PSY 340 Schizophrenia
Overview of schizophrenia, its symptoms, and treatment approaches.
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SCHIZOPHRENIA 2
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is depicted as a mental disease, in which a person endures indistinguishable
thoughts, hallucinations, and lessened skills to feel ordinary emotions. Schizophrenia is classified
as a disease in which a person’s ability are to process feelings, observations, emotions, and
performance are completely distraught and abnormal. The word schizophrenia is not even one
hundred years old. However, this illness was first documented as an isolated mental illness by
Emile Kraepelin in 1887 and the illness itself was generally assumed to have be an adjunct to
mankind through its history.
The accounts of schizophrenia has been known in human history books and written by the
Pharaonic Egyptians as far back. The written Egyptian text portray their populace having
thinking instability that were documented and was known now as Schizophrenia. It can be
traced to the old Pharaonic Egypt, as the second millennium before Christ. Depression,
dementia, and thought disorder usual in schizophrenia is expressed in the Book of Hearts. The
heart and the mind seem to have been indistinguishable in olden Egypt. The ordinary illnesses
regarded as a symptom of the heart, uterus and originate from the blood vessels or from the
feces. In early times the lack of understanding of the mentally ill was prevalent. Citizens that
believed of this mental disorder was normally categorized as being caused by demons or evil
spirits that could only be cured by exorcising the person (Mathias, 2011).
The signs of schizophrenia have been portrayed in many other countries besides Egypt. There
have been multiple other recognizable cases in ancient Greek, Chinese, and Roman
documentation. Studies have exposed that ancient Roman and Greek reporting showed that many
of the citizens presumably had an awareness of the mental disorders such as schizophrenia but
there was no way for educators to diagnose for schizophrenia in these cultures. They just did
not have the education or knowledge to know of this disorders and then classify them
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is depicted as a mental disease, in which a person endures indistinguishable
thoughts, hallucinations, and lessened skills to feel ordinary emotions. Schizophrenia is classified
as a disease in which a person’s ability are to process feelings, observations, emotions, and
performance are completely distraught and abnormal. The word schizophrenia is not even one
hundred years old. However, this illness was first documented as an isolated mental illness by
Emile Kraepelin in 1887 and the illness itself was generally assumed to have be an adjunct to
mankind through its history.
The accounts of schizophrenia has been known in human history books and written by the
Pharaonic Egyptians as far back. The written Egyptian text portray their populace having
thinking instability that were documented and was known now as Schizophrenia. It can be
traced to the old Pharaonic Egypt, as the second millennium before Christ. Depression,
dementia, and thought disorder usual in schizophrenia is expressed in the Book of Hearts. The
heart and the mind seem to have been indistinguishable in olden Egypt. The ordinary illnesses
regarded as a symptom of the heart, uterus and originate from the blood vessels or from the
feces. In early times the lack of understanding of the mentally ill was prevalent. Citizens that
believed of this mental disorder was normally categorized as being caused by demons or evil
spirits that could only be cured by exorcising the person (Mathias, 2011).
The signs of schizophrenia have been portrayed in many other countries besides Egypt. There
have been multiple other recognizable cases in ancient Greek, Chinese, and Roman
documentation. Studies have exposed that ancient Roman and Greek reporting showed that many
of the citizens presumably had an awareness of the mental disorders such as schizophrenia but
there was no way for educators to diagnose for schizophrenia in these cultures. They just did
not have the education or knowledge to know of this disorders and then classify them
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University
Excelsior University
Subject
Psychology