Psychological explanations of schizophrenia
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- Created on: 25-02-20 14:17
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- Psychological explanations for Schizophrenia
- family dysfunction
- Double-bind theory
- Bateson: developing child regularly finds themselves trapped in a situation where they fear doing the wrong thing
- The schizophreno-genic mother
- Fromm-Reichman: the mother is cold, rejecting and controlling. climate of tension and secrecy
- leads to paranoid delusions of persecution then schizophrenia
- Fromm-Reichman: the mother is cold, rejecting and controlling. climate of tension and secrecy
- Expressed emotion
- amount of negative emotions expressed to the patient by their carer
- 1. verbal criticism + violence
- 2. hostility (anger + rejection)
- emotional over-involvement
- 2. hostility (anger + rejection)
- can be a stressor: cause of schizophrenia and a cause of relapse
- 1. verbal criticism + violence
- amount of negative emotions expressed to the patient by their carer
- Double-bind theory
- cognitive explanations
- disruption to normal thought processing
- reduced processing in the ventral striatum = negative symptoms
- reduced processing in the temporal and cingulate gyri = hallucinations
- Frith et al dysfunctional thought processing
- 1. metarepresen-tation: ability to reflect on thought and behaviour
- disruption= inability to recognise own actions, theyre carried out by someone else. Explains thought insertion
- 2. Central control: supress automatic responses while we perform deliberate actions instead
- disruption= disorganised speech and thought disorder. sufferers become derailed as a word will trigger associations i.e tangents
- 1. metarepresen-tation: ability to reflect on thought and behaviour
- disruption to normal thought processing
- family dysfunction
- receive mixed messages about what it is and feel unable to seek clarification
- punished by withdrawals of love
- causes disorganised thinking and paranoid delusions
- punished by withdrawals of love
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