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Paraschizophrenia

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Paraschizophrenia is a noun meaning Borderline schizophrenia.

Meaning

Borderline schizophrenia.

Example Sentences

Relation of schizophrenia to constitutional mental weakness ; identity of mental debility from constitutional lack of sense and reality, and paraschizophrenia.
This is a good layman's description of environment-motivated and finally consciously induced paraschizophrenia - 'madness as lubricant", in Karen Horney's famous phrase.
Zurabashvili has made a special clinical-psychopathological analysis of schizophrenia-like conditions of a reactive origin; these conditions, which he designates as paraschizophrenia, are close to schizophrenia, but radically differ from its true forms in their clinical picture and prognosis. Cases of paraschizophrenia make up that positive factual material which certain foreign psychiatrists fo not wish to see

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include schizomania, cyclophrenia, schizodepression, pseudoschizophrenia, schizophrenia, taboparalysis.

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