What is "schizophrenic"

Usage examples of "schizophrenic".

As with the schizophrenic who cannot handle an overabundance of sensory input, information remains unassociated in his mind.

These schizophrenic percentages resolve themselves into the thesis of the rabbis that Judaism, Trotskyist Bolshevism, and Americanism are one and the same.

And when a character does not die, when he or she is neither consumptive, nor epileptic, nor hysterical, nor paranoid, nor schizophrenic, nor alcoholic, nor a sick prostitute, nor a sexual pervert, there is still evidence of morbid behaviour: sudden pallor, vivid blushes, burning eyes, trembling and fits, swoons.

He had a history of withdrawal and fragmentary delusions, and was diagnosed as schizophrenic of the disorganized or hebephrenic type.

One could have a more fruitful discussion with a paranoid schizophrenic about his tinfoil hat than with liberals about Soviet spies crawling through Democratic administrations at the onset of the Cold War.

He suffers every day from schizophrenic disjunctions between the real and the imaginary, between self and other, between vitalism and mechanism, between mind and body.

Must also persuade Fawcett to get me data on the incidence of goitre in imbeciles, schizophrenics especially.

In all the course of my practices, I have never seen a schizophrenic junky, and junkies are mostly of the schizo physical type.

Nightmare Theater had been an early attempt to shock schizophrenics back into the objective world by rendering the phantasy world into which they were withdrawing uninhabitable.

The walls were lined with gaudy but antiquated medical apparatus: a sedative-bath machine, an electric chair for administering shock treatment to schizophrenics, an EKG analyzer for tracing psychotic patterns, old optical and electronic microscopes.

Might it be, Durastanti had suggested, that schizophrenics are tuning in to alternative, multiple realities?

When that is the case, there is a cut-off, the individual is thrown back on himself, and he is in prime shape for that psychotic break-away that will turn him into either an essential schizophrenic in a padded cell, or a paranoid screaming slogans at large, in a bughouse without walls.

Mitchell is trying to settle a credit-card dispute on his distinctive cellphone, which is not a headset phone per se but consists of an earplug and a tiny hanging podular thing he holds to his mouth with two fingers to speak, a device that manages to make him look simultaneously deaf and schizophrenic.

The intense anger and schizophrenic behavior of people who have 'freaked out' on amphetamines are the result of the amphetamines causing the brain to produce way more than the normal amount of dopamine, a chemical that the emotional brain normally produces only in very small amounts.

Had she really analyzed the schizophrenic trauma of the human mind in the Corvi shell?