Flashcards
Schizophrenia
Cards in this deck (7)
- 1What is Schizophrenia ?Bleuler - 'split mind' → split in the psyche; disorganised thought processes; split between intellect and emotion; split between intellect and external reality
- 2Main symptoms of schizophreniaAuditory hallucinations
Delusions
Disordered thinking
Control
Emotional and volitional changes - 3Auditory hallucinationsIndividual 'hears' noises, usually voices in their mind, talking to them directly or to each other
- 4DelusionsFalse beliefs: delusions of grandeur (i.e. thinking you are God); delusions of persecution (others are trying to harm you)
- 5Disordered thinkingIndividual feels that their thoughts have been inserted or withdrawn from their mind
- 6ControlIndividual experiences a lack of self-control, as though they are under the control of an alien power
- 7Emotional and volitional changeFlat (blunt) emotions and the individual has little initiative and no energy