Schizophrenia: Explained And Treatments

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wealth, intellect, importance or power.
Sometimes the patient may think he is George Washington or another great
historical person (Chapman). Hallucinations are common, particularly auditory,
as voices in the third person or commenting upon the patient's thoughts and
actions (Arieti). Persons may also hear music or see nonexistent images
(Sinclair). Schizophrenic thought disorder is the diminished ability to think
clearly and logically (Torrey 2). Many times, schizophrenics invent new words
(called neologisms) with unique meanings (Chapman). Often it is apparent by
disconnected and meaningless language that renders the person incapable of
participating in conversation and contributing to his alienation from his family,
friends, and society (Torrey 2). There appears to be three major subtypes of
Schizophrenia: paranoid, hebephrenic, and catatonic. Delusions, often of
prosecution, are prominent in the paranoid type (Arieti). Hebephrenic
schizophrenia is characterized by ...

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between 16 and 25 years of age. Onset is uncommon after age
30, and rare after age 40 (Torrey 3). Psychiatric patients are generally
insulted by contentions that their trouble was brought on by bad parenting,
childhood trauma, or week character (Willwerth 79). Sigmund Freud has suggested
that schizophrenia is developed from a lack of affection in the mother-infant
relationship in the first few weeks after birth. Increased levels of the
neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain's left hemisphere and lowered glucose
levels in the brain's frontal lobes have been coupled to schizophrenic episodes
(Chapman).

Treatment for schizophrenia includes electroconvulsive treatment (shock ...

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