Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

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Devastating psychotic disorder that may involve characteristic disturbances in thinking (delusions), perception (hallucinations), speech, emotions, and behavior.

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schizophrenia

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Disorder of movement involving immobility or excited agitation. Sometimes accompanies psychotic disorders or mood disorders.

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catatonia

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Silly and immature emotionality, a characteristic of some types of schizophrenia.

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hebephrenia

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People’s irrational beliefs that they are especially important (delusions of grandeur) or that other people are seeking to do them harm.

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paranoia

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Latin term meaning “premature loss of mind,” an early label for what is now called schizophrenia, emphasizing the disorder’s frequent appearance during adolescence. Called démence précoce in France.

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dementia praecox

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Separation among basic functions of human personality (for example, cognition, emotion, and perception) seen by some as the defining characteristic of schizophrenia.

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associative splitting

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Severe psychological disorder category characterized by hallucinations and loss of contact with reality.

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psychotic behavior

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Active manifestations of abnormal behavior (delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, odd body movements, or catatonia)

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positive symptoms

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Psychotic symptom involving disorder of thought content and presence of strong beliefs that are misrepresentations of reality.

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delusion

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Psychotic symptoms of perceptual disturbance in which things are seen, heard, or otherwise sensed although they are not actually present.

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hallucination

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Less outgoing symptoms, such as flat affect and poverty of speech, displayed by some people with schizophrenia.

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negative symptoms

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Apathy, or the inability to initiate or persist in important activities.

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avolition

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Deficiency in the amount or content of speech, a disturbance often seen in people with schizophrenia.

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alogia

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Inability to experience pleasure, associated with some mood and schizophrenic disorders.

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anhedonia

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Apparently emotionless demeanor (including toneless speech and vacant gaze) when a reaction would be expected.

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flat affect

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Style of talking often seen in people with schizophrenia, involving incoherence and a lack of typical logic patterns.

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disorganized speech

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Emotional displays that are improper for the situation.

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inappropriate affect

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Disturbance of motor behavior in which the person remains motionless, sometimes in an awkward posture, for extended periods.

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catatonic immobility

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Psychotic disorder involving the symptoms of schizophrenia but lasting less than 6 months.

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schizophreniform disorder

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Psychotic disorder featuring symptoms of both schizophrenia and major mood disorder.

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schizoaffective disorder

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Psychotic disorder featuring a persistent belief contrary to reality (delusion) but no other symptoms of schizophrenia.

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delusional disorder

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Psychotic disturbance in which individuals develop a delusion similar to that of a person with whom they share a close relationship.

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shared psychotic disorder (folie à deux)

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Psychosis caused by the ingestion of medications, psychoactive drugs, or toxins.

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substance-induced psychotic disorder

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Condition that is characterized by hallucinations or delusions and that is the direct result of another physiological disorder, such as stroke or brain tumor.

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psychotic disorder associated with another medical condition

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Psychotic disturbance involving delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech or behavior but lasting less than 1 month; often occurs in reaction to a stressor.

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brief psychotic disorder

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Disorder involving the onset of psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, which puts a person at high risk for schizophrenia; designated for further study by DSM-5.

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attenuated psychosis syndrome

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Cluster A (odd or eccentric) personality disorder involving a pervasive pattern of interpersonal deficits featuring acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships, as well as cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior.

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schizotypal personality disorder

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Second of E. Morton Jellinek’s four stages identified in the progression of alcoholism, featuring heavy drinking but with few outward signs of a problem.

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prodromal stage

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According to an obsolete, unsupported theory, a cold, dominating, and rejecting parent who was thought to cause schizophrenia in her offspring.

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schizophrenogenic mother

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According to an obsolete, unsupported theory, the practice of transmitting conflicting messages that was thought to cause schizophrenia.

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double bind communication

Question 31

Hostility, criticism, and overinvolvement demonstrated by some families toward a family member with a psychological disorder. This can often contribute to the person’s relapse.

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expressed emotion (EE)

Question 32

Social learning behavior modification system in which individuals earn items they can exchange for desired rewards by displaying appropriate behaviors.

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token economy