Table 1.
Concepts of mental operations and operators and some disorders.
| Term | Interpretation | Pathology |
|---|---|---|
| Perception | Uptake of information | Hallucinations |
| Expectation | Expectation of event | Obsessive mood |
| Thinking and thoughts | Mostly bound and expressed by words and phrases | Thought disorders |
| Memory | Storage and recall of information | Memory disorders |
| Emotions | Emotions, feelings (anger, fear or grief) | Affective disorders |
| Motives | Drives, desires, needs | Abulia |
| Plans | Intentions to act to achieve a situation or personal state | Delusional action plans |
| Behavioral programs | Motor pattern that are related to action | Behavioral disorders |
| Personality | Transsituational invariant behavioral disposition; typical affective- motivational characteristics of a person | Personality disorder |
| Self | Core area of the mental, largely unconscious | “Split self” |
| Ego | Conscious portion of the (operational) self | Ego disorders |
| Self-image (self concept/model) | Partly conscious scheme of the person about him/herself | Unstable, negative or positive self-image |
| Environmental image (concept-model of the external world) | Image of the mainly surrounding world of the person, the social environment such as the family, friends, etc. | (delusional) Image of the world |