Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia

1. Clinical Characteristics

   • Hallucinations
     • False sensory perceptions of one's environment.
       • Hearing (auditory), seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling.
   • Delusions
     • False beliefs
     • Delusions of...
       • Grandeur
         • Believing they are someone important, e.g. the Queen.
       • Control
         • Believing that their feelings/thoughts/actions are being externally controlled.
           • For example, believing that their thoughts are being controlled by aliens.
       • Reference
         • Believing that a neutral event is relating to them.
           • For example, believing that the television is talking about them.
       • Persecution
         • Believing that someone is out to get them.
   • Disorganised speech
     • Muddled sentences (word salad).
     • Made up words (neologisms).
     • Shifting from topic to topic (loose association.)