The sentence John says to his mother, “I will rake the
leaves this afternoon. Let’s leave soon for the store. We can store the leaves
in the basement.”, is an example of loosening of associations.
The discourse comprising of a sequence of unrelated or only
remotely related ideas is a type of thought disorder called derailment or also
known as loosening of association.
There are three kinds of loosening of associations, namely:
Derailment – comprised of odd tangential associations between
ideas
Talking past the point – the patient skirts
around point of discussion even though he seems close to it
<span>Verbigeration – the senseless repetition of
phrases of sounds in the patient’s speech</span>
