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Student:

Rajinder Kaur

Student No:
Date Submitted:
PSYC 001:

821-332-236
November 27, 2012

Psychology: Introduction

Professor:

Kimberly Costello

Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

 A Critical Analysis of Schizophrenia

A Critical Analysis of Schizophrenia

Among all the disorders, Schizophrenia is one of the most serious psychological
disordex Genetic factors and abnormalities in the functioning and structure of the brain
are held responsible for SChiZOPhre'~~~~OPhreniC

patient leads a life full of pain

and misery. Schizophrenia usually begins in adolescence or early adulthood. The

symptoms of schizophrenia are categorized in two types: Negative and Positive.
Negative symptoms include social withdrawal, apathy, loss of motivation, lack of goaldirected activity, very limited speech, slow movements, poor hygiene and grooming, poor

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Schizophrenia showing positive symptoms. At Princeton, Nash is shown as socially

awkward, shy, isolated, loner and insightful. He creates an imaginary character Charles as
his room mate. He gets along with him very well. His disorganized and bizarre behaviour

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mirror out of frustration. The next morning John is shown talking to the broken pieces of

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mirror to the trash, and his face is shown in the fragments of the mirror. The symptoms of

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hallucination and delusions are shown when the other character that Nash creates is
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Parcher, who is working to solve a conspiracy case of an atomic bomb threat towards the
United States. This conspiracy situation goes wrong in his head. He thinks that Russians
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psychiatric hospital, and receives intense treatment. ( film insight.net! 2009/07/05 aJ

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Monitoring in the Rehabilitation of Schizophrenic patients." ( Lukoff,

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other psychological disorders was the rating of psychopathology in the formulation of a

DSM-III Axis I diagnosis (American Psychiatric Association 1980 ).
Beyond diagnosis, assessing-sf-both negative and positive symptoms of a schizophrenic
individual, and monitoring symptoms repeatedly can be a valuable effort to rehabilitate
them. The monitoring of symptoms can be more beneficial if the results of the checkup
are stored with the patients and patient's caregiver.

By doing so can be actively involved

in further treatment and rehabilitation.

Effectiveness of rehabilitation by psychopathology can be best evaluated if the
therapist after regularly monitoring the symptoms of the patient can determine that there
is some reduction in patient's psychological disorder symptoms .. The therapist can also

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Give information to the psychiatrist about patient's medication needs. Patients can be

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from medical specialists, and psychopathological treatment from psychiatric practitioners
and his wife. Efforts from both fields helped him in rehabilitating back in life.

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Schizophrenia. The movie shows that the people with this psychological disorder possess
the ability to be a genius to win the Noble Prize and be a historical figure after proper
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REFERENCES:
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The world of Psychology by Samuel E. Wood, Ellen Green Wood, Denise Boyd,
Eileen Wood and Serge Desmarais-Sixth Canadian Edition 2011

film insight.netl 2009/07/05

a-beautiful- mind-life-isn't-an-

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of Schizophrenic patients." ( Lukoff, Liberman, Nuechteriein ),

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