HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Eugen Bleuler, Emil Kraepelin, Dementia Praecox
18 Oct 2016
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Anhedonia (inability to experience pleasure; may extend to physical - i. e. taste, touch) Alogia (severely reduced speech, poverty of content) Term of schizophrenia wasn"t invented till 1908. There"s something in the way that the society changes that led to the emergence of this disease. Kraepelin: various symptoms that had been classified as distinct disorders should be grouped together dementia praecox. Bleuler: didn"t always start in adolescence nor result in dementia proposed schizophrenia (split mental associations) Considered negative symptoms far more important than positive symptoms. Europeans stayed closer to kraepelin"s view, americans drifted more towards bleuler. Schizophrenia is not a single disease, think of it like cancer, many specific reasons. ". Elimination of subtypes (paranoid, catatonic, etc ) low reliability, poor validity (predicting outcome). Now a person must have at least one positive symptom; changes the profile of the disease. Combines positive symptoms of schizophrenia with mood disturbances (mania or depression). People described as being prone to isolation, loneliness.
