PSYC 3390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Asociality, Family Therapy, Twin

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Meghan Mc Murtry

Document Summary

Psychosis and psychotic psychotic = presence of hallucinations and/or delusions. Schizophrenia a type of psychosis with disturbed thought, language, and behaviour: psychosis and schizophrenia are heterogeneous, no more subtypes, schizo = split, split from reality, from various functions of the brain, not split. Majority of people with schizophrenia live in poverty and are unemployed: not highly likely to commit violent crime. Mu t ha(cid:448)e 2 or (cid:373)ore positi(cid:448)e or (cid:374)egati(cid:448)e or disorga(cid:374)ized sy(cid:373)pto(cid:373)s for (cid:862)sig(cid:374)ifi(cid:272)a(cid:374)t portio(cid:374)(cid:863) of o(cid:374)e (cid:373)o(cid:374)th: positive symptoms: Presence of actively abnormal behaviour, too much of or distortion of normal behaviour. 50-70% of individuals with schizophrenia will experience: delusions = disorder of thought content. Have sensory experience even though not actually there. Can involve any or all senses: negative symptoms: Apathy, emotional/social withdrawal, great reduction (poverty) in thought or speech. Avolition (or apathy) inability to initiate and persist in activities. Alogia inability to speak or a speech disturbance. Affective flattening non-responsive facial expressions and verbal language.