PHIL 320 Chapter Notes -Tardive Dyskinesia, Eugen Bleuler, Chlorpromazine
26 Sep 2013
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Change in term to psychoses in the 1980"s. Thought to be harder to address using things like counselling as more serious break from reality. Because occurs cross culturally, think strong biological underpinning. Splitting in schizophrenia involves a breaking down of thought processes. Everything still functions comp. to dissociative identity disorder parts that don"t function. Disorganised symptoms can be considered positive symptoms depends on approach. Avolition also evident in basal ganglia disorders. Originally thought that paranoid subtype had a better prognosis. Echolalia repeating what is said to them. Echopraxia repeating what is done to them. Hints of problems in childhood eg. don"t smile as much as other children -> schizoid personality-> onset (diagnostic event) -> Patients have a gradual onset then continue to have problems. Patients have a sudden onset then mild or little long term problems. Eg. if high achiever before hand, better off than if struggling before. Kraepelin organic cause, damage to brain structure.
