2. INTRODUCTION
• Term SCHIZOPHRENIA was coined in 1908 swiss
psychiatrist his name was Eugen Bleuler
• In 1986, Krapeline gave clinical description of
“Demention praecox”.
• Its consider as a huge mental disorder
• Disorgnised of thought
• Hallucination
• Delusions
• Greek Skhizo phren mind
• Bizarre behaviour
3. DEFINIATION
• Schizophrenia is defined by
• A group of mental disorder
• Deterionation in social,occupational, or
interpersonl relationship
• A group of characteristic postive and negative
symptoms
• Disorganization of personality of an individual.
The symptoms chiefly interfere with patients
thinking,emotional,and behaviour.
4. HISTORY
• In 1849, John Conolly mentioned that young
persons frequently fall in a state of somewhat
resembing melanchlia without any discoverable
sorrow or grief.
• Krpeline gave in 1896 clincal description of
dementia parecoz and calssified it into three
types.Hebephrenic,Catatonic and Paranoid in 1911
Bleuler used it as schizophrenia. He Described that
the harmoney of the personality was SPLIT. Bleuler
Described about schizophrenia it was simple
schizphprenia.
5. EPIDEMIOLOGY
• Occurrence- 0.3 percent to 1 percent of people
• Age- 15 and 45 years peak age is 30
• Sex Ration- Incidence in males and females is
almost the same
• Social Class- Reviewed literature shows that the
the incidence of shcizophrenia is higher in the
lower Socio-economic status group in
comparsion to the upper socio-economic group.
7. CAUSES
• Gentetic factors
• Psychosocial Factors
• Sociocultural Factors
• Organic Theory
• Vitamin Deficiency Theory
8. SIGN AND SYMPTOMS
• Hallucition
• Illucition
• Disorder of Activity
• Disturbance in Attention
• Disorder of thought
Bleulers Four A’s
Associative Disturbance or Looseness
Autism
Affective Incongruity
Ambivalence
9. TREATMENT
• Individual Psychotherapy
• Group Therapy
• Behaviour Therapy
• Social skills Training
• Relaxation Techniques
• Supportive Services
• Milieu Therapy
• Family Therapy
• Electro-Convulsive Therapy