PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Prescription Drug, Psychoanalytic Theory, Systematic Desensitization

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Heather Jenkin

Document Summary

During their most severe periods, people with schizophrenia live in a private inner world, preoccupied with the strange ideas and images that haunt them. The word itself means split (schizo) mind (phrenia). In this disorder, however, the mind is not split into multiple personalities. Rather, the mind has suffered a split from reality that shows itself in disturbed perceptions, disorganized thinking and speech, and diminished, inappropriate emotions. Schizophrenia is the chief example of a psychosis, a broad term for a break or split from reality. Schizophrenia- a psychological disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/ or diminished, inappropriate emotional expression. Schizophrenia patients with positive symptoms may experience hallucinations, talk in disorganized and deluded ways, and exhibit inappropriate laughter, tears, or rage. Those with negative symptoms may have toneless voices, expressionless faces, or mute and rigid bodies: people with schizophrenia sometimes have hallucinations they see, feel, taste, or smell things that exist only in their minds.