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Positive symptoms

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Symptoms that Seem to be excesses of or bizarre additions to normal thoughts emotions or behaviors

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Psychosis

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A state in which a person loess contact with reality

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Persecutory delusions ( (schizophrenia))

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People believe they’re being plotted against spied on threatened or victimized

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Reference ( (schizophrenia))

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Attaching special and personal meaning to the actions of others or to various objects or events

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Grandiose illusions ( (schizophrenia))

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Believe themselves to be empowered persons or especially great at something

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Thought control ( (schizophrenia)

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Feelings thoughts and actions are being controlled by others

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Neologisms ( (schizophrenia))

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Made up words that typically have meaning only to the person using them

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Clang speech ( (schizophrenia))

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Using rhyme to express themselves

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Loose associations ( (schizophrenia))

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Common thinking disturbance in schizo characterized by rapid shifts from one topic to another

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Word salad ( (schizophrenia)

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confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases

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Inappropriate effect ( (schizophrenia)

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Showing emotions unsuited to the situation, like smiling at bad news

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Negative symptoms of schizo

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Deficits in normal thought emotions or behaviors

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Type II schizo

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Display more negative symptoms and may be tied largely to structural abnormalities in the brain

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Alogia ( (schizophrenia))

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Decrease in speech or speech content

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Avolition ( (schizophrenia))

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general lack of drive, or motivation to pursue meaningful goals

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Catatonia ( (schizophrenia))

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Pattern of extreme psychomotor symptoms

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Prodromal phase (schizophrenia)

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Symptoms are not yet obvious but deterioration is beginning

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Active stage (schizophrenia)

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Symptoms become apparent, may be triggered by stress or trauma in ones life

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Residual phases (schizophrenia)

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Return to a prodromal like level of functioning

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Diagnosing type I schizo

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Dominated by positive symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations

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Diagnosing type II Schizo

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Display more negative symptoms, such as restricted affects

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DSM 5 criteria for schizophrenia

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  • symptoms continue for six months or more
  • at least one of those months must be an active phase
  • must show deterioration in work, social life, or ability to care for themselves
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Prognosis of schizophrenia

10 yrs later

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most are independent
some have improved but still need work
10% commit suicide

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Early conceptions of schiz

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Wastebasket category for clinicians where the label was assigned to anyone who acted unpredictably or strangely

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Gender and age factors in schizo

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earlier onset in men, women greater onset after age 30

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Brief psychotic disorder

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Various psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations for less than 1 month

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Schizophreniform disorder

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Various psychotic symptoms for 1-6 months

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Scizoaffective disorder

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Marked symptoms of both schizo and a major depressive episode or a manic episode for 6 months or more

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Delusional disorder

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Persistent delusions that are not bizarre and not due to schizo for one month or more

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Psychotic disorder associated with another medical condition

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Hallucinations delusions or disorganized speech caused by a medical illness or brain damage

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Substance induced psychotic disorder

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Psychotic symptoms caused directly by a substance

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Schizophrenia

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Psychotic disorder in which personal social and occupational functioning deteriorate as a result of strange perceptions unusual emotions and motor abnormalities

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Hallucinations vs delusions

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H is false sensory perceptions

D is false beliefs

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Negative symptoms

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Symptoms

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Type II schizo seems to be more closely related to _____.

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Structural abnormalities

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Type I schizo seems to be related more to ______.

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Biochemical abnormalities

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Anhendonia

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General lack of pleasure or enjoyment

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Flat effect

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Show almost no emotions at all

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Blunted affect

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Showing less emotions that most other people

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Malingering

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Intentionally feigning illness to achieve some external gain

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Conversion disorders

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Medically unexplained bodily symptoms affect voluntary motor and sensory functions

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Predominant pain pattern

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When the primary feature of somatic symptom disorder is pain

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Hysterical disorders

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Conveyed the belief that excessive and uncontrolled emotions underlie the bodily symptoms found in conversion and somatic symptom disorders

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Illness anxiety disorder

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Experience chronic anxiety about their health and are convinced they have a serious medical illness despite the absence of substantial symptoms. Constantly check bodies for signs of illness and misinterpret

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Body dysmorphic disorder

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Become deeply concerned about some imagined or minor defect in their appearance

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Somatic symptom disorders

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mental disorder characterized by physical symptoms that suggest physical illness or injury – symptoms that cannot be explained fully by a general medical condition

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Facticious disorder

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exaggeration or falsification of one’s health, motivation is not personal gain

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Psychophysiological disorders

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psychological condition causes or exacerbates physical symptoms

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Münchausen syndrome by proxy

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mental illness in which a person acts as if an individual he or she is caring for has a physical or mental illness when the person is not really sick, usually their child

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Dissociative amnesia

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Unable to recall important info, Usually of an upsetting nature, about their lives, not caused by physical factors

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Dissociative fugue

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Persons forget personal identity and details of past but also flee to an entirely different location

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Depersonalization disorder

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Marked by presence of persistent and recurrent episodes of depersonalization, derealization, or both.

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Dissociative identity disorder

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Person develops two or more distinct personalities

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Reasons why DID is a controversial diagnosis

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Incidences have skyrocketed, normal people under hypnosis can easily simulate symptoms of DID

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Psychodynamic theory of DID

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Caused by repression, people fight off anxiety by unconsciously preventing painful memories or impulses from reaching awareness

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Behavioral theory of DID

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Grows from normal drifting of mind or forgetting, and the response is caused by operant conditioning from the horrifying event

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State dependent learning theory of DID

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Thoughts and memories and skills are tied exclusively to a particular state of arousal, so they recall a given event when they experience an arousal state almost identical to the state in which the memory was first formed, creating multiple personalities

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Self hypnosis and DID

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Some children manage to escape from their abusive world by self hypnosis, mentally separating themselves from their bodies and becoming another person

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How research could test the validity of DID

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Form careful description of DID
compare groups
Longitudinal research

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Clinical phenomenology of DID Putnam et. al
Investigated what?
What percent reported childhood sexual abuse?
What else did they find?

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Relation between childhood trauma and DID
85% reported abuse
Also found # of alters correlated a severity of trauma

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False memory syndrome

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condition in which a person’s identity and relationships are affected by memories that are factually incorrect but that they strongly believe

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Is DID distinct from other psychiatric disorders? Surpppo et. al
Compared what?
Found what?

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Compared DID patients with non dissociative psych patients

Found that people with DID reported more and earlier childhood trauma and more unconventional views of reality

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Somatization pattern of somatic symptom disorder

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Experience long lasting physical ailments that have no physical basis

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Selective dissociative amnesia

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Remember some but not all events that occurred during a period of time

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Localized dissociative amnesia

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Most common in which a person loses all memory of certain events that took place within a limited period of time, often triggered by a disturbing occurrence

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Generalized dissociative amnesia

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Cannot remember events within certain period of time or earlier life events

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Continuous dissociative amnesia

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Forgetting continues into the present as well as events before and during the tragedy

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How sub personalities differ

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Identifying features, abilities/preferences, physiological responses

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Mutually amnesic relationships

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Sub personalities have no awareness of one another

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Mutually congnizant relationship

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Each sub personality is well aware of the rest

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One way amnesic relationships

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Some personalities are aware of others but the awareness is not mutual

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Co conscious sub personalities

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Quiet observers who watch the actions and thoughts of other personalities but don’t interact with them

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Derealization

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Sense that ones surrounding are unreal or detached

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Depersonalization

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Sense that ones own mental functioning or body is unreal or detached

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Treatment for DID

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Recognize fully the nature of their disorder
Recover gaps in memory
Integrate sub personalities into one functional personality

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