When the psychologist asks Darcey about her mother's recent death, she giggles and begins making the sign of the "cross" numerous times in the air. Darcey's speech also resembled a jumbled "word salad" as well as being frequently peppered with screams and obscenities. Her diagnosis is probably __________ schizophrenia

a. paranoid
b. borderline
c. catatonic
d. disorganized


D

Psychology

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