Schizophrenia: Explanations

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Schizophrenia: Explanations
- Chemical
  - Dopamine hypothesis
    - Important in guiding attention, and perception
    - Increased levels of dopamine found in schizophrenics.
    - Increased number of D2 receptors
      - Increased frequency neurones 'firing' dopamine
- Behavioural
  - Faulty learning
    - Strange behaviours rewarded by attention
  - Scheff's labelling theory
  - Environmental breeder hypothesis
    - Those in lower social classes have higher rate of schizo.
  - Psychodynamic
    - Regression into pre-ego stage
      - If parents were uncaring child regresses to stage before realistic awareness of external world was formed.
    - Attempts to re-establish ego control
      - Infantile state, symptoms such a hallucinations reflecting persons attempt to re-establish ego control.
Psychodynamic
- Regression into pre-ego stage
  - If parents were uncaring child regresses to stage before realistic awareness of external world was formed.
- Attempts to re-establish ego control
  - Infantile state, symptoms such a hallucinations reflecting persons attempt to re-establish ego control.

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