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Myths/ misconceptions of schizophrenia
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- dangerous and violent - results from bad parenting
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◦broad
term referring to hallucinations and/or delusions
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Psychosis
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A type of psychosis with disturbed
thought, language and behavior
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Schizophrenia
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Psychosis and schizophrenia are
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Heterogeneous
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Where are the majority of people with schizo?
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Unemployed in poverty
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3 key figures of schizo
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Emil Kraeplin-
Eugen Bleuler
Kurt
Schneider
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Used the term dementia praecox,
focused on onset and outcomes
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Emil kraeplin
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Introduced the term “schizophrenia”
or “splitting of the mind”
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Eugen Bleuler
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“first
rank symptoms” differentiated schizophrenia from other disorders with psychosis
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Kurt Schneider
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Impact
of Early Ideas on Current Thinking About Schizophrenia
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◦Many
of Kraeplin, Bleuler, and
Schneider’s ideas are still with us
◦Understanding
onset and course in still considered important
◦Finding
features that differentiate schizophrenia from other forms of psychosis
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◦Active manifestations of abnormal behavior, distortions of normal
behavior
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Positive symptoms
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Examples of positive symptoms
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- delusions- hallucinations
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False
perception in any of the 5 differenes
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Hallucinations
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◦Gross misrepresentations of realiity
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Delusions
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Most common type of delusions
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Ex
include delusions of grandeur
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