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PSY 340 Schizophrenia

Overview of schizophrenia, its symptoms, and treatment approaches.

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    Running head: SCHIZOPHRENIA 1 Schizophrenia PSY 340 How has the understanding of schizophrenia evolved from ancient civilizations to modern psychiatry, and what are the key biological and therapeutic approaches used in treating schizophrenia today? (Word count: 500 - 600 words)

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    SCHIZOPHRENIA 2 Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is depict ed as a mental disease, in which a person endure s indistinguishable thoughts , hallucinations, and lessen ed skills to feel ordinary emotions. Schizophrenia is classified as a disease in which a person’s ability are to process feelings, observations, emotions , and p erformance 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 account s 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, d ementia, and thought disorder usual in schizophrenia is express ed in the Book of Hearts. The h eart 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. C itizens that believed of this mental disorder was normally categorized as being caused by de mons or evil spirits that could only be cured by exorcising the person (Mathias, 2011) . The s igns of schizophrenia have been portrayed in many other countries besides Egypt . T here 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 diagno s e for schizophrenia in these culture s . They just did not have the education or knowledge to know of this disorders and then classify them

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