PSYCH 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Schizophreniform Disorder, Alogia, Delusional Disorder
23 Mar 2016
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Psychosis: a disconnect from reality, involves disturbed thoughts, emoions or behaviors (speech/motor/percepion), and similar to efects from cafeine, sleep deprivaion, fever or solitary coninement. Benedict morel (1852) and demence precoce that develops during adolescence and is diferent in character from end-of-life breakdown. Emil kraepelin (1898) and demenia praecox; integraion of paranoia, catatonia and hebephrenia, assumed an organic cause. Eugen bleuler (1908), schizophrenia as a spliing of the mind, characterized by auism (exising in a self-contained world), associaion disturbances (logical thought disrupion), afect (bluning or inappropriate), avoliion/ambivalence, assumed biological eiology. Main historical idea: weakening of associaive thinking. Posiive symptoms: delusions (beliefs held with absolute certainty, that are impossible and unshakeable), hallucinaions (sensory experience without environmental input) Delusions of grandeur, persecuion, reference (seeing signs; illuminai), religious, thought broadcasing (own mind can be read), thought inserion, thought withdrawal (thoughts being stolen), somaic, erotomanic, unusual (capgras imposter-lover, cotard"s syndrome of body being dead)
