Catalepsy is a condition characterised by psychomotor disturbances such as: In the course of catatonia, a tendency towards passivity can also manifest itself, reaching catalepsy. by refusing food, only to eat spontaneously when they see themselves alone, or by strenuously resisting body movements.Įven the stimuli of organic functions are actively resisted: the sick do not eat although they are hungry they forcibly withhold faeces and urine and so on. They react antagonistically (negativism) to the behaviour of those around them, e.g. uninterrupted repetition of sentences (‘broken record’).mutacism: difficulty on the part of the sufferer in pronouncing labial consonants.mannerism: the use of hyperbolic, overloaded and unnatural facial and body mimicry.
waxen flexibility: the possibility of forcing the subject to assume even uncomfortable physical positions for a certain period of time, as if they were wax statues.echolalia: the echoic repetition of the last words heard uttered by others.ecopraxia: the automatic imitation of acts that are seen to be performed.attitudes that are tiring to maintain over time, remaining in static ‘statue-like’ postures for a long time.Catatonia is a psychopathological syndrome with a dissociative basis, in which the subject’s actions become almost completely detached from rational and affective motivations, remaining locked in automatic, rigid, stereotyped attitudes that are resistant to external actionĬatatonic persons generally remain stationary in statuesque attitudes, silent and as if absorbed in themselves, with eyes closed, with ‘strange’ and incoherent facial expressions, or stiffened.
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