Meaning of paraschizophrenia | Babel Free

Definitions

Borderline schizophrenia.

uncountable

Examples

“Relation of schizophrenia to constitutional mental weakness ; identity of mental debility from constitutional lack of sense⟳ and reality, and paraschizophrenia.”

“This is a good layman's description of environment-motivated and finally consciously induced paraschizophrenia - 'madness as lubricant", in Karen Horney's famous phrase.”

“Zurabashvili has made a special clinical-psychopathological analysis of schizophrenia-like conditions of a reactive origin; these conditions, which he designates as paraschizophrenia, are close⟳ to schizophrenia, but radically differ⟳ from its true forms in their clinical picture and prognosis. Cases of paraschizophrenia make⟳ up that positive factual material which certain foreign psychiatrists fo not wish⟳ to see⟳”

“onset schizophrenia0like⟳ psychosis (onset after 60 years). These received a mixed welcome⟳. I think⟳ we made the latter group's name⟳ too long but as we discovered at the 1998 Consensus meeting, it is difficult to be unambiguous in such a title without being long-winded. At the meeting, Nancy Andreasen with her quick journalist's eye for a snappy title suggested that we should call⟳ such cases 'paraschizophrenia' and, although this did not attract⟳ much support⟳ at the time, the more I think⟳ about this the more I”

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