CRIM 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Major Depressive Disorder, Mental Disorder, Alogia
2 Dec 2014
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Crim 103 - lect 7 - mental disorders and crime. Overrep. of mental disorders in prison due to lack of facilities snicker/laugh when he enters room; occasionally hears voices, has idea that the crim faculty is actually a spy program likely diagnosed w/ schizophrenia. The dsm-v importance of diagnosis: (1) communication w/ other doctors (2) understand the illness, prediction, risks (3) treatment (4) risk management: dsm-v is standard guidebook for clinicians, is a classification system. What is hallucination? perception in the absence of a stimulus that is believed to be genuine can involve any of the 5 senses: auditory- most common, partic when person hears 2+ voices conversing, visual, olfactory, gustatory, tactile. Disorganized speech include things like: derailment - jumping topics, tangentiality - answering q in unrelated way, incoherence - speech that is incomprehensible, must be severe enough to substantially impair human function in order to be considered schizo.
