PSYC 3390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Thought Disorder, Dopamine Agonist, Delusional Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Heather Mc Lean

Document Summary

Chapter thirteen notes: schizophrenia spectrum and other psychoic disorders. Schizophrenia: broad spectrum of cognitive and emotional dysfunctions including delusions and hallucinations, disorganized speech and behaviour, and inappropriate emotions. Affects almost every aspect of daily functioning perception, thought, movement, speech. Kraepelin, most accurate definition of schizophrenia: combined symptoms of multiple disorders to define schizophrenia as one disorder: All three combined into the term dementia praecox , later termed schizophrenia: differentiated schizophrenia from bipolar disorder, identified numerous symptoms of schizophrenia. Bleuler: changed term from dementia praecox to schizophrenia , realized schizophrenia was an associative splitting of the basic functions of personality (destruction of the forces that connect one function to the next). Also discovered schizophrenics have difficulty keeping a consistent train of thought. Identifying symptoms not all schizophrenics share the same behaviours or symptoms. Diagnosis requires that 2 or more positive, negative, or disorganized symptoms be present for at least one month.