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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 .

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