OUTLINE

•DEFINITION OF THOUGHT

•DISTURBANCES OF THOUGHT STREAM

•DISTURBANCES OF THOUGHT FORM

•DISTURBANCES OF THOUGHT CONTENT 

•DISTURBANCES OF THOUGHT POSSESSION

•MANAGEMENT

•CONCLUSION

•REFERENCES

DEFINITION OF THOUGHT

Thought (or thinking) is  process in which ideas, memories, imagination, pictures are manipulated through formation of concepts to solve problems.

Speech is the expression of thoughts in the form of sounds produced by the mouth and associated organs.

Thought can be assessed through speech.