PSYO 2220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Eugen Bleuler, Avolition, Auditory Hallucination

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 2220
• Professor: Dr.Elaine Ply

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Schizophrenia: the startling disorder characterized by broad spectrum of cognitive and emotional dysfunctions, including delusions and hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior, and inappropriate emotions. This disorder disrupts a person"s perception, thought, speech and movement. (almost every aspect of daily function). Kraepelin provided the most enduring and categorization of schizophrenia. Which combine the symptoms of: catatonia, hebephrenia (silly/immature emotionality), and paranoia; all these symptoms together are called dementia praecox. Kraepelin also distinguished bipolar disorder from schizophrenia. Bleuler introduced the term schizophrenia, which means, (cid:498)split-mind(cid:499). Psychotic: this term is used to characterize many unusual behaviors, although in its strictest sense it usually involves delusions and hallucinations. Schizophrenia can be divided in many different categories such as: schizophreniform, schizoaffective, delusional, brief psychotic disorders. There are 3 types of symptoms: positive, negative and disorganized. Positive symptoms refer to symptoms that distort reality. Negative symptoms refer to deficit in normal behavior (cid:523)such as speech, affect (cid:524).