PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Dementia Praecox, Auditory Hallucination, Waxy Flexibility
29 Nov 2017
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Schizophrenia: startling disorder characterized by a broad spectrum of cognitive and emotional dysfunctions including delusions and hallucinations, disorganized speech and behaviour, and inappropriate emotions. Split mind (associative splitting): destruction of forces that connect one function to another. Symptoms for schizophrenia are highly variable depending on the patient. Psychotic: unusual behaviour involving delusions (irrational beliefs) and hallucinations (sensory experiences in the absence of external events) Psychotic effects usually have different subtypes of apparent symptoms: positive distorted reality [considered to be the more positive signs of psychosis] Delusions of persecutions [people out to get them] Cotard"s syndrome [a part of their body changed in an impossible way] Capgras syndrome [believing that one has been replaced by a double] It is suggested that delusions could be adaptive to help the patients cope with their situation or that they result from lack of proper integration of new information. Sensory events without any input from the surrounding environment.
