CC210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Mental Disorder, Bipolar Disorder
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Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) : american psychiatric institute, criticisms . Use of diagnostic categories artificial binary distinctions. Psychosis a group of symptoms that involve impaired reality testing, whereby a person has difficulty perceiving what is real and what is fantasy: delusions, hallucinations. Schizophrenia a mental disorder characterize by a mixture of psychotic symptoms that are present for a prolonged period of time. A group of symptoms characterized by an excess or distortion of psychological functioning. Delusions a strongly held, but false belief. Hallucinations a false sensory perception that occurs in the absence of an appropriate external stimulus. A group of symptoms characterized by a deficit in psychological functioning. Flattened affect a lack of appropriate e(cid:373)otio(cid:374) i(cid:374) a perso(cid:374)"s observable expressions and behaviours. Alogia speech that is impoverished in terms of the quantity of spoken words or content of the ideas communicated.
