PSY 332 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Brief Psychotic Disorder, Schizophreniform Disorder, Delusional Disorder
9 May 2016
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Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders: dsm-5 included disorders, delusional disorder: previously called paranoid disorder, is a type of serious mental illness called a psychosis in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. The main feature of this disorder is the presence of delusions, which are unshakable beliefs in something untrue. People with delusional disorder experience non-bizarre delusions, which involve situations that could occur in real life, such as being followed, poisoned, deceived, conspired against, or loved from a distance. These delusions usually involve the misinterpretation of perceptions or experiences. In reality, however, the situations are either not true at all or highly exaggerated. Middle to late life, more common in women than men: brief psychotic disorder: a short-term illness with psychotic symptoms. Like schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder is a type of psychosis in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined.
