Why Speech Patterns Can Be Use in Diagnosing Psychiatric Disorders?

You see a typical daytime show wherein the host prods a woman about her romantic attachment to her pen pal in jail. She asks several questions to gain more details on their love affair but the questions are almost always vaguely answered like “He is nice to Me.” or “I can’t wait to receive his letters.” and in a way that has no obvious purpose. This may not be intellectually stimulating and may compel you to change the channel but if you take a more observant look at her speech patterns will realize that it reveals problems in her thinking.

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