dementia praecox : Definition, Usages, News and More
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dementia praecox
n any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
Richard Noll, PhD Dr Noll is Associate Professor of Psychology at DeSales University in Center Valley, Pa. His most recent book, American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press; 2011), was the winner of the 2012 Cheiron Book Prize and a 2012 BMA Medical Book Award, Highly Commended in Psychiatry, from the British Medical Association.
Dec. 6, 2013 - Psychiatric Times