PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Haloperidol, Monopoly Money, Antipsychotic

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Psychology101: schizophrenia (thursday, november 20, 2012: one of the rarest of psychological disorders- yet has the greatest about of suffering, most misunderstood by the media, and portrayed in a way that is not truthful. Introduction to schizophrenia: myths & falsehoods about schizophrenia, the confusion between schizophrenia and dissociative disorder (multiple personality) causes people to mistake what the disorder is. Schiz means split, but coined by psychiatrist eugene bleuter, to describe split between thoughts and emotions within the mind ( phren : schizophrenia individuals are dangerous. Untrue, but they are disposed to becoming agitated and this may be frightening. Patients are victims of sensationalized media reports: schizophrenic individuals are constantly out of control. During a psychotic episode, their grasp of reality is tenuous with thoughts and feelings having a life of their own, independent of the external world. Not always a psychotic episode the insane are not always insane : schizophrenia is biologically inevitable.