PSY3032 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dementia Praecox, Demonic Possession, List Of Dragon Ball Characters
29 Oct 2018
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Lecture 11: schizophrenia: 1988: world in aids epidemic, a lot of fear about what this could mean for public health, and nature thought schizophrenia was worse! Onset in late teens/early adulthood, life long consequences. Really strikes at the core of who we are and how we make sense of the world, effecting ability to distinguish between what is real and not real: cat images: louis wayne. Eventually developed schizophrenia- can see as illness progressed, how the perceptions of his world changed. Cat formed into abstract patterns and demonic forms- this is how he was now viewing the world. Imagine how difficult it would be to go about life when life is so altered. History: ha(cid:448)e distur(cid:271)ed per(cid:272)eptio(cid:374)s of the (cid:449)orld: rea(cid:272)t i(cid:374) (cid:862)odd(cid:863) (cid:449)a(cid:455)s. we thi(cid:374)k the(cid:455) are strange and crazy, thought of as a form of demonic possession. Find hole drilled into skull to let evil demons out of brain: 1800s: took a more medical/scientific approach.
