Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: ICD-10 Specifications

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Schizophrenia

Diagnostic Criteria

Criterion A: Two or more of the following symptoms for at least one month:

  • Delusions (erroneous beliefs, sometimes misinterpretations of experiences, expressing loss of control over mind/body)
  • Hallucinations (auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory, tactile)
  • Disorganized speech (losing train of thought, jumping between topics)
  • Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior
  • Negative symptoms:
    • Affective flattening (lack of expression, poor eye contact, reduced body language)
    • Alogia
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Social Disorganization and Pathology

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Social Disorganization and Conflict

Social Disorganization

It is the dissociative process that tends to disengage a social organization.

In society: Misuse of conduct of modules (no).

Conflict

A form of interaction by which two or more people try to be mutually exclusive, either annihilating one party or another, or reducing the reaction.

Patterns: Injury, physical aggression, verbal attacks, contempt, personal rivalry.

Forms of Social Disorganization: Ritualism, rebellion, innovation, withdrawal.

Social

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Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory: A Comprehensive Overview

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Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory

Introduction to Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a philosophical theory and therapeutic method that studies human nature. Its search method involves studying patient behavior to understand the etiology (cause) of psychological distress. The curative method aims to eliminate the cause to cure the disease.

Freud’s Key Concepts

Sigmund Freud, influenced by Charcot and Breuer, posited that the human being is composed of body and mind. He identified three key components

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Madness or Dementia in Chilean Criminal Law

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Development in Chile

Glen believed that modern psychiatry misapplied the terms “madness” and “insanity.” He preferred the term “alienated” to designate individuals suffering from a mental disorder affecting criminal responsibility.

Novoa stated that the terms “crazy” or “insane” referred to individuals with severe, permanent mental impairment. He aimed to include all individuals with a pathological impairment of mind, lacking the psychic ability to understand legal duty and adjust their behavior accordingly.

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Understanding Abnormal Psychology & Mental Disorders

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Psychopathology Notes

Criteria for Abnormal Behavior

Distress

How do we know it when we see it?

  • Discomfort
  • Behavior
  • Speech pattern

Abnormal behavior refers to patterns of thought, feeling, or behavior that are atypical, distressing, dysfunctional, and sometimes dangerous.

Impairment

  • In major life functions: struggle at work or at school, in relationships
  • AKA “psychological disability”

Cultural “Inappropriateness”

  • Or behaviors that are “culturally unexpected”?

Diagnosing Syndromes, Not Symptoms

  • The difference
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Introduction to Psychology: Key Concepts and Biological Foundations

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Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology

Early Influences

Father of Psychology: Wilhelm Wundt (1879, Germany)

Student of Wundt: Edward Titchener, Structuralism

Father of American Psychology: William James, Functionalism

7 Major Perspectives in Modern Psychology

  • Psychoanalytic: Unconscious processes, unresolved conflicts, past experiences (Sigmund Freud)
  • Behavioral: Objective, observable, environmental influences on overt behavior (John B. Watson, 1913)
  • Humanistic: Free will, self-actualization, growth-seeking,
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