PSYC496AV Lecture Notes - Dementia Praecox, Pathological Jealousy, Delusional Disorder

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Concept of s by kraeplin and blueler. Kreplain= dementia praecox; the early term for s in 1898. he diff btwn manic depressive illness and dementia praecox. Dementia praecox included several diagnostic concepts- dementia paranoids, catatonia and hebephrenia. These disorders were symptomatically diverse bit but kraeplin believed they shared a common core. Therefore he thought the name was no longer good and changed it to s. from greek work schizein meaning to split and phren meaning mind. But he faced a conceptual problem cuz symptoms could vary w/ each person. The concept b adopted was the breaking of associative threads . For b associative threads joined not only words but thoughts. Thus goal oriented efficient thinking and communication were possible only when these hypothetical structures were intact. Blocking- an apparently total loss of a train or thought as a complete disruption of the persons associate threads. Suggests that rates of s have fallen sharply since the 1960.

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