HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eugen Bleuler, Emil Kraepelin, Dementia Praecox
23 Nov 2016
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May extend to physical symptoms (i. e. touch, taste) Might speak with words that seem to be entirely disconnected to people. Use words that have a private meaning to them. Holding pose for a long period of time. Hippocrates described a girl who in some cases said dreadful things had voices in her head ordering her to jump up and throw herself into wells and drown. Hare recency hypothesis explains 19th century epidemic and rarity of previous descriptions. He claims that schizophrenia is a very recent disorder. Kraepelin: various symptoms that had been classified as distinct disorder should be grouped together- dementia praecox. Bleurer: didn"t always start in adolescence nor result in dementia -proposed schizophrenia (split mental associations)(pulling apart of the mental strings) Considered negative symptoms far more important that positive symptoms. Europeans stayed closer to kraepelin"s view, americans drifted more towards bleuler.
