Psychological Explanations of SZ - created from Mind Map

Psychological Theories Psychodynamic AO1 Cognitive AO2 Evaluation - Psychodynamic AO2 Evaluation Cognitive Freud 1924 regression to pre - ego state delusion and grandeur - reflect primitive condition auditory hallucinations - attempt to re-establish ego control believe people hide truth - reject feedback belief they are manipulated and persecuted no research evidence for Freud theory subsequent psycoanalysts agreed - eg. Fromm-Reichman 48 Oltman 1999 Lindberg 2002 - link between excess dopamine in prefrontal cortex and working memory - much evidence of physical/biological

Socio-Cultural Factors Life events Family relationships Labelling theory - Scheff 1999 AO2 Evaluation socio-cultural discrete stresses - Brown and Birley 68 / Falloon 96 - neurotransmitter Double-bind - Bateson 1956 Expressed emotion Life Events Van Os 1994 - no link life events and onset - link only correlational Family relationships Tienari 1994 - adoption study Labelling Scheff 1974 - 13 consistent and 5 not/ Assessed Rosenhan Double-bind - Berger 1965 / Hall and Levin 1980 Expressed emotion more support than double bind Hogarty 1991

Psychological Explanations of SZ