Abnormal Flashcards
Neurodevelopmental disorders
- ADHD
- Autism spectrum
- Tourette’s
Schizophrenia Spectrum
Dementia praecox- mind is split from reality
Delusions
Positive symptoms
Added to normal behavior
Negative symptoms
Absence of normal behavior
Grandeur
I am remarkable
Reference
Others are talking about me
Persecution
Others are plotting against me
Hallucinations
Perceptions not due to external stimuli but have compelling sense of reality
Disorganized thought
Doesn’t make sense. Word salad.
Neologisms
Disturbance of affect
Blunting: reduced
Flat: no
Inappropriate: discordant with content
Types of Scz
- Process - slow and insidious onset
2. Reactive - intense and sudden
Progression of Scz
Prodromal (withdrawal, impairment) –> Active
Theories of Scz
- Dopamine
2. Double-bind
Mood disorders
- Depression
- Bipolar- II has hypomania
- Persistent
- Cyclothymic
Catecholamine theory of depression
Norepinephrine/Serotonin levels for depression/mania
Anxiety Disorders
- Phobias
- SAD
- Panic
- GAD
OCD
- OCD
- BDD
- Trich
- Skin (excoriation)
Somatoform disorders
Presence of physical symptoms that suggest medical condition but are not explained by medical condition
- conversion - voluntary motor
- illness anxiety - hypochondriac
Dissociative disorders
- Amnesia- don’t remember past experiences
- Fugue- suddenly move away and then get amnesia
- Identity- multiple personalities
- Depersonalization- an outsider on mental processes
Personality disorders
- Schizoid- detachment from social situations, restricted range of emotional expression
- Narcissistic
- Borderline
- Antisocial
Psychodynamic
Id- pleasure principle; primary process and wish fulfillment
Ego- reality principle; secondary process. Postpone the pleasure principle until the thing can be reached
Superego- conscience, morality
Libido
Energy through which life instincts perform their work
- Eros- life
- Thanatos- death
Defense Mechanisms
Defy reality and operate unconsciously
- Repression
- Suppression- conscious form of forgetting
- Projection- attribute forbidden urges to others
- Reaction Formation- repression warded off by acting the opposite of what the instinct is
- Rationalization- develop explanation for socially unacceptable things
- Regression
- Sublimation- transform inappropriate things into appropriate ones
- Displacement- hostility discharged onto something else
Jung archetypes
- Persona- mask for social demands
- Anima/animus- gender
- Shadow- animal instincts
- Self- combo of collective unconscious and conscious