PSYC 385 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Brief Psychotic Disorder, Psychosis, Schizophreniform Disorder
19 Oct 2015
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Chapter 13: schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders. Search for what is schizophrenia? is complicated by subtypes: different presentations and combinations of symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, and disorders of speech, cognition, emotion and socialization. Kraepelin thought these symptoms shared similar underlying features and included them under the term dementia praecox. Kreapelin believed an early onset develops into a mental weakness : distinguished dementia praecox from manic-depressive illness (bipolar) Sc is a number of behaviours or symptoms that aren"t necessarily shared by all people who are given this diagnosis: researchers have identified clusters of symptoms that make up sc. Positive symptoms: positive symptoms: obvious signs of psychosis, which include disturbing experiences of delusions and hallucinations. 50-70% people with sc experience delusions, hallucinations, or both. Delusions: delusion/disorder of thought content: belief that would be seen by most members of society as a misrepresentation of reality, called the basic characteristic of madness , there are delusions of grandeur, delusions of persecution.
