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What do we mean by psychosis?

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  • People lose touch with reality
  • Believe in stuff not objectively true
  • Believe in events not objectively happening
  • Hallucinations
  • Delusions
  • Bizarre behaviour
  • Disorganised speech
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Who proposed THE STANDARD MODEL?

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-Jaspers (1959)

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What was the the Standard Model?

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  • False judgements
  • Extraordinary conviction
  • Impervious to counterargument
  • Impossible content
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What exception needs to be included in psychosis diagnosis?

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  • Cultural norms
  • If a belief is to be culturally widespread we can’t assume they are all deluded
  • ie being abducted by aliens
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What is the most common theme of Delusion?

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  • Persecutory
  • That someone is trying to harm them ,to kill them or poison them
  • Paranoid
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What is morbid jealousy?

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  • Delusion that their lover is cheating on them

- Can be dangerous as they may attack their partner

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What is the theme of misidentification?

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  • They have been taken over by someone else - Capgras

- They believe others have been taken over by someone else - Fregoli

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What is grandiose?

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-That you are king , queen , prime minister or millionaire

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What is the religious theme of delusion?

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  • That they have religious mission

- That they are Jesus or God

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What do guilt/worthlessness, poverty and hypochondriacal.all have in common?

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  • All have feelings of sadness and depression

- responsible fore natural disasters etc

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What delusion is rare?

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-Communication of delusion is rare

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What is folie a deux?

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  • Where two individuals who are closely related share same delusion
  • If two are separated, one keeps delusion one loses it
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What are primary delusions?

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-Delusions that are UNunderstandable

  • eg patient thinks everyone is chameleon
  • nothing in his life to suggest why he would think this
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What are secondary delusions?

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  • Understandable delusions given the information we have about patient mode and life history
  • failed pregnancies etc
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What are over-valued ideas?

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  • Ideas shared by a large majority of people
  • They are understandable ideas
  • But beyond bounds of reason
  • Common in people with OCD

eg someone has covid
wash their hands 200 times a day

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What is definition for hallucinations?

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-False perception without an external stimulus

eg hearing voice or seeing things

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What are examples of auditory hallucinations?

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  • running commentary
  • discussing person in third person
  • hearings ones thoughts out loud
18
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What are visual hallucinations and why may this occur?

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  • Seeing things

- May suggest organic brain disease

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What is example of olfactory hallucinations?

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-Smelling things

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What is example of gustatory hallucinations?

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-Can taste “poison” in food

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What is example of tactile hallucinations?

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  • insects crawling upon skin, sexual sensations
  • mainly in drug addicts
  • those in withdrawal
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What are pseudo hallucinations?

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  • Lack in quality of hallucinations
  • Take place inside their head
  • Patient is aware that hallucination is not real
23
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What is waxy flexibility?

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  • Move arm above head and it stays there

- Cannot be moved

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What is psychological pillow?

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  • Catatonic state

- Freeze for many hours

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What is a positive with treatment of disorganised speech?

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  • Chat mad shit

- But with medication they can talk sense

26
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What is the passivity phenomena?

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  • Rare thought disorder
  • Idea that their thoughts have been taken over by someone else-

Withdrawal
Broadcast
Insertion

27
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What is a key feature of psychosis?

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  • Lack insight

- Refuse to accept they are ill

28
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What are the two argued approaches to psychosis?

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-categorical vs dimensional

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What is meant by categorical psychosis?

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  • you either have psychosis or you don’t
  • some born with certain disorders will most likely get it
  • schizophrenia
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What is meant by dimensional psychosis?

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  • everyone is on spectrum of psychosis

- some are more psychotic than others

31
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What percentage of population here voices?

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-5-8

32
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What percentage of population see delusions?

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-10-15

33
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What is ganser syndrome?

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  • people pretend to have psychosis when they dont

- prison inmates

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