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Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia
• The MOST serious of all psychological
disorders.
• Loss of contact with reality
• Can make it impossible for a person to
function alone.
Schizophrenic Disorder Symptoms
• Delusions (Ex: believing they are
being followed all the time)
• Hallucinations
• Hearing Voices
• Disorganized speech
• No longer able to adapt to situations
Onset
• Early Adolescence / Early
Adulthood
• Rarely over 35
• Emergence sudden or gradualsudden easier to recover from
Causes
• Psychoanalytic
• Biological
Psychoanalytic Causes
• The ego can’t handle the urges from the id.
So, the individual regresses to an early
stage of development where fantasies
become confused with reality.
Psychoanalytic Causes
• Family Environment: When a parent
expresses intense emotions and is pushy,
critical and mean to children is COULD
increase the likelihood of someone
developing schizophrenia.
Biological View
• It’s a BRAIN disorder.
It could be caused by:
• Heredity (passed from
parent to child)
• Complications during
pregnancy/birth
• Birth during winter
BOTH!
• There may be Both psychoanalytic AND
biological factors for schizophrenia.
• Genetics may make someone more
susceptible to schizophrenia and other
factors like a bad home environment may
make schizophrenia more likely.
Treatment
• Drug therapy
• Behavior therapy
Schizophrenic Symptoms
Positive Symptoms
• Hallucinations
• Delusions
• Bizarre ideas
Positive easier to
cure than negative
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Negative Symptoms
Lack of emotions
Social withdrawal
Apathy
Types of Schizophrenia
• Paranoid
• Catatonic
• Disorganized
• Undifferentiated
Paranoid Schizophrenia
• People have delusions or hallucinaitons
that all relate to ONE theme.
• Example: Someone is convinced that they
the FBI is following them. Everything they
think they see and hear reinforces that idea.
Any car that passes by their house MUST
be working for the FBI!
Disorganized Schizophrenia
• People have thoughts and behaviors that
don’t seem to make sense or connect with
one another.
• Either emotionless or showing inappropriate
emotions (laughing at a funeral).
• Neglect physical appearance.
Catatonic Schizophrenia
• Most obvious symptom: disturbance of
movement.
• People with this form of schizophrenia
may hold unusual, uncomfortable body
positions for long periods of time.
Recovery
• Full recovery
(rare)
• Partial recovery
• Chronic