A-Level Psychology (AQA): Psychological Explanations for Schizophrenia

Covers theories of family dysfunction and cognitive explanations.
Includes The schizophrenogenic mother, Double bind hypothesis, Negative expressed emotion, meta-representation and central control.

OUTLINE ONLY. Evaluation video below.

Ideal for first time learning and revision.

[hafsahkhan]

I’ve watched nearly all of your videos, they’re so helpful! Thank you ! I hope to look forward to more

[sammyjo]

I'll can say from personal experience, while the frameworks here are onto something, society is the most double-binding entity to exist - i.e. our social constructs, our socioeconomic demands, it all sends conflicting messages. How our families, our mothers, have adapted to such is still but just a reflection of the objective reality of how humans operate under colonial culture and the ongoing double-binding trap for those of us with more objective-based thinking, those of us with particular genetically wired cognitive profiles that arent as adaptable to or dont have circumstances that allow us to adapt to the chronic mixed messages... Less of a personally subjective experience perhaps you could say (which i say hesitantly only in my wording due to the inevitability of technically subjective perception in the isolated, singular consciousness of the human disposition).

What im saying also accounts for and can dimensionally explain the connections betwen autism, schizo-spectrum disorders, and disordered traits. As cliche or even froo-froo as it may sound, we're adapting to a sick society, and those without adaptive faculties to such are then infected, inflicted, with the symptoms of our cultural functioning. We're mirrors that society cant quite figure out what they're seeing nor know the image is flipflopped - still in the infancy of that discovery like a baby staring into a plastic crib mirror in confusion.

All the neuropsychologically normative bottom line is though is adapt to social functioning or die for now, because that is the reality of it, so we have pills slung at us when we cant contend with the crippling anxiety of our psychosis and don't have the time or faculties to educate ourselves as to why this subconsciously informed phenomenon is experienced in the ways we process it. Hyperindividual accountability is killing us because its not just our families gaslighting us and double-binding us, though thats also to be expected when cognitive styles and patterns are heritable but generational buildup of oxidative stress and then selective mating makes it harder and harder to adapt culturally, resulting in the eventual development of that family member(s) that's the weakest link, taking on the repercussions of strained adaptive processes in our family dynamics due to a better initial grasp on objective observation until the pressure starts frying our brains and wrecking our experience of self and other - driving us "crazy."

What im saying is that western, colonial culture is psychosocially a highly narcissitic and antisocial demand on all of us functionally, and some of us cant download that operating system "correctly."

More funding should be put into linguistic processing and further analyzing "theory of mind" and exploring ToM in schizophrenia study, and i believe what im saying from experience may become more and more evident to us. We still make a few phrenological presumptions of brain localities and synaptic purposes, as well as crudely misunderstanding the difference between actual empathy/perspective switching and the role of communication cues in ToM (or at least thats what our literature reflects).

[milestonekennedy]

It's the part of your brain that knows about activity based costing. It's your accounting process. *steals your files and runs!*

[evadeniz]

do we need to know all 3 types of family dysfunction

[aoy]

do we need to know about cognitive biases and deficits? :)