A patient has been diagnosed with schizophrenia.During a recent interview,he shows the nurse a picture of a man holding a decapitated head.He describes this picture as horrifying but then laughs loudly at the content.This behavior is a display of:

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This type of communication illustrates Wernicke's or receptive aphasia.The person can hear sounds and words but cannot relate them to previous experiences.Speech is fluent,effortless,and well articulated,but it has many paraphasias (wor

A Patient Has Been Diagnosed with Schizophrenia