PSYCH 270 Lecture Notes - Medication Therapy Management, Schizophrenia, Family Therapy
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For exam need to know basic essence of personality disorder. False often bizarre beliefs that do not change despite evidence (rigid) Erotomanic: think people are in love with you when they are not. Grandeur: think you"re better than you actually are. Nihilistic: people think they are dead. Control: other people are controlling them. Thought insertion: can put thoughts inside your head. Thought withdrawal: someone can remove your thoughts, hallucinations. Sensory perception-like experiences that occur without an external stimulus. How hallucinations occur: direct stimulation (surgery, uncontrolled neural firing (seizures, reduced frontal cortex integration (fatigue, reduced external sensory input, meditation, drugs, fatigue, disorganized thinking. Loose associations: all sentences are fully formed, but they don"t have anything to do with each other. Word salad: may have full sentences, but the sentences don"t make sense. Neologism: words that don"t exist, disorganized behavior. Grossly disorganized beh catatonia: negative symptoms. Genetic: greater concordance in identical twins, genetic component.