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Symptoms of disease - violation of psychopathology

Psychopathology (from the Greek pathos - suffering, illness) - the branch of psychology that studies painful change of mentality. Studying the regularities of change and the collapse of the psyche, psychopathology compare them with the nature of the course of normal mental activity.

Psychopathology, along with somatopsychologie and neuropsychology, is an integral part of clinical psychology. Psychopathology most closely borders on psychiatry, in particular - with psychopathology. Although the names of these disciplines are from the same Greek root, however, the community of the «object» of study (which acts as a violation of the psyche), between them there are significant differences.

In psychopathology received the development of the concept of psychopathology syndromes violations of cognitive, motivational-strong-willed and personal sphere in mental illness.

On Korsacova, «clinical-psychological syndrome» - it is naturally occurring combination of the symptoms of cognitive processes or person, in the basis of which is caused by the painful process of the lack of a unifying their level in the system-structural structure of the psyche. Clinico-psychological syndrome of the author considers in the context of two approaches - psychopathology and neuropsychological. In psychopathology Central place occupies the search for a common link violations of higher mental functions, lying in the basis of development of individual symptoms in the realization of such functions. For example, syndromes forming radical in schizophrenia can be a violation of the motivation, the consequence of which is characteristic of the disease changes (or features) of thinking, perception, memory, etc.

Which diseases there is violation of psychopathology

From a number of psychopathology violations of the highest importance in the clinic (Bleicher, crook) have the following:

- Schizophrenic, or dissociative symptom - sum of these individual-motivational disorders, as changes in the structure of the hierarchy of motives, a violation of the focus of thinking (logic-chopping, diversity, etc.); the emotional-volitional disorders, a change of self-esteem and self-consciousness (autism, alienation, etc.).

- Somehow psychopathic (personality-abnormal) symptom - is the sum of the emotional-volitional disorders, changes in the structure of the hierarchy of motives, the inadequacy of the level of ambition and self-esteem, violations of thinking catathymic type, violations of forecasting and relying on the experience of the past (in the clinic - accentuation and psychopathic personality and resulting in significantly abnormal soil psychogenic reactions).

Organic (Exo - and endogenous) - symptom complexes, consist of the symptoms of reduction of intelligence, the collapse of the system of their previous knowledge and experience, violations of memory, attention, operational side of thinking; instability of emotions; a decrease of the critical abilities (in the clinic that correspond to the exogenously-organic affection of the brain - cerebral atherosclerosis; the consequences of craniocerebral traumas; substance abuse and other diseases, as well as «endogenous " organic» disorder type true epilepsy, primary atrophic processes in the brain.

- Oligophrenic symptom - is the sum of the inability to training, the formation of concepts, abstracting, lack of shared information and knowledge, simplicity and concreteness of thinking, increased suggestibility and emotional disorders.

Which doctor should I contact if there is a violation of psychopathology

• Psychiatrist

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Disorders by category

Disorders by alphabet

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