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Daily Archives: September 3, 2010
Paranoid Schizophrenia vs Delusional Disorder
Analysis of the common psychopathological features in the various psychotic disorders suggest that symptoms can be clustered into five main categories: (Os & Kapur, 2009, p. 635) 1) Psychosis, encompassing positive symptoms of delusions and hallucinations. 2) Alterations in drive … Continue reading
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Tagged attention, auditory hallucinations, Bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, catatonic, delrealization, delusions, dementia praecox, depersonalization, Depression, dysphoric mood, dysregulation, executive functioning, hallucinations, Mania, Manic, memory, motivation, neurocognition, non-bizarre delusions, paranoid, persecutory delusions, Psychosis, Schizophrenia, social withdrawal, spontaneous speech
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Paranoid & Delusional Disorders
The boundary between normal and abnormal appears to be largely subjective. “One person’s excessive suspiciousness is another’s due caution, and one person’s trust is another’s gullibility.” (Blaney & Millon, 2009, p. 362) The “trade-off between vigilance and vulnerability” is something … Continue reading
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Tagged aberrant beliefs, anhedonia, caution, conviction, delusional, delusions, distress, double awareness phase, emotional commitment, frequency, frustration, general mental disturbance, gullibility, insight, mistrustful, Paranoia, persecutory delusions, quasi-delusional, security, stigmatization, suspiciousness, Theory of Mind, Trust, victimization, wary
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Schizophrenia, Downward Social Drift, and Interpersonal Adjustment
Everyday social encounters present people with schizophrenia a considerable amount of difficulty. They show significant impairment in both “instrumental relationships” and social-emotional relationships. This impairment is demonstrated by “downward social drift” and, perhaps more importantly, the fact that the majority … Continue reading
