Clanging

In psychology and psychiatry, clanging refers to a mode of speech characterized by association of words based upon sound rather than concepts. For example, this may include compulsive rhyming or alliteration without apparent logical connection between words. This is associated with the irregular thinking apparent in psychotic mental illnesses (e.g. schizophrenia).^[1]

Clanging refers specifically to behavior that is situationally inappropriate. While a poet rhyming is not evidence of mental illness, disorganized speech that impedes the patient's ability to communicate is a disorder in itself, often seen in schizophrenia.^[2]

References

↑ Peralta, Victor; Cuesta, Manuel J.; de Leon, Jose (March 1992). "Formal thought disorder in schizophrenia: A factor analytic study". Comprehensive Psychiatry 33 (2): 105–110. doi:10.1016/0010-440X(92)90005-B. PMID 1544294.
↑ Covington MA, He C, Brown C, Naçi L, McClain JT, Fjordbak BS, Semple J, Brown J (Sep 2005). "Schizophrenia and the structure of language: the linguist's view". Schizophr Res. 77 (1): 85–98. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2005.01.016.

Symptoms and signs: Speech and voice / Symptoms involving head and neck (R47–R49, 784)

Aphasias	Acute Aphasias Expressive aphasia Receptive aphasia Conduction aphasia Anomic aphasia Global aphasia Transcortical sensory aphasia Transcortical motor aphasia Mixed transcortical aphasia Progressive Aphasias Progressive nonfluent aphasia Semantic dementia Logopenic progressive aphasia Speech disturbances Speech disorder Developmental verbal dyspraxia/‎Apraxia of speech Auditory verbal agnosia Dysarthria Schizophasia Aprosodia/Dysprosody Specific language impairment Thought disorder Pressure of speech Derailment Clanging Circumstantiality

Communication disorders	Developmental dyslexia/Alexia Agnosia Astereognosis Prosopagnosia Visual agnosia Gerstmann syndrome Developmental coordination disorder/Apraxia Ideomotor apraxia Dyscalculia/Acalculia Agraphia

Voice disturbances	Dysphonia/Aphonia Bogart–Bacall syndrome

Nose	Post-nasal drip Epistaxis

Mouth	Orofacial pain Toothache Galvanic pain Barodontalgia Fremitus Tooth mobility Bruxism Trismus Ageusia Hypogeusia Dysgeusia Parageusia Hypergeusia Xerostomia Halitosis Drooling Hypersalivation

Neck	Neck mass Cervical lymphadenopathy

Other	Headache Auditory processing disorder Otalgia Velopharyngeal inadequacy Velopharyngeal insufficiency Hypersensitive gag reflex Jaw claudication

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Clanging

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