PSYC 2030U Lecture 7: Lesson 7- Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
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Early figures in diagnosing schizophrenia: emil kraepelin (1899): distinct disorders from combining several symptoms of insanity: Perspectives on the concept of schizophrenia: eugen bleuler (1908) Breaking of associative threads: eugen bleuler was a swiss psychiatrist and was the first to introduce the term. Schizophrenia : schizophrenia derives from the greek word split=skhizen and mind=phren, bleuler believed that the core of schizophrenia rests in an associative of basic personality functions. Identifying symptoms: several behaviours or symptoms not shared by all people given diagnosis of schizophrenia, clusters of symptoms identified. 1. positive symptoms: active manifestations of abnormal behaviour, or an excess or distortion of normal behaviour, and include delusions and hallucinations, 50-70% people with schizophrenia experience hallucinations, delusions or both, delusions. A disorder of thought content (thinking/ cognitive thought): Delusion of grandeur (person thinks they"re important) Delusions of persecution (person thinks they"re being attacked by something) Grandeur and persecution can go together (they"re being attacked because they"re important: hallucinations.
