... , recognized schizophrenia as a separate mental illness. He described a distinct disorder in 1896 then called dementia praecox, meaning early insanity. The name we use today came about in 1911 by the Swiss physician Eugen Bleuler. This disturbing thought process has been described as "A loosening of the links between thoughts." Schizophrenia in literal translation means the splitting of the mind. The most prominent ... ...

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... 1896, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin grouped what were previously considered unrelated mental diseases under the term dementia praecox. It was not until 1908, however, that an influential essay by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler corrected Kraepelin's theory that the disease was an organic brain deterioration and thus incurable. Bleuler introduced the term schizophrenia to replace dementia praecox, emphasizing the dissociative phenomena ... ...

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