Highlighting Basics and Updates in Descriptive Psychopathology: Systematic Review

Abstract

SUMMARY P sychopathology is the systematic study of abnormal experience, cognition and behaviour the study of the products of a disordered mind. It includes the explanatory psychopathologies, in which there are assumed explanations according to theoretical constructs, and descriptive psychopathology, which is the precise description, categorization and definition of abnormal experiences as recounted by the patient and observed in his behavior (Oyebode, 2015). Consciousness is a state of awareness of the self and the environment (Casey et al., 2007). Unconsciousness it is the fact that individual is unconscious to the world, that is he is unarousable and unable to participate with his awareness of the sensory world (Oyebode, 2015). Social Behavior is the range of actions made by human beings in conjunction with their environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the physical environment. Motor behavior: Psychiatric illness may be associated with objective or subjective motor disorders. Subjective motor disorders: Normally humans experience their actions as being their own and as being under their own control, although this sense of personal control is never in the forefront of consciousness, except intoxication with substance or fatigue, obsessions and compulsions, schizophrenia (delusions of passivity) (Casey et al., 2007). Objective motor disorder: motor disorders can be broadly grouped into the following: Disorders of adaptive movements (Disorders of expressive movement, Disorders of reactive movement, Disorders of goal directed movement), disorders of non-adaptive movements (Spontenous movement, abnormal induced movement) motor speech disturbances, disorders of posture, abnormal complex patterns of behavior, movement disorders associated with antipsychotic medication (Casey et al., 2007).