1. Schizophrenia and Dissociative Disorders

2. Schizophrenia Most severe 1% of U.S.
50% of people admitted to mental hospitals
Begins in late teens/early adulthood
Rarely before teens or after 45
Effects both men and women

3. Symptoms Two Types -Positive – excessive behaviors
-Negative – deficits in behaviors

4. Symptoms Delusional beliefs Hallucinations
Persecution – people are plotting to harm them
Grandeur – they are someone important
Hallucinations
Visual or hearing voices
Disorganized speech and thought
Word salad
Emotional and behavioral disturbances
Exaggerated to inappropriate to no emotions

5. Theories of Causes Genetics Biological – Dopamine Hypothesis
Over activity of dopamine neurons in brain
Diathesis – stress model
Inherited or environmental predisposition
Stressful events then trigger it
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6. Dissociative Disorders
-Disruption in the conscious process

7. Dissociative Amnesia
Person can not remember things and no physical reason for this loss
Dissociate from painful memories – fugue state

8. Dissociative Identity Disorder
DID
Multiple personality disorder
Person has several personalities instead of one
People with DID -history of sex abuse or other childhood trauma

9. Theories about Causes of DID
Extremely traumatic event has been repressed
Rare outside of U.S.
Critics
Is it legit?
Role- play disorder
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10. Personality Disorders
Characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning
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11. Antisocial Personality Disorder
Sociopath or psychopath
Has little regard for other’s feelings – including family and friends
Bring pain to others
Criminals
Strikes in early 20s
Mostly men

12. Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Grandiosity
Need for admiration
Lacks empathy
Takes advantages of others
Arrogant
Extreme jealousy
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13. Histrionic Personality Disorder
Attention seeking behavior
Inappropriate sexual behavior
Rapidly shifting and shallow display of emotions
Dramatic
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