PSYC 4321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Dementia Praecox, Philippe Pinel, Eugen Bleuler

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4321
• Professor: Alex Snead

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Schizophrenia: characterized by a broad spectrum of cognitive and emotional dysfunctions, including delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior, and inappropriate emotions: disrupts perception, thought, speech, and movement, more likely to be stigmatized and discriminated against. Full recovery from schizophrenia occurs in only 1/7 patients: affects 1% of people at some point in their lives. Joh(cid:374) hasla(cid:373)"s observations on madness and melancholy (1809): schizophrenia symptoms (cid:449)e(cid:396)e a (cid:862)fo(cid:396)(cid:373) of i(cid:374)sa(cid:374)it(cid:455)(cid:863) Philippe pinel (1801/1809): described cases of schizophrenia: benedict morel: d mence (loss of mind) pr coce (early, premature) Emil kraepelin (1899): most enduring description and categorization of schizophrenia: combined several symptoms of insanity, catatonia: alternating immobility and excited agitation, hebephrenia: silly and immature emotionality, paranoia: delusions of grandeur or persecution. Included these symptoms under the term dementia praecox: distinguished dementia praecox from manic-depressive illness (bipolar) Eugene bleuler (1908): introduced the term schizophrenia (cid:894)(cid:862)splitting of the (cid:373)i(cid:374)d(cid:863)(cid:895: underlying all the unusual behaviors was an associative splitting of the basic functions of personality.