PSY 034 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Dsm-5, Avolition

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 034
• Professor: Tootle

Document Summary

Schizophrenia a startling disorder characterized by a broad spectrum of cognitive and emotional dysfunctions including delusions and hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior, and inappropriate emotions. Affects almost every aspect of daily functioning. Catatonia alternating immobility and excited agitation. Paranoia delusions of grandeur or persecution. Dementia praecox a psychiatric diagnosis that originally designated a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the late teens or early adulthood. Early age of onset and poor outcome label for what is now called schizophrenia; breaking of associative threads. Associative splitting a latin term meaning premature loss of mind; an early. Symptoms include a number of behaviors or symptoms that aren"t necessarily. Psychotic behavior used to characterize many unusual behaviors, although in its shared by all people who are given the diagnosis strictest sense, it usually involves delusions and/or hallucinations. Positive symptoms - the more obvious signs of psychosis.