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Definitions Bleuler – schizophrenia, ‘split mind’ – created a frenzy of misunderstanding Schizophrenia: A class of psychological disorders characterized by grossly impaired social, emotional, cognitive, and perceptual functioning. Inability to control attention, easily distracted by irrelevant stimuli, cognitive fragmentation, flat or inappropriate emotionality, emotional inappropriateness – bizarre outbursts, social withdrawal, few if any friends, unusual motor behavior (S & R) Disorganized Type: Inappropriate laughter and giggling, silliness, incoherent speech, infantile behavior, strange and sometimes obscene behavior. (Feldman) Paranoid Type: Delusions and hallucinations of persecution or of greatness, loss of judgment, erratic and unpredictable behavior. Catatonic Type: Major disturbances in movement; in some phases, loss of all motion, with patient frozen into a single position; in other phases, hyperactivity and wild, sometimes violent, movement Schizophrenic patients cost American economy billions of dollars each year. (S&R) Schizophrenia is a fragmented condition in which words are split from meaning, actions from motives, perceptions from reality. (W&T) Psychosis – a general lack of contact from reality (Huffman) Reductive Statements FELDMAN p. 489. People with schizophrenia use logic and language in peculiar ways. Their thinking often does not make sense, and their information processing is frequently faulty.
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