PSYC3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eugen Bleuler, Dementia Praecox, Emil Kraepelin
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Eugene bleuler (1911) (cid:862) (cid:272)hizophre(cid:374)ia: four core disturbances, affect, ambivalence, associations, preference for fantasy over reality. Myths about schizophrenia: people with schizophrenia are dangerous, people with schizophrenia have split personalities. Industrial nations: disproportionate % are lower ses: direct treatment costs, loss of productivity, public assistance costs, shorter average lifespan. Dr frese: first breakdown: 25, several classic symptoms including psychosis and paranoia, multiple hospitalisations, eventually qualified as a clinical psychologist. John nash: mathematical genius, awarded nobel prize in economics in 1994. Exclusion: relationship to autism spectrum, disorder or a communication disorder. Disturbances in form of thought: disturbances in production and organisation of thought - revealed by peculiarities of verbal expression, loosening of associations, neologism, perseveration, word salad, circumstantiality, tangentiality. Disturbances of perception: hallucinations - percept like experience occurring in the absence of appropriate stimulus and not under voluntary control, auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory, tactile. Disturbances in affect: expression of outward emotion, restricted affect, blunted affect, flat affect.
