Ông Là một bệnh nhân tại Bệnh viện Bethlem trong những năm 1920. Chẳng hạn như bức tranh luận án, nào là gợi ý đảo lộn, Rối loạn tri giác và thị giác bất thường của ảnh hưởng, thực hiện như là minh họa có Bee | Figure Cats by Louis Wain 1860-1939 . Wain was a British artist who became famous for his drawings of cats. He was a patient at the Bethlem Hospital in the 1920s. Paintings such as these which are suggestive of disorganization visual perceptual disturbances and abnormalities of affect have been taken as illustrative of his psychological decline although more recent scholarship suggests that they were not out of keeping with contemporary design practice. Reproduced with kind permission of the Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum Beckenham Kent UK THE CHRONIC ILLNESS Eventually even without treatment the acute symptoms of schizophrenia usually resolve. Unfortunately this does not always mean that the patient will fully recover. Over 50 of patients diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia will show evidence of a significant degree of negative symptomatology. Furthermore in chronic schizophrenia positive symptoms also frequently remain although they tend not to predominate. Negative symptoms may also be seen in the acute episode and their onset can often precede as one form of schizophrenic prodrome the development of typical positive symptoms. Negative symptoms are multifactorial in origin. Primary negative symptoms may be difficult to distinguish from those secondary to florid positive NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS Poverty of speech Restriction in the amount of spontaneous speech and in the information contained in speech alogia . Flattening of affect Restriction in the experience and expression of emotion. Anhedonia-asociality Inability to experience pleasure few social contacts and social withdrawal. Avolition-apathy Reduced drive energy and interest. Attentional impairment Inattentiveness at work and interview. 2002 CRC Press LLC Figure Broach shizophrene by Bryan Charnley. Bryan Charnley illustrated the experience of psychosis in many striking artworks including a series of self-portraits painted as he came off medication see Figure . Reproduced with .
