PSYC 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Schizophreniform Disorder, Canadian Studies

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2280
• Professor: Langton

Document Summary

Schizophrenia: characterized by a broad spectrum of cognitive and emotional dysfunctions including delusions and hallucinations, disorganized speech, behaviour, and inappropriate emotions: subtypes: different presentations and symptom combinations. Majority of people living with schizophrenia are unemployed and in poverty. Emil kraepelin - provided enduring description of schizophrenia, end of 1800s. Combined several symptoms that were distinct previously: Also distinguished this from bipolar disorder - in dp, early onset and poor outcome were characteristic, not so with bd. Eugen bleuler (1908); introduced the term schizophrenia - split mind (split from reality - not multiple personal- ity disorder), underlying all the unusual behaviours was an associative splitting of the basic functions of personal- ity. Believed difficulty keeping a consistent train of thought led to symptoms. Identifying symptoms - difficult to say; there are very few things characteristic of all schizophrenics. Still, there are clusters of symptoms that make up the disorder.