The individual's interpretation of these relationships, both conscious and unconscious, becomes the basis for later relations with others, in friendship, marriage, and raising a family. ... As a result, the infant has to split off parts of itself and repress them. ... For example, an "all bad" internal object may be split off and projectively disavowed so that the patient actually recreates a childhood relationship with an abusive parent in the transference-countertransference dimensions of the psychotherapy. ...

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Hence, the typical view of a schizophrenic is that of an individual with split personalities. ... Schizophrenia itself is defined as being "a psychotic disorder usually characterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations, and accompanied in varying degrees by other emotional, behavioral, or intellectual disturbances", and therefore is entirely unrelated to the somewhat common misconception of a split personality. ...

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Schizophrenia is not a split personality. ... Other cost, such as loss of individual potential, personal anguish, and family hardship are impossible to measure. ... Schizophrenia does appear more regularly in some families, but many people with schizophrenia have no family history of the illness. ... The pain of schizophrenia is further accentuated by the person's awareness of the worry and suffering they may be causing their family and friends. ...

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Schizophrenia is a highly complex and yet particularly prevalent neuropsychiatric illness. It is a chronic disease in which the senses of reality, thoughts, and perception are distorted to varying degrees. Although most people associate mind disorders with the poor and homeless, this psychotic dis...

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