PSYB32H3 Chapter 11: CHAPS 11, 12, 13, 16 from 4TH EDITION
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The person withdraws from people and reality, often into a fantasy life of delusions and hallucinations. Misurelli a schizophrenic woman described in the blue box. Schiz usually appears in late adolescence or early adulthood, somewhat earlier for men than for women. Symptoms involve disturbances in several major areas: attention, thought, perception, motor behaviour, emotion, life functioning. Walter heinrichs suggested key to understanding schiz is to recognize its heterogeneity, at the empirical and conceptual levels noted that presentation, course and outcome of schiz are variable and diverse. Positive symptoms: positive symptoms: behavioural excesses, such as hallucinations and bizarre behaviour, disorganized speech/thought disorder: problems in organizing ideas and in speaking so that a listener can understand. Person unwilling recipient of bodily sensations/thoughts imposed by external agency. Person believes their thoughts are transmitted/broadcast so everyone knows. Person thinks their thoughts are stolen from them by external force. Believes feelings are controlled by external force. Believes behaviours are controlled by external force.
