PSY 223 Lecture : Chapter 10 - Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia: schizophrenia is among the most puzzling & disabling clinical syndromes. Schizophrenia touches every facet of an afflicted person"s life: acute episodes are characterized by delusions, hallucinations, illogical thinking, incoherent speech & bizarre behaviour. Between episodes, people may still be unable to think clearly and may lack appropriate emotional responses to people & events in their lives. Four primary features or symptoms: associations, affect, ambivalence, autism. Historical conceptions of schizophrenia: kurt schneider, first-rank symptoms, central to diagnosis, Hallucinations and delusions: second-rank symptoms, found in other. Psychoses and in some non-psychotic disorders eg. disturbances in mood and confused thinking: contemporary diagnostic practices. Dsm-iv-psychotic behaviours must be present at some point during the course of the disorder and signs of the disorder must be present for at least six months: prevalence & cost of schizophrenia, 1% of population involving ongoing social problems.
