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schizophrenia
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Object schizophrenia or self schizophrenia is a complication arising from delegation and related techniques in object-oriented programming , where self/this can refer to more than one object. By way of metaphor with the public confusion of dissociative ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE paranoid ▪ The trial was told that he was diagnosed as suffering paranoid schizophrenia . ▪ Attorneys say he may suffer from paranoid schizophrenia . ▪ His dad, Charles, was lovable and devoted, but afflicted with ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1912, from Modern Latin, literally "a splitting of the mind," from German Schizophrenie , coined in 1910 by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939), from Greek skhizein "to split" (see schizo- ) + phren (genitive phrenos ) "diaphragm, heart, mind," ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact [syn: schizophrenic disorder , schizophrenic psychosis , dementia praecox ]
Usage examples of schizophrenia.
What I learned now was that the LSD retreat and inward plunge can be compared to an essential schizophrenia, and the antinomianism of contemporary youth to a paranoid schizophrenia.
I learned now was that the LSD retreat and inward plunge can be compared to an essential schizophrenia, and the antinomianism of contemporary youth to a paranoid schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia, you know, was once thought to mean possession by devils, and hydrocephalic idiots were considered peculiarly blessed.
This is due to a determined hypothesis that the later stage of the ongoing disease of this Pandemic is that of psychosis simulating in otherwise normal people, that of schizophrenia, paranoia, perhaps violent episodes.
Famously ill geniuses include Dostoevsky, afflicted with epilepsy, and Van Gogh, who suffered from an undiagnosed disorder that could have been schizophrenia, epilepsy, or the ravages of advanced alcoholism.
The possibility that serotonin in excess produces schizophrenia is greatly weakened, nevertheless, by the fact that a compound very closely related to lysergic acid diethylamide interferes with serotonin oxidation even more and yet produces no hallucinations.
Barring a miracle, Sojee would be stuck with schizophrenia and tardive dyskinesia as long as she lived.
The voder had lost the ability to speak, both machines adrift in a stupefying realization that could only be described as the artificial intelligence equivalent of hebephrenic schizophrenia.
Metz could hint that Mariah has leprosy, schizophrenia, or this Munchausen by Proxy--anything, just so long as it makes Rothbottam sit back and reconsider.
In the spring of 1968 I was invited to deliver a series of talks on schizophrenia at the Esalen Institute at Big Sur, California.
I was invited to deliver a series of talks on schizophrenia at the Esalen Institute at Big Sur, California.
Labour government is always of two minds, it operates in a kind of schizophrenia.
Many people believe that schizophrenia is a postadolescent occurrence.
Soon he knew about the many forms of schizophrenia, as well as other psychoses, neuroses, paranoias, and an entire alphabet of phobias.
Meanwhile, Mainwaring was treating what he thought was schizophrenia with phenothiazines, which, when combined with the anticholinergics, toxified Jamey's nervous system further.