PSYC-1105EL Chapter Notes - Chapter 15.4: Disorganized Schizophrenia, Paranoid Schizophrenia, Dsm-5
10 Apr 2017
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Schizophrenia: a brain disease that causes the person to experience significant breaks from reality, a lack of integration of thoughts and emotions, and problems with attention and memory. Active phase: people typically experience delusional thoughts, hallucinations, or disorganized patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviour. Residual phase: in which people"s predominant symptoms have disappeared or lessened considerably, and they may simply be withdrawn, have trouble concentrating, and generally lack motivation. Hallucinations: alterations in perception, such that a person hears, sees, smells, feels, or tastes something that does not actually exist, except in that person"s own mind. Delusions: beliefs that are not based on reality (at least from the perspective of the person"s general culture) Disorganized behaviour: describes the considerable difficulty people with schizophrenia may have completing the tasks of everyday life. Subtypes of schizophrenia that are now no longer practiced, according to the dsm-5. Disorganized schizophrenia: symptoms include thoughts, speech, behaviour, and emotion that are poorly integrated and incoherent.
