PSYC 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Psychosis, Word Salad, Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia: a psychological disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished, inappropriate emotional expression. The word itself means split (schizo) mind (phrenia) Schizophrenia is the chief example of a psychotic disorder, which is marked by irrationality, distorted perceptions, and lost contact with reality. With treatment and a supportive environment, over 40% of people with schizophrenia will have periods of a year or more with normal life experience. But just 1 in 7 of those diagnosed will make a complete and enduring recovery. Hallucinations: seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, smelling things that exist only in the mind. Word salad (senseless speech) and a breakdown in selective attention. Flat effect: emotionless, a state of no apparent feeling. Impaired theory of mind: difficulty reading other peoples" facial emotions and states of mind. Emotional deficiencies occur early in illness and have a genetic basis. Innappropriate motor behavior, with motionless catatonia or senseless, compulsive actions. Chronic schizophrenia: slow developing, poor prognosis, social withdrawal (a negative.
