PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Factitious Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia
28 Jun 2018
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module 89: schizophrenia
Schizophrenia: a mental disorder characterized by disorganized thoughts, lack of contact with
reality and sometimes a hallucinations , inappropriate emotion, emotions is split from reality,
psychosis: loss of contact with reality
Delusions: blatantly false beliefs that are frilly held despite evidence to be contrary
loose associating or derailment: a common thought disorder of schizophrenia characterized by
rapid shifts from one topic to another
hallucinations: imagined sights sounds or other sensory events experienced as if they were real.
a sensory experience in the absence of a sensory stimulus.
catatonia: extreme psychomotor symptoms of schizophrenia,including catatonic stupor catatonic
rigidity and catatonia posturing. unusual or bizarre behaviours or postures.
antipsychotic drugs: medications that help remove the symptoms of schizophrenia.
positive symptoms: things that are abnormally present, hallucinations, delusions, bizarre
behaviour
negative symptoms: things that are abnormally absent, flat emotion, inability to concentrate,
poor memory and problem solving
DSM-5 diagnosis
-must have 2 of these 5 and one must be from the first thing
-1.delusion
-2.hallucinations
-3. disorganized speech
-4. disorganized o catatonic behaviour
-5. negative.
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explanations for schizophrenia
diathesis-stress model: biological predisposition plus negative event
biological correlates: excessive dopamine activity
understanding schizophrenia
brain abnormalities: shrinking cortex, enlargement of fluid filled ventricles
module 90;other disorders
somatic symptoms and related disorders: excessive thought feelings, and behaviours related to
somatic symptoms
dissociative disorder: a psychological disorder characterized by major or loss of memory
without a clear physical cause: types of include dissociative amnesia (unable to remembers
important informations about a dramatic event) ; dissociative fugue (feeling detached from their
body) and dissociative identity disorder (two or more distinct personalities)
illness anxiety disorders: preoccupied with having an illness despite no psychical symptoms
conversion disorder: person develops symptoms suggestive of neurological damage, despite
medical tests, indication no abnormalities
factitious disorders: person takes on physical or psychological symptoms to adopt a patient role
module 91: treatment in todays world
psychotherapy: a treatment system in which a client and therapist use words and acts to
overcome the clients psychological difficult
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