PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Paranoid Personality Disorder, Psychotic Break, Social Skills

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Mary Theresa Howard

Document Summary

The lifetime risk is about 1 percent. Most frequently presented between the ages of 20 and 40. Men and women are at equal risk for it, although men display the symptoms earlier and more severely. Individuals are less likely to complete their education or maintain a job and are more likely to develop other psychiatric problems such as depression or substance abuse. The lack of historical evidence seems to suggest that schizo was extremely rare until the late. There are two types: positive presence of symptoms. Hallucinations, thought and speech disorder, psychosis, catatonic behaviour (rigid movements: negative absence of symptoms or normal behaviour. Sparse speech, withdrawal, avolition (no will of their own) and anhedonia ( no emotions at all, especially not pleasure or joy) Based on dsm criteria, combination of symptoms. Dsm puts weight on certain symptoms voices commenting on behaviour and bizarre delusions. Symptoms aren"t exclusive to schizo: mood congruent disorder also has delusions.