PSY 262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Capgras Delusion, Schizophrenia, Solitude

• School: University of Hartford
• Department: Psychology - A&S
• Course: PSY 262
• Professor: Crowell Katherine

Document Summary

Falls on the severe end of the schizophrenia spectrum: disorders on the schizophrenia spectrum. Involves psychosis, impaired cognitive processes, usual or disorganized motor behavior, and uncommon behaviors affecting social interactions: symptoms of schizophrenia spectrum disorder, symptoms fall into 4 categories. Positive symptoms: added to the environment (ex. hallucinations) Psychomotor abnormalities: cognitive symptoms, negative symptoms, positive symptoms of schizophrenia, should be there but isn"t (ex. no emotion, delusions, hallucinations, disordered thinking, incoherent communication, bizarre behavior, symptoms range in severity, and may persist or fluctuate, poor insight. Failure to recognize symptoms as abnormal: delusions, false personal beliefs, consistently held despite evidence or logic. Lack of insight common: delusional themes, grandeur, control, thought broadcasting, thought withdrawal, persecution, and reference, paranoid ideation, often connected with persecutory delusions, capgras delusion, rare delusion, most common with brief forms of psychosis developing suddenly after. Belief in the existence of doubles" who replace significant others and emotionally distressing event: hallucinations, perceptions of a nonexistent or absent stimulus.