PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Double Bind, Waxy Flexibility, Alogia

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3140
• Professor: Jason Sharbanee

Document Summary

Disorganized symptoms: erratic behaviours that affect many domains, disorganized speech (e. g. cognitive slippage, tangentiality, loose association/derailment, etc. ) Inappropriate affect/emotional expression: unusual behaviours (e. g. catatonia, including wild agitation, waxy flexibility, immobility, etc. ) Negative symptoms: absence or insufficiency of normal behaviour, symptom cluster avolition (or apathy), alogia, anhedonia, affective flattening, about 25% of sufferers experience negative symptoms. Traditional psychoanalytic account: the result of the patient"s own emotional conflict, unable to reconcile intense feelings of long for intimacy with the fear of closeness, stems from neglect in early childhood. Expressed emotion: hostility, critical comments, emotional over-involvement, lack of warmth, lack of positive comments, these characteristics significantly predict relapse of patients. Social causation: disproportionately, fathers of schizophrenic patients are from the lowest social class. Ptsd: people with schizophrenia have high levels of ptsd. Intrusive trauma-related memories are similar to ptsd, but appraisal of experiences are different: the emotional content of hallucinations are often related to something traumatic.