PSYC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dementia Praecox, Psychosis, Waxy Flexibility

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 241
• Professor: Jessica Stanley

Document Summary

Psychotic disorder characterized by major disturbances in thought, emotion, and. Disordered thinking in which ideas are not logically related. Usually appears in late adolescence or early adulthood; sometimes childhood. People with schizophrenia typically have a number of acute episodes of their symptoms. Between episodes, they often have less severe but still very debilitating symptoms. Refers to the presence of unusual/ odd symptoms. Objects, people, events given personal significance (eg. the radio. Belief that someone is in love with them. The doctrine that nothing actually exists or that existence or values are. C: i didn"t have any legs to begin with. So i would imagine that if i was a fast runner, i"d. Client: well, you see, i have to leave the hospital. I"m supposed to have an operation on my legs, you know. And it come to be pretty sickly that i don"t want to keep my legs.