PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes -Auditory Hallucination, Waxy Flexibility, Twin
11 Apr 2013
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There is no main symptom of schizophrenia often combination. Several broad categories of symptoms: positive: behaviours that increase in someone with schizophrenia. Schizophrenic thinking is characterized by loose associations: the individual"s train of thought may consist of ideas that are often only loosely related to each other. Schizophrenic speech may be vague and abstract. Patients start making associations with a certain word and trail off from original intent. Delusion may be that person on tv is speaking to them. Thought broadcast belief that others can hear one"s thoughts. Thought withdrawal belief that the individual"s thought are being removed from his head before he can think them. Thought insertion belief that thoughts are being placed in the individuals head by others. Also can be new behaviours that emerge such as hallucinations perceptions of things that are not really there. Auditory hallucinations occur more often than visual hallucinations.
