Psychology 2030A/B Chapter 13: Chapter 13
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Chapter 13 schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Characterized by a broad spectrum of cognitive and emotional dysfunctions including delusions and hallucinations, disorganized speech and behaviour and inappropriate emotions. Can disrupt persons perception, thought, speech and movement almost every aspect of daily functioning: complete recovery is rare. Emil kraepelin provided must enduring description and categorization of sch. T(cid:449)o of e(cid:373)il"s a(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:373)plish(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts a(cid:396)e (cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455) i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t: he combined several symptoms of insanity that had usually been viewed as reflecting separate and distinct disorders (catatonia) and hebephrenia (silly and immature emotionality) and paranoia (delusions of grandeuir etc) Included them under term dementia praecox: belie(cid:448)ed ea(cid:396)l(cid:455) o(cid:374)set at hea(cid:396)t of ea(cid:272)h diso(cid:396)de(cid:396) de(cid:448)elops i(cid:374)to (cid:862)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal (cid:449)eak(cid:374)ess(cid:863, distinguished dementia praecox from manic-depression illness, have early onset and poor outcome are characteristics. Concept of (cid:862)split(cid:863) (cid:373)i(cid:374)d i(cid:374)spi(cid:396)ed (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) (cid:271)ut i(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:396)(cid:396)e(cid:272)t use te(cid:396)(cid:373) of s(cid:272)hizoph(cid:396)e(cid:374)ia to (cid:373)ea(cid:374) split o(cid:396) (cid:373)ultiple pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)alit(cid:455) Identifying symptoms: nu(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:396) of (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396)s/s(cid:455)(cid:373)pto(cid:373)s that a(cid:396)e(cid:374)"t (cid:374)e(cid:272)essa(cid:396)il(cid:455) sha(cid:396)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) all people (cid:449)ho a(cid:396)e gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) this diag(cid:374)osis.