PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Psychosis, Delusional Disorder, Pseudobulbar Affect
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1% of the population is affected by schizophrenia. Unlike other disorders, it affects across culture equally (no different for other cultures). Not a rare disorder, pretty common as far as psychopathologies go. Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder, it is a psychosis. An individual that is not experiencing the reality around them the same one someone not psychotic does (a loss of touch with reality). Psychosis usually comes in 1 of 2 categories of disorders: Schizophrenia (and schizophrenic like disorders aka delusional disorders) Pervasive developmental disorders (not going to focus in this class) One of the hallmarks of schizophrenia is hallucinations. Hard to diagnose in childhood because children do make things up like imaginary friends. Schizophrenia is a class of disorders marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and a deterioration of adaptive behaviour. Adaptive behaviour - your ability to change in response to a new environment. Key feature: psychotic symptoms profound disturbance in thoughts, reality- testing, and affect.
