Page 1 - psychological disorders

Class - XII

Psychology

Chapter 4: Psychological Disorders

MODULE - 5

(Topics: Major Psychological Disorders Contd.)

Short Note

Schizophrenia Disorders

 Schizophrenia is the descriptive term for a group of psychotic disorders in
which personal, social and occupational functioning deteriorates as a result of
disturbed thought processes, strange perceptions, unusual emotional states
and motor abnormalities.
 Symptoms: can be grouped into 3 categories-
~ Positive (i.e. excesses of thought, emotion and behaviour),
~Negative (deficit of thought, emotion and behaviour) and
~ Psychomotor symptoms.

1. Positive Symptoms:
 pathological excesses or bizarre additions to a person’s behaviour.
 Symptoms: Delusions, disorganized thinking and speech, heightened
perception and hallucinations.

A. Delusions: false belief that is firmly held on inadequate grounds. Has
various types -
 Delusions of persecution- They believe plotted against, spied on,
slandered, threatened, attacked or deliberately victimized.
 Delusions of reference- in which they attach personal meaning to the
actions, objects and events.
 Delusions of grandeur-They believe themselves to be specially
empowered.
 Delusions of control- They believe their thoughts, feelings and
actions are controlled by others.