PSYCH 270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Dementia Praecox, Eugen Bleuler, Emil Kraepelin
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Schizophrenia: a devastating psychotic disorder that may involve characteristic disturbances in thinking (delusions), perception (hallucinations), speech, emotions and behavior. Emil kraepelin gives us the best explanation today. Combined several symptoms of insanity that had usually been viewed as reflecting separate and distinct disorders. These shared similar features under the term. Dementia paxos: the latin term meaning premature loss of mind; an early label for what is now called schizophrenia, emphasizing the disorder frequent appearance during adolescence. Catatonia: a disorder of movement involving immortality or excited agitation. Hebephrenia: a silly and immature emotionality, a characertisc of some types of schizophrenia. Paranoia: people"s irrational beliefs that they are especially important (delusions of grandeur) or other people are seeking to do them hard. Dementia paxos- early age of onset and poor outcome charcertic. Often had hallucinations, delusions, negativism, and stereotyped behavior. The unusual behaviors shown by people with the disorder was an associative splitting of personality.
