PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Delusional Disorder, Schizoaffective Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder
28 Nov 2016
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Krapelin combined several symptoms of insanity that had usually been viewed as reflecting separate distinct disorders: catatonia alternating immobility and excited agitation, heb ephrenia silly and immature emotionality, paranoia delusions of grandeur or persecution. These symptoms shared similar underlying features and included them under the term dementia praecox. Associative splitting bleulers belief hat underlying all the unusual behaviours shown by ppl with this disorder was and associative splitting of the basic functions of personality. Psychotic usually involves delusions (irrational beliefs) and hallucinations (sensory experiences in the absent of external events) Schizophrenia spectrum disorder a group of disorders: schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder, brief psychotic disorders, *schizotypal personality disorder. Positive symptoms: the presence of too much of a behaviour that is not apparent in most people; consists of excesses or distortions. Hallucinations it is believed that the voices are really from their own thought but they cannot recognize that it is their thoughts.
