SEGMENT 4 (F) Flashcards
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-is a group of disorders characterized by loss of contact with reality, marked disturbances of thought and perception and bizarre behavior.
-At some phase delusions or hallucinations almost always occur.
SCHIZOPHRENIA
-first indentified the illness in 1896 when he distinguished itfrom the mood disorders.
EMIL KRAEPELIN
EMIL KRAEPELIN first indentified the illness in ____ when he distinguished itfrom the mood disorders.
1896
-This emphasized a splitting apart of the patient’s affective and cognitive functioning, which are heavily affected by the disease.
SCHIZOPHRENIA
- eminent Swiss psychiatrist, who in 1911 gave term “SCHIZOPHRENIA.”
EUGENE BLEUR
EUGENE BLEUR eminent Swiss psychiatrist, who in ____ gave term “SCHIZOPHRENIA.”
1911
-He called it dementia praecox, which means a premature deterioration of the brain.
EMIL KRAEPELIN
-Emil’s thoughts were later disputed by psychiatrist. One of these was ______
EUGENE BLEUR
-He developed the word by combining two Greek words schizein meaning ____and phren ____
SCHIZEIN- “to split”
PHREN- “mind.”
-Also, schizophrenia came from the New Latin words ___, meaning “split,” and _____, meaning “mind” (King, 2008).
schizo
phrenia
-He developed the word by combining two Greek words schizein meaning “to split” and phren “mind.”
EUGENE BLEUR
SCHIZOPHRENIA HALLUCINATIONS
- TACTILE
- VISUAL
- AUDITORY
- OLFACTORY
- COMMAND
-People with Schizophrenia often have the sensation that there are things (like bugs or insects) crawling across their skin.
TACTILE
-this kind of hallucination cause the person to see things that are not really there.
VISUAL
-this is the most common type of hallucination.
AUDITORY
-people with auditory hallucination hear voices and sounds that others cannot hear.
AUDITORY
-the person experiencing an olfactory hallucination smells things (usually foul smelling things) that others do not smell.
OLFACTORY
-when a voice commands the person to do something he/she would not ordinary do.
COMMAND
CHARACTERISTICS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
- DISTURBANCE OF THOUGHT AND ATTENTION
- DISTURBANCES OF PERCEPTION
- DISTURBANCES OF AFFECT
- WITHDRAWAL FROM REALITY
- DELUSIONS AND HALLUCINATIONS
- People suffering Schizophrenia often cannot think logically and as the result of this they cannot write a story because every word they write down might make sense but are meaningless in reaction to each other and they cannot keep their attention to the writing.
DISTURBANCE OF THOUGHT AND ATTENTION
-The principal disturbance in the schizophrenic’s thought processes is multiple delusions.
DISTURBANCE OF THOUGHT AND ATTENTION
CATEGORIES OF DISTURBANCE OF THOUGHT AND ATTENTION
A. PERSECUTORY DELUSION
B. DELUSIONS OF REFERENCE
C. DELUSION GRANDEUR
D. DELUSION OF CONTROL
- the schizophrenic believes that he/she is being talked about spied upon or his/her death being planned.
PERSECUTORY DELUSION
- false beliefs
- false perception
DELUSIONS
HALLUCINATIONS