PSYCH 3331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Antipsychotic, Haloperidol, Assertive Community Treatment

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3331
• Professor: All

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Involved a sustained loss of contact with reality: unusual perceptions, odd thoughts, disturbed emotions, literally means (cid:498)split mind(cid:499, entirely unique from did, do not have multiple personalities. Who is affected: no sex differences, age 21 for men, 27 for women (for onset, high prevalence in low ses individuals. Symptoms (2 main groups: positive symptoms, negative symptoms, psychomotor symptoms. Positive symptoms: strongly held, fixed beliefs that have no basis in reality, persist despite contradictory evidence (cid:498)pathological excesses(cid:499, bizarre additions to a person"s behavior. Absence or reduction in expected behaviors, thoughts, feelings, and drives. Loss of or missing normal functions and responses. Tend to be more subtle, but more stable than positive symptoms. 2) blunted/flat affect some show almost no display of emotion. 3) loss of volition constantly feeling drained, uninterested, apathetic. 4) social withdrawal attend only to fantasies: catatonia immobility and muscular rigidity or excitement and.