This week in abnormal psychology we talked and watched a video about schizophrenia. The video showed three people talking to a therapist and I think that in these particular interviews it was clear that these clients thought processes were not clear because it was hard to interpret different aspects of the conversation. Chapter 12 covers a lot of information about this subject and talks about the subtypes of schizophrenia as well. There are three different kinds of divisions of schizophrenia paranoid which would be symptoms of delusions of grandeur or persecution, disorganized or hebephrenic which would be symptoms of silly or immature emotionality and catatonic schizophrenia which according to Durand and Barlow consists of symptoms of alternate immobility and excited agitation. I think that in the video that we watched that I saw mostly symptoms of paranoid and disorganized schizophrenia among the three clients that were interviewed. Mental health workers usually use a classification system to make the process of identifying symptoms less complicated. The prevalence of schizophrenia is equal among men and women and it is estimated that about 0.2 to 1.5 percent of the population are schizophrenic. Schizophrenia is a biological condition that can have many different types of symptoms, which I think are important to learn more about in the field of psychology.