PSYCH257 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bipolar Disorder, Brief Psychotic Disorder, Dementia Praecox

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH257
• Professor: annapolotskaia

Document Summary

E. bleuler: introduced the term schizophrenia ; a term derived from the greek words for split (skhizen) and mind (phren). Bleuler believed that the core of schizophrenia rests in an associative splitting of basic personality functions. Interview with j. nash and his son: https www. youtube. com/watch?v=sizs1nooejg (min 2) Schizophreniform disorder includes people who experience the symptoms of schizophrenia for fewer than six months. Schizoaffective disorder includes people who have symptoms of schizophrenia and who also exhibit the characteristics of mood disorders such as depression and bipolar affective disorder. Delusional disorder includes people with a persistent belief that is contrary to reality, in the absence of the other characteristics of schizophrenia. Brief psychotic disorder: at least 1 positive symptoms (delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech) lasting less than 1 month. Attenuated psychosis syndrome : at least 1 symptom of schizophreni, but the individual is aware that these are unusual experiences and are not typical for a healthy person.