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