... was commonly described as "madness." The Bible, for example, speaks of King Saul's mad rages and terrors, and of David feigning madness in order to escape his enemies. In 1911 Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coined new term "schizophrenia," by combining Greek words that mean "split mind." Bleuler meant this name to imply: 1) A fragmentation of the thought process 2) A split between thoughts and ... ...

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... 1800"s Emil Kraeplin, a German psychiatrist, discovered the illness. Kraeplin named the mystery illness dementia praecox--early insanity (Young, 1988, p.20). The illness received the name schizophrenia in 1911; Eugene Bluer, a Swiss psychiatrist gave schizophrenia its name. The word "schizophrenia" has a Greek origin that loosely translates its meaning to "splitting of the mind." Due to its literal meaning, many people often confuse ... ...

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