Schizophrenia and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde :: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Schizophrenia and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The anticipate schizophrenia is derived from schizo, which means splitting of the mind (Tsuang 11), and phrenia which is derived from the phrenic ara which is on the button above the kidneys where the diaphragm is located. It is a structure innervated by the phrenic nerve. The Greeks and others mistaken that the phrenic argona was the seat of thought or at to the lowest degree feelings (Berle 12). Up to the 1600s, people with psychotic disorders were sent off in ships of fools, locked in cages, flogged into reason, or killed. The care for the insane at this time was the debt instrument of nuns and monks (Noll, xviii). In the 1700s, mad doctors or doctors specializing in the mentally ill. They began to devise their proclaim unique classification system for mental disorders. Many cases of what we would now claim schizophrenia were probably classified under one or much of these early attempts to devise a more scienti fic method of savvy mental illness(Noll, xix). Doctors at this time described the symptoms of schizophrenia about differently (Berle, 14). In 1809, the first clinical descriptions of schizophrenia were written by J. Haslam, however, later it was found that he described a disease called hebephrenia. some(a) symptoms he allowd were loss of memory, more prevalent in females, predisposition blunted, onset at puberty, unconnected with heredity, cyclic, no affection towards parents, inactivity, apathetic, inattention to cleanliness, etcetera (Berle 4,5). There is still no unanimously accepted definition of schizophrenia, and considerable differences exist between the narrowest and widest definition (Tsuang 13). It is a disease that includes a incumbrance in cognition that renders the individual out of touch with reality. Emotions are distorted in schizophrenia and they are typified by being socially withdrawn (Lahey 555). The characteristic symptoms start between the age of 18 and 30. Symptoms include hallucinations and/or delusions. Hallucinations can have various modes. Auditory hallucinations are the intimately normal. These may involve hearing a voice or voices talking to each other and/or to the patient. Visual hallucinations are less common and involve the patient believing they see an object that is not present. haptic hallucinations are the least common and involve the patient thinking that soul or something is touching them (Nienhuis). Delusions are false or irrational beliefs that are firmly held despite obvious evidence to the contrary. Most common are persecutory, grandiose, and religious delusions.