HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hear Music, Asociality, Eugen Bleuler
15 Jan 2018
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What is psychosis? a mental state characterized by profound disturbances in thought involves losing touch with reality examples: schizophrenia, md with psychotic features, delusional disorder, certain types of bipolar disorder. Blunted affect: outward expression of mood doesn"t match what they are saying /doing. Anhedonia: inability to experience pleasure. not being able to get anything out of the things they once loved. Avolition: waking up and don"t know what to do in the day, lost of drive. Alogia: not saying very much, speech becomes reduced. Disorganized speech derailment: shifting topics abruptly tangentiality: responding with irrelevant response preservation: using the same word repeatedly word salad neologisms. Hare: recent hypothesis, explains 19th century epidemic and rarity of previous descriptions. Kraepelin: various symptoms that had been distinct disorders should be grouped together, dementia praecox . Schizophrenia a brain disorder, very clear about this and was unquestionable.
