Cotard syndrome was named after Jules Cotard. A French neurologist he called the condition le délire de négation (“negation delirium”). There are multiple levels from mild to severe. Cotard had formed a new type of depression‚ where one denies their own existence. When the area of the brain that recognizes faces is disconnected‚ with the area that associates emotions with those faces. This can also be caused from major depression with psychotic features‚ schizophrenia‚ or organic
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Unit 12 1.1 Describe the main types of mental ill health according to the psychiatric (DSM/ICD) classification system: mood disorders‚ personality disorders‚ anxiety disorders‚ psychotic disorders‚ substance-related disorders‚ eating disorders‚ cognitive disorders? Mood disorders: Is where a disturbance in person’s mood is assumed to be main underlying feature. Personality mood: are conditions in which an individual differs significantly from an average person in terms of how they think‚ perceive
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A hallucination is a false perception occurring without any identifiable external stimulus and indicates an abnormality in perception. The false perceptions can occur in any of the five sensory modalities. Therefore‚ a hallucination essentially is seeing‚ hearing‚ tasting‚ feeling‚ or smelling something that is not there. The false perceptions are not accounted for by the person’s religious or cultural background‚ and the person experiencing hallucinations may or may not have insight into them. Therefore
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The Drug Attitude Inventory-(DAI-30) was created to assess the effectiveness of medication used to treat people hospitalized with Schizophrenia (Lin et al.‚ 2013). This model was based upon 30 questions and yielded a true or false response. For each question resulting in a true response the number 1 assigned. False responses yielded a -1 response. At the end of the assessment scores totaling were referenced to as subjective and negative referred to as negative subjective (Lin et al.‚ 2013).
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In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ the author Ken Kesey uses a variety of symbolism and imagery to portray the struggle of the mental patients in a ward of a psychiatric hospital. The reader can relate to the characters in the novel as the symbolism and imagery contributes to the atmosphere of the novel‚ and increases the reader’s understanding of the conditions the patients live in. A reoccurring theme in the novel is that of sanity vs. insanity. The fact that the novel was written by an unreliable
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John Nash started as a young graduate student who was attending Princeton University at the very beginning of his career‚ who would then be John Nash‚ the mathematics Nobel Prize winner. John Nash had late onset schizophrenia that could have been set off by the stress to have come up with his own idea to publish. He had little to no regard to social interaction‚ little cognitive symptoms were shown until later in life once medicine was taken into account‚ he had major positive symptoms such as hallucinations
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The Paranoid Schizophrenic Soloist In this movie clip of “The Soloist”‚ one sees Jamie Foxx as Nathaniel Ayers‚ a musician‚ playing the violin and cello in Julliard Art School‚ where his symptoms of schizophrenia started with just voices calling his name. He then discusses these frightening symptoms with his mother and realizes that she is indifferent to it and does not care. Ayers is portraying paranoid schizophrenia‚ because he has these hallucinations where he thinks and believes that people are
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"Porphyria’s lover" (PL) and "The laboratory" (TL) are two dramatic monologues written by Robert Browning. Browning uses a range of techniques to reveal the characters psyche. The characters are both insane and deluded but have big differences‚ such as one of them is sadistic and the other suffering from subconscious guilt. I will be discussing the techniques that Browning uses to reveal his characters in PL and TL. In TL Browning begins to suggest a sense of paranoia in the wife: she seems to feel
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I have done case studies for numerous years but I found the case of John Nash the most intriguing. John Nash was mildly arrogant‚ charming‚ and an extremely gifted mathematician. He would scribble mathematical formulas and discoveries on windows in his dorm room‚ and overall he had impeccable intelligence. He developed a groundbreaking economic theory‚ to his impressive rise to the cover of Forbes magazine and an MIT professorship‚ and on through to his eventual dismissal due to schizophrenic delusions
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When it was first described‚ the disorder did not have its own category‚ and the term “borderline”‚ initially designated patients‚ who were at the border of two diseases: not sufficiently sick to be considered psychotic‚ yet too disturbed to follow a psychoanalytic treatment for neuroses (Bateman). It was Adolph Stern‚ an American psychoanalyst‚ who coined the term “the border line group” in 1938‚ first described most of the symptoms and suggested possible causes for its development (Gunderson)
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