hebephrenia
- n a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior; usually becomes evident during puberty; the most common diagnostic category in mental institutions
 
- Several cases suffered from hebephrenia or catatonic schizophreniaconditions that are notoriously resistant to any treatment.
 - It sounds curiously unsteady, as if the poor girl in the song were cracking up under the strain, or suffering from hebephrenia.
 - In this era of escapism, mass alcoholism, counterfeit divorce decrees, hospitalized thousands of paranoia, hebephrenia and catatonia victims who are the victims of serious .