Schizo Flashcards
French word for loss of mind
Démence
French word for early premature
Précocé
Alternating immobility and excited agitation
Catatonia
Silly and immature emotionality
Hebephrenia
Delusions of grandeur or persecution
Paranoia
He distinguished dementia praecox from manic-depressive illness
Emil Kraepelin
He published Observations on madness and melancholy, outlining a description of the symptoms of schizophrenia
John Haslam
French physician who described cases of schizophrenia
Philippe Pinel
Physician who used the term démence précocé to describe schizophrenia
Benedict morel
German psychiatrist who unified the distinct categories of schizophrenia under dementia praecox
Emil Kraepelin
Swiss psychiatrist who introduced the term schizophrenia
Eugen Bleuer
Generally refer to symptoms around distorted reality
Positive symptoms
Involve deficits in normal behavior in such areas as speech, blunted affect and motivation
Negative symptoms
Disorder of thought content and the basic characteristic of madness
Delusion
This view would look at beliefs as attempts to deal with and relieve anxiety and stress
A motivational view of delusions
This view sees beliefs as resulting from brain dysfunction that creates these disordered cognition or perceptions
Deficit view of delusions
“thinking without thinking” or a phrase to describe examining your own thoughts
Metacognition
The inability to initiate and persist in activities
Avolition