Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Psychological Explanations
of Schizophrenia
- Family dysfunction
- Schizophrenogenic Mother
- Cold and dominant
- Conflict in family
- Tension and secrecy
- Paranoia
- Hallucinations
- Social withdrawal
- Delusions of persecution
- Fromm-Reichmann
- Discussion
- Interviewed patients
who already had
schizophrenia
- Deluded so may believe
mother was
schizophrenogenic
- Double bind theory
- Battlesan 1972
- Faulty communication
- Contradictory messages
- Confusion and fear of
doing the wrong thing
- Development of behaviours to
avoid double bind situation
- Symptoms
- Avolition
- Social withdrawal
- Expressed emotion
- High levels of negative expressed emotions
- Causes stress
- Correlated with high
relapse rates
- Criticism
- Hostility
- Emotional
Over-involvement
- Cognitive explanations
- Dysfunctional metarepresentation
- Disruption in the ability to
recognise one's own actions and
thoughts
- Causes hallucinations
- Dysfunctional thought processing
- Reduced processing
in cingulate and
temporal gyri cause
positive symptoms
- Reduced processing in
the ventral striatum
cause negative
symptoms
- Lack of central control
- Inability to suppress
automatic thoughts and
speech
- Causes
disorganised
speech and
thought disorder