Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia

• Chapter 16 Section 4

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What is Schizophrenia?

• The most complex and severe
• psychological disorder known.
• Affects 1 in 100 people.
• (1 in 10 if it runs in the family)
• Definition A group of disorders characterized by
  confused and distorted thoughts, emotions, and
  perceptions.

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What is Schizophrenia?

• Characteristics
• Delusions false beliefs maintained in the face
  of contrary evidence.
• Hallucinations perceptions in the absence of
  sensation. (i.e., hear voices, see visions)
• Disturbances in affect (inappropriate emotions).
• Normal movement deteriorates.
• Diverted attention.
• Lower functioning lifestyle in general.

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Types of Schizophrenia

• Paranoid Type

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Types of Schizophrenia

• Catatonic Type
• Odd movements or
• positions held for a long
• time. Body loosens slowly,
• like a melting wax statue.

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Types of Schizophrenia

• Disorganized type
• Incoherent language,
• wrong emotions,
• laughing for no reason,
• disorganized motor
• skills.

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Types of Schizophrenia

• Remission type
• Symptoms are gone but
• the disorder still exists.
• The patient has learned
• to deal with the disease.

A scene from the film A Beautiful Mind
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Types of Schizophrenia

• Undifferentiated type
• Several basic
• symptoms of
• schizophrenia.
• Often affects the
• homeless population.

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Famous Schizophrenics

• (Functional)

Lionel Aldridge, defensive end for the Green Bay
Packers
John Nash, genius mathematician and Nobel Prize
winner
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Famous Schizophrenics

• Musicians

Peter Green, Guitarist for Fleetwood Mac
Syd Barrett, lead guitarist and founder of the
rock band Pink Floyd
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Famous Schizophrenics

• The not-so-functional

John Hinckley Jr., tried to assassinate Ronald
Reagan
Ted Kaczynski, the Una-Bomber
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Famous Schizophrenics

• Scary moms

Roomates in the mental ward!
Andrea Yates. Suffered from post-partum
depression. Heard voices that told her to drown
her 5 children In the bathtub.
Dena Schlosser. While listening to hymn
music, she cut the arms off her infant
daughter, then calmly called 911 and told them
what she had done.
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Famous Schizophrenics

• Siblings
• The Genain Quadruplets
• (identical) grew up in a
• mentally unstable family.
• By their 20s, they had
• all been diagnosed as
• schizophrenics.
• They have been widely
• studied by psychologists for insight
• into genetic causes.

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Causes

• Biological
• Biochemistry and Physiology
• Family and Interactions

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The Insanity Defense

• A LEGAL term in which a person is deemed to have
  been insane during the time they committed a
  crime, meaning they did not understand reality or
  the difference between right and wrong.
• Mainly in cases of murder or other violent acts.
• Often these cases receive a lot of media
  attention.

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The insanity DefenseResearch Presentation

• Name of defendant
• Crime charges, date it occurred, names of
  victims, if any
• Verdict What did the court decide?
• Sentence What was the punishment?
• Where are they today?
• Has this case had any effect on the legal or
  psychological landscape?

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Insanity as a Defense in Court
The Menendez Brothers- ruthlessly murdered their
wealthy parents.
Dan White- The Twinkie Defense as
diminished capacity.
Lorena Bobbitt- temporary insanity
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Insanity as a Defense in Court

• Cary Stayner- The Yosemite Killer

Cary has a family connection to another
heinous crime the kidnap and rape of his
brother Steven, by Kenneth Parnell.
Cary Stayner pled NGRI, but was found guilty of
the murder of 3 women in Yosemite National Park.
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Infamous Cases
Prosenjit Poddar Jared Loughner
James Holmes Andrea Yates
John Hinckley Jr The Menendez Brothers
Dan White Josef Fritzl (Austria)
Cary Stayner Mary Winkler
Ted Bundy David Berkowitz
Ezra Pound Andrew Goldstein
Jennifer Bigham Anthony Sowell
John Evander Couey Lee Malvo
Jonathan Schmitz Lorena Bobbit