Chapter 13 Schizophrenia

Exam 3 

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Myths/ misconceptions of schizophrenia
- dangerous and violent - results from bad parenting
◦broad term referring to hallucinations and/or delusions
Psychosis
A type of psychosis with disturbed thought, language and behavior
Schizophrenia
Psychosis and schizophrenia are
Heterogeneous
Where are the majority of people with schizo?
Unemployed in poverty
3 key figures of schizo
—Emil Kraeplin- —Eugen Bleuler —Kurt Schneider
Used the term dementia praecox, focused on onset and outcomes
Emil kraeplin
Introduced the term “schizophrenia” or “splitting of the mind”
Eugen Bleuler
—“first rank symptoms” differentiated schizophrenia from other disorders with psychosis
Kurt Schneider
—Impact of Early Ideas on Current Thinking About Schizophrenia
◦Many of Kraeplin, Bleuler, and Schneider’s ideas are still with us ◦Understanding onset and course in still considered important ◦Finding features that differentiate schizophrenia from other forms of psychosis
◦Active manifestations of abnormal behavior, distortions of normal behavior
Positive symptoms
Examples of positive symptoms
- delusions- hallucinations
False perception in any of the 5 differenes
Hallucinations
◦Gross misrepresentations of realiity
Delusions
Most common type of delusions
Ex include delusions of grandeur