schizophrenic

In popular usage, “schizophrenic” (and the more slangy and now dated “schizoid”) indicates “split between two attitudes.” This drives people with training in psychiatry crazy. “Schizo-” does indeed mean “split,” but it is used here to mean “split off from reality.” Someone with a Jekyll-and-Hyde personality is suffering from “multiple personality disorder” (or, more recently “dissociative identity disorder”), not “schizophrenia.”

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Definitions

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• n  someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia
• s  suffering from some form of schizophrenia
  schizophrenic patients
• a  of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia

News & Articles

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• Attorney Says Schizophrenic Woman Was Unmedicated When She Pushed 84-Year-Old Woman Onto Gold Line Tracks
  The defense attorney for a woman who shoved an elderly woman to her death on the Gold Line tracks nearly three years ago says that her client is a schizophrenic woman who had just been released from a hospital three days earlier and had not been taking her medicine. [ more › ]
  June 14, 2013 - LAist
• Defense: LA homeless woman who pushed 84-year-old to her death was unmedicated schizophrenic
  LOS ANGELES — A defense attorney told a jury Thursday that a homeless woman who pushed an 84-year-old woman off a train platform to her death was an unmedicated schizophrenic who had been released from a hospital three days earlier.
  June 13, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
• Schizophrenia claimed in LA train platform killing
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A defense attorney told a jury Thursday that a homeless woman who pushed an 84-year-old woman off a train platform to her death was an unmedicated schizophrenic who had been released from a hospital three days earlier.
  June 13, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News