How would Freud explain schizophrenia?

How would you explain schizophrenia to a young child?

"Schizophrenia is a disease that makes you not be able to think very well. If you have schizophrenia, you might think that people are trying to hurt you even if they aren't. You also might hear or see things that aren't there."

Was Sigmund Freud diagnosed as being schizophrenic?

No, Sigmund Freud was not diagnosed as being schizophrenic. He is known for his work in psychoanalysis and his theories on personality development and the unconscious mind, not for having schizophrenia.

What is sigmund freuds theory on schizophrenia?

For many years now there has been a continuing and sustained criticism of Freud's (1911) hypothesis that the basic disorder in schizophrenia consists in the patient's inability to maintain the libidinal cathexis of objects. The fact that patients suffering from the two principal types of schizophrenia present signs of real and fantasy object relationships has been taken as evidence that the illness cannot be based on a decathexis of object representations. This contradiction is easily dispelled if account is taken of the real likelihood that these object relationships, which are mostly of a pathological kind, represent a spontaneous tendency towards recovery. They are therefore secondary to the primary disorder and a reaction to it. In the original theory Freud (1911) described the flight of the libidinal cathexis from the love object in schizophrenia as a form of repression. After the introduction of the structural theory (Freud, 1923) he dropped the term 'repression'

How would a biological psychologist explain the symptoms of a schizophrenia patient?

A biological psychologist would say that people with schizophrenia act like they do because of abnormalities in the brain. Hallucinations might be attributed to abnormalities of the temporal lobe. Breakdown of the frontal lobe may cause disorganized behavior.

How do you file a case against wife who is a divorcee and suffers from schizophrenia?

A case for what? Please explain.

How do you use schizophrenia in a sentence?

Schizophrenia is a noun, so you use it as you would any other noun (when it is appropriate). Example: Joe developed schizophrenia last spring.

What is adolescent schizophrenia?

Paranoid schizophrenia is a mental health disorder in which the person believes that he or she is being persecuted when he or she is not, shows a pervasive (continuing) pattern of this, and has those beliefs when most people would say that there is no reason to believe that the person is being persecuted. If John believed that people at work were trying to hurt him and were always talking behind his back, then that would be an indication that John had paranoid schizophrenia. Paranoid adolescent schizophrenia would be paranoid schizophrenia in teenagers, not in adults.

How was Freud influenced by the Romantic Movement?

He wasn't; Sigmund Freud was an atheist intellectual scholar to the core. He was as fanatical about science, as Muslim terrorists are about destroying the United States. Sigmund Freud was one of those "reason" people; it was part of his fascination with the human brain. The reason Freud used symbolism and the things he is famous for to explain how the brain worked, was rooted largely in how the technology did not exist yet to properly analyze the brain. Freud once stated, that with 100 billion neurons and an unlimited number of connections, it would be impossible, for several centuries or now, several hundred years, to understand the brain without an abstract explanation. Freud was well familiar with mathematics and the physics of his day; as a college student in the 1890's he lived in a time period of technological and scientific revolution. Romanticism, was not in Freud's mind at all. The main problem with using Physics, or any form of mathematics to explain the workings of the human mind, lies in trying to use any form of human reasoning, to try to explain God. See, consider the logistical numerical nightmare modern Physics is; you would have an even bigger nightmare, if you tried to explain the workings of the human brain. The only solution Freud himself could come up with, was to use abstraction, additionally, his Psychoanalysis was never meant to be a science in its own right, but rather another field of medicine. Freud meant his Psychoanalysis to be something akin to being a Chiropractor; before studying Psychology, Freud firmly believed you first had to be a doctor. Owing to this the answer is no; Freud was not influenced by the Romantic movement.

Is schizophrenia terminal?

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder. It is not a condition that causes any sort of physical sickness that would lead to death.

What is the connection between Hamlet and Everyman and Mankind?

Freud's theory of the Oedipus complex might explain Hamlet's behavior.

Was Sigmund Freud schizophrenic?

There is no evidence to suggest that Sigmund Freud was schizophrenic. He is known for his contributions to psychoanalysis and the development of theories around the unconscious mind, but there is no documented history of schizophrenia in his case.

What type of schizophrenia is an inappropriate affective behavior?

This would probably be hebephrenic schizophrenia (also known as disorganized schizophrenia). However, all types of schizophrenia by definition have inappropriate affect. Hebephrenia is simply the most obvious and severe form that is based on an affective disorder.