PSYC 3406 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Assertive Community Treatment, Schizoaffective Disorder, Chlorpromazine
16 Oct 2018
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Loosening of associations : flow of thoughts that is vague, unfocused and illogical. Neologisms : invented new words that aren"t in language ii. Inappropriate affect : person"s emotional response doesn"t match social cues and context e: active phase: period during which symptoms are most prominent. Positive symptoms : exaggerations or distortions of normal thoughts, emotions, behavior i: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, catatonic behavior: abnormality of movement and behavior ii. resulting from disturbed mental state. Do not have depressive or bipolar disorder cause was a splitting of schiz among functions of the mind i. ii. Four a"s: association: thought disorder, rambling and incoherent speech, affect : disorder of experience and expression of emotion, ambivalence : inability to make or follow through on decisions, autism: withdrawal from reality, german psychologist kurt schneider i. Schizphronia should only be diagnosed if there is first-rank syndrome : key symptoms that define schizophrenia: audible thoughts, outside influences on the body, thought control.
