AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Delusional disorder was first introduced by Emil Kraepelin, a German psychiatrist, in the year 1883. In the year 1977 Winokur redescribed paranoia under the name of delusional disorder.

Detailed explanation-2: -Definition. Although non-specific concepts of madness have been around for several thousand years, the psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers was the first to define the four main criteria for a belief to be considered delusional in his 1913 book General Psychopathology.

Detailed explanation-3: -The patient expresses the delusional belief(s) with unusual force and persistence, and the belief or beliefs exert and inordinate effect on the patient’s life, often altering or dominating it. Despite profound conviction about the delusion, the patient is often secretive or suspicious in discussing it.

Detailed explanation-4: -The term “schizophrenia” was coined by Eugen Bleuler around 1910, and roughly translates to “splitting of the mind”, a term not meant to suggest a split personality, but to describe a separation of psychological functions: cognition, percept and affect.

Detailed explanation-5: -Paul Eugen Bleuler and the origin of the term schizophrenia (SCHIZOPRENIEGRUPPE)