A psychological dysfunction within an individual associated with distress
What is Psychopathology
Involve the conviction that a major catastrophe will occur
Nihilistic delusion
This subtype applies when the central theme of the delusion is that another person is inlove with the individual
Erotomanic type
argued that abnormal behavior was rooted in disease of the brain
Wilhem Greisinger
Genetic influences, Cultural factors, Psychological and social influences, Neurobiological influences
during the reform and movement therapy, how many hospitals were
32 hospitals
belief that certain gestures, comments, environmental cues, and so on.
Referential delusion
How did people test if women were witches
water-float test
which two paved the way to modern medical
Graesinger and Kraeplin
the cental theme of the delusion is the conviction of having some great talent
Grandiose type
Likened mental disorders to physical diseases.
Emil Kraeph
this when the central theme of the individuals’s delusion is that his or her spouse or lover is unfaithful
Jealous delusions
Difference between schizophrenia and shcizoaffective
schizoaffectifve has all the symptoms except major mood disorder
Boston school teacher, due to her efforts, 32 dfmental hospitals devoted to treating people with psychological disorders were established throughout the United States.
Dorothea Dix
Decreased in motivated self initiated purposeful activities
Avolition
derived from the combination of (“without”) and logos (“words”)
Alogia
are perception-like experience that occur without an external stimulus
Hallucination
Difference between schizophrenia and schizophreniform
schizophreniform has all the symptoms of schizophrenia but the duration of those symptoms do not last six months or more
became medical director for the incurables ward at La Bicetgre in 1793 and continued the humane treatment Pussin had begin
Philippe Pinel
Delusion, Hallucination, Disorganized thinking(speech), Negative symptoms, Grossly abnormal motor behavior
Name the areas of the brain
Frontal, Temporal, Occipital, Parietal
a marked decrease in reactivity to the environment
Catatonic behavior
belief that one is going to be harmed, harassed, and so forth
Persecutory delusion
He used of hypnosis in treating hysteria, a condition characterzied by paralysis or numbness.
Jean Martin Charcot
A harsh, prehistoric practice of dcutting a hole in a persons’s skull, possible in an attempt to release demons.
Trephination