Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Brief Psychotic Disorder, Psychosis, Eugen Bleuler

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: Ian Nicholson

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Chapter 10: schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders. Disorders with unusual thinking, distorted perceptions, and odd behaviours. Psychosis = severe mental condition characterized by loss of contact with reality. Characterized by: and cognitive faculties with early life onset. *people with schizophrenia do not have split or multiple personalities healthy people (presence of abnormal behavior in the individual) (someone is reading my mind) gustatory: delusion = a false belief, hallucination = a false sensory perception. Severe psychological disorder characterized by disorganization in thought, *hallucinations or delusions alone don"t necessarily mean it"s a psychotic disorder perception, and behaviour often lifelong even if they become quite functional. Emil kraepelin called it praecox dementia (pervasive disturbances of perceptual. Eugen bleuler termed schizo (split) phrenia (mind) Presence of hallucinations doesn"t always mean schizophrenia: loose associations (derailment) no logical way to get from one idea to another (cid:498)i used to work at an army base. Cognitive impairments impairments in visual processing, cant see or categorize.