W świat psychozy. Zaburzenia schizofreniczne w filmach "Pająk" (Spider) oraz "Piękny umysł"

Abstract

In the chapter the schizophrenia was analysed according to international statistical classifcations of disorders (ICD‑10 and DSM‑IV‑TR). There were introduced a biological (genetical and connected with damages in nervous system), cognitive (connected with attention, memory, thought, and language abnormalities), mental (fear, autism, delusional vision of the world) and phenomenological aspects of functioning of person with schizophrenic disorders. In a synthetical manner a description of psychodynamic, humanistic and systems psychology theories of initiation and maintainance of schizophrenic symptoms. Selected aspects of discussed disorder were illustrated by examples from two movies: Beautiful mind (directed by Ron Howard) and Spider (directed by David Cronenberg).