CHAP 3 (seg 4) Flashcards
a is a group of disorders characterized by “loss of contact” with
reality, marked disturbances of thought and perception and bizarre behavior
Schizophrenia
At some “phase delusions or hallucinations” almost always occur
Schizophrenia
Who “first indentified the illness” in 1896 when he distinguished it
from the mood disorders
Emil Kraepelin
a “premature deterioration of the brain”
dementia praecox
an eminent Swiss psychiatrist, who in 1911 gave term
“schizophrenia.”
Eugene Bleur
People with Schizophrenia often have the sensation that there
are things (like bugs or insects) “crawling across their skin”
Tactile
Schizophrenia Hallucinations:
- Tactile (touch)
- Visual (sight)
- Auditory (hearing)
- Olfactory (smell)
- Command (hearing)
schizophrenia came from the New Latin words
schizo, meaning “split,” and
phrenia, meaning “mind
He developed the word by combining two Greek words schizein
meaning “to split” and phren “mind.”
Eugene Bleur
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 ______ hallucination “hear voices and sounds that others cannot hear.”
Auditory
the person experiencing an _______ hallucination “smells
things” (usually foul smelling things) that others do not smell
Olfactory
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
when a voice commands the person to “do something
he/she would not ordinary do”
Command
