Derailment (thought disorder)

In psychiatry, derailment (also known as loosening of association, asyndesis, asyndetic thinking, knight's move thinking, entgleisen, disorganised thinking) categorises any speech comprising sequences of unrelated or barely related ideas; the topic often changes from one sentence to another. == Disorder == In a mild manifestation, this thought disorder is characterized by slippage of ideas further and further from the point of a discussion.

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