PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Dementia Praecox, Cataonia, Delusional Disorder
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Schizophrenia: startling disorder characterized by a broad spectrum of cog and emotional dysfunctions including delusions and hallucinations broad spectrum of go and emotional dysfunction; hallucinations. Disrupt a person"s perception, thought, speech and movement. Cataonia: alternating immobility and excited agitation a lot of agitation. Hebephrenia: silly and immature emotionality immature emotionality. Paranoia: delusions of grandeur or persecution delusions. Associative splitting: breaking of associative threads destruction of forces that connect one function to the next. Difficult to keep consistent train of thought. Normal childhood and parents have been married until he was in college. 3 weeks before he came to the clinic, he started speaking strangely. Saving all the starving children in the world with his plan. Explained his scheme might be taking drugs but cannot find evidence of drug use. Psychiatric hospital they could not bring him involuntarily unless he was in danger of doing something to harm himself or others.
