Please use the article below to answer these questions (10-20), ensuring your response is thorough and accurate.
Part I: Reading for key details.
Questions:
10.) Define “conversion” in the context of this article:
11.) What is the DSM and what is its purpose? Who uses it? How is it designed?
12.) What is psychosis risk syndrome and why is it hard to diagnose? What are some of the signs of impending psychosis that McGlahsan and his team identified, in order to make this process easier, and possibly save lives?
13.) What were some new phrases Anna had to create in order to describe her symptoms? Why did she have to invent new words?
14.) What does Anna mean when she says: “I defined myself in opposition to that backdrop of illogicality”?
15.) What are some normal questions psychiatrists might ask someone at risk of psychosis?
16.) What were some of the attempted cures of schizophrenia from the past?
17.) Why was Melanie’s Grandfather not able to catch his psychotic break?
18.) What does McGlashan mean when he says “We were building castles, sand castles”? What type of figurative language is that?
18.) What was McGlashan and his team able to accomplish?
19.) Why was Melanie luckier than her grandfather? What does this show about those hoping to be cured of psychosis?
20.) Why is the DSM an inadequate resource?
Part II: Understanding Each Case
Write down the character name, find the evidence, answer the questions of each row, and fill in the blanks. (3 characters minimum)
What was it like for this person to have a psychotic break?
Evidence
Was this person diagnosed with an illness? How?
Please use text evidence in your response.
Could this person’s illness have been prevented? Now that it exists, can it be cured?
Please use text evidence in your response.
Anna
Anna felt very confused.
Anna felt overwhelmed.
1.) “[She] kept monitoring her own perceptions, wondering whether they didn’t have some ‘tinge of unreality.’ She searched for a narrative that would explain why the world was being transformed.”
2.) Once, with her friends, she became so overwhelmed by the task of physically forming the sounds of words that she lost the ability to speak. She knew what she wanted to say, but she couldn’t will herself to make such odd little noises.
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