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Schizophrenia is a mental disorder [17] [7] characterized variously by hallucinations (typically, hearing voices), delusions, disorganized thinking and behavior, [10] and flat or inappropriate affect. [7]
This is a list of people, living or dead, accompanied by verifiable source citations associating them with schizophrenia, either based on their own public statements, or (in the case of dead people only) reported contemporary or posthumous diagnoses of schizophrenia. Remember that schizophrenia is an illness that varies with severity.
Schizophreniform disorder is a type of mental illness that is characterized by psychosis and closely related to schizophrenia.Both schizophrenia and schizophreniform disorder, as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), have the same symptoms and essential features except for two differences: the level of functional impairment and the duration of symptoms.
Schizoaffective disorder; Schizoid personality disorder; Schizophrenia and tobacco smoking; Schizophrenia Research Foundation; Schizophreniform disorder; Schizothymia; Schizotypal personality disorder; Schizotypy; Sense of agency; Sex differences in schizophrenia; Simple-type schizophrenia; Sluggish schizophrenia; Social psychiatry; Soteria ...
Paul Eugen Bleuler (/ ˈ b l ɔɪ l ər / BLOY-lər, [1] Swiss Standard German: [ˈɔʏɡeːn ˈblɔʏlər, ˈɔʏɡn̩-]; 30 April 1857 – 15 July 1939) [2] was a Swiss psychiatrist and humanist [3] [4] most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness.
Diagnosis of schizophrenia from non-psychotic disorders Sensitivity 61.8 (51.7, 71.0) Specificity 94.1 (88.0, 97.2) 55% (19% to 89%) With a prevalence of 55%, 55 out of every 100 people with non-psychotic disorders will have schizophrenia. Of these, 21 will not be identified as having schizophrenia by use of FRS (38% of 55).
Symptoms in Schizophrenia, a 1938 silent film. Basic symptoms of schizophrenia are subjective symptoms, described as experienced from a person's perspective, which show evidence of underlying psychopathology. Basic symptoms have generally been applied to the assessment of people who may be at risk to develop psychosis. Though basic symptoms are ...
Dementia praecox was reconstituted as schizophrenia, paranoia was renamed as delusional disorder and manic-depressive insanity as bipolar disorder (epilepsy was transferred from psychiatry to neurology). The 'mental symptoms' included under the concept schizophrenia are real enough, affect people, and will always need understanding and treatment.