PSYC 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Eugen Bleuler, Thought Disorder, Clang
18 Dec 2013
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Since everything that we perceived is finally filtered to us through the senses and limitations of our thought, it is fundamentally and inevitably impossible for us to know the reality of. If the sensory/propositional system is working properly, one"s perceptions will necessarily conform to the world of consensual reality. Eugen bleuler (swiss psychiatrist: the central problem was a loosening or disharmony among various mental processes, a split (schizen) in the mind"s (phren) normally integrated processes of affect and intellect, creating a condition he called schizophrenia. Bleuler, 4 primary symptoms responsible for the split of mental functions: loosening of associations. Thoughts and ideas are not coherently linked: ambivalence. Wanting two contradictory things at once and being unable to choose between them: autism. Total self-centeredness, reality is replaced by fantasy: affective disturbance. Emotional responses are inconsistent with actions: force the patient to adapt to chaotic mental life, the adaptations lead to other symptoms of schizophrenia:
