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| lasts for at least 6 months and includes at least 1 month of active-phase symptoms (two [or more] delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior, negative symptoms). |
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Excess or distortion of normal functions including
• in thought content (delusions)
• in perception (hallucinations)
• in language and thought process (disorganized speech)
• and self-monitoring of behavior (grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior) |
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A diminution or loss of normal functions includes
• loss in the range and intensity of emotional expression (affective flattening = person’s face appearing immobile and unresponsive, with poor eye contact and reduced body language. Range of emotional expressiveness s clearly diminished most of the time.)
• decline in the fluency and productivity of thought and speech (alogia = poverty of speech. Brief, laconic, empty replies. Appears to have a diminution of thoughts that is reflected in decreased fluency and production of speech.)
• inability in the initiation of goal-directed behavior (avolition = may sit for long periods of time and show little interest in participating in work or social activities) |
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Erroneous beliefs that usually involve a misinterpretation of perceptions or experiences.
o Persecutory delusions: the person believes he or she is being tormented, followed, tricked, spied on, or ridiculed.
o Referential delusions: the person believes that certain gestures, comments, passages from books, newspapers, song lyrics, or other environmental cues are specifically directed at him or her.
o Somatic
o Religious
o Grandiose |
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| That alien thoughts have been put into their mind |
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| Belief that their thoughts have been taken away by some outside force. |
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o Auditory: voices that are perceived as distinct from the person’s own thoughts
o Visual
o Olfactory
o Gustatory
o Tactile |
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o Derailment
o Loose associations
o Tangentiality
o Incoherence
o Word salad |
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o Childlike silliness to unpredictable agitation
o Problems with goal-orientated behavior, such as personal hygiene |
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| Catatonic Motor Behaviors |
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o Decrease in reactivity to the environment, complete unawareness (catatonic stupor)
o Maintaining a rigid posture and resisting efforts to be moved (catatonic negativism)
o The assumption of inappropriate or bizarre postures (catatonic excitement) |
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A type of Schizophrenia in which the following criteria are met:
A) Preoccupation with one or more delusions or frequent auditory hallucinations.
B) None of the following is prominent: disorganized speech, disorganized or catatonic behavior, or flat or inappropriate affect. |
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A type of Schizophrenia in which the following criteria are met:
A) All of the following are prominent:
1 - disorganized speech
2 - disorganized behavior
3 - flat or inappropriate affect
B) The criteria are not met for Catatonic Type |
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Dominated by at least two of the following:
1 - motoric immobility as evidenced by catalepsy (including waxy flexibility) or stupor
2 - excessive motor activity (that is apparently purposeless and not influenced by external stimuli)
3 - extreme negativism (an apparently motiveless resistance to all instructions or maintenance of a rigid posture against attempts to be moved) or mutism
4 - peculiarities of voluntary movement as evidenced by posturing (voluntary assumption of inappropriate or bizarre postures), stereotyped movements, prominent mannerisms, or prominent grimacing
5 - echolalia or echopraxia |
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| A type of Schizophrenia in which symptoms that meet Criterion A are present, but the criteria are not met for the Paranoid, Disorganized, or Catatonic Type. |
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A type of Schizophrenia in which the following criteria are met:
A) Absence of prominent delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior.
B) There is continuing evidence of the disturbance, as indicated by the presence of negative symptoms or two or more symptoms listed in Criterion A for Schizophrenia, present in an attenuated form (odd beliefs, unusual perceptual experiences). |
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| Shared Psychotic Disorder |
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A) A delusion develops in an individual in the context of a close relationship with another person(s), who has an already-established delusion.
B) The delusion is similar in content to that of the person who already has the established delusion.
C) The disturbance is not better accounted for by another Psychotic Disorder (Schizophrenia) or a Mood Disorder With Psychotic Features and is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance or a general medical condition. |
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| Psychotic Disorder due to a general medical condition |
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With Delusions: if delusions are the predominant symptom
With Hallcinations: if hallucinations are the predominant symptom |
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| Schizophreniform Disorder |
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| a symptomatic presentation that is equivalent to Schizophrenia except for its duration. The disturbance lasts from 1-6 months. There is no social/occupational dysfunction or decline in functioning. |
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(1 month) a mood episode and the active phase symptoms of schizophrenia occur together and were preceded or are followed by at least 2 weeks of delusions or hallucinations without prominent mood symptoms.
- Uninterrupted period of illness with manic depressive, manic, or mixed episode concurrent at some point
o Bipolar Type
o Depressive Type |
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1 month of nonbizarre delusions without other active-phase symptoms of schizophrenia.
- psychosocial functioning is not markedly impaired
- Behavior is not odd or bizarre
Types: Erotomanic, Grandiose, Jealous Type, Persecutory, Somatic, Mixed, Unspecified. |
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| Delusional Disorder: Erotomanic Type |
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| central theme of the delusions is that another person is in love with the individual. The delusion often concerns idealized romantic love and spiritual union rather than sexual attraction |
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| Delusional Disorder: Grandiose Type |
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| central theme is the conviction of having some great but unrecognized talent or insight or having the delusion of having a special relationship with a prominent person or being a prominent person. May have a religious content |
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| Delusional Disorder: Jealous Type |
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| the central theme is believing that their spouse or lover is unfaithful. This belief is arrived at without due cause and is based on incorrect inferences supported by small bits of “evidence” |
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| the delusion involves the person’s belief that he or she is being conspired against, cheated, spied on, followed, poisoned or drugged, maliciously maligned, harassed, or obstructed in the pursuit of long-term goals. |
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| Delusional Disorder: Somatic Type |
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| involves bodily functions or sensations, and can occur in several forms. Most common are the person’s conviction that he or she emits a fould odor from the skin, mouth, rectum, or vagina; that there is an infestation of insects on or in the skin; there is an internal parisite; certain parts of the body are misshaped |
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lasts more than 1 day and remits by one month.
- involves the sudden onset of at least one of the following positive psychotic symptoms: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, or grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior.
o With or without marked stressors
o With postpartum depression |
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| Shared Psychotic Disorder |
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| the presence of a delusion in an individual who is influenced by someone else who has a longer-standing delusion with similar content. |
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| Substance-Induced Psychotic Disorder |
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the psychotic symptoms are judged to be a direct physiological consequence of a drug of abuse, a medication or toxin exposure.
- With delusions or hallucinations
- With onset during intoxication or withdrawal |
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