PSYC 3604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Psychosis, Persecutory Delusion, Schizoaffective Disorder
27 Mar 2014
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Goals for today"s class - have the rest of the notes in my tablet: chapter 11: schizophrenia. How do we understand and classify schizophrenia and the other psychotic. What are the characteristics of schizophrenia and the other psychotic. : a class of psychological disorders where reality contact (the ability to successfully interact with one"s environment) is impaired. When you loses the contact with reality when you experience what ppl does not experience. Delusions or prominent hallucinations, with the hallucinations occurring in the absence of insight into their pathological nature. Or, could also include prominent hallucinations that the individual realizes are hallucinatory experiences. An even broader definition would also include other positive symptoms of schizophrenia (i. e. disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behaviour). Psychotic when you experience delusions or hallucinations. The client may recognized that their delusions/hallucinations are wrong but some have poor insight and might be resistant to accepting evidence and continue to hold on their delusions/hallucinations.
