Synonyms for schizophrenia
ˌskɪt səˈfri ni ə, -ˈfrin yəschizophre·ni·a

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1. schizophrenianoun

   Synonyms:
   schizophrenic disorder, dementia praecox, schizophrenic psychosis

2. schizophrenianoun

   A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion.

   Synonyms:
   schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox, schizophrenic disorder

3. schizophrenianoun

   Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist.

   Synonyms:
   schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox, schizophrenic disorder

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1. schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecoxnoun

   any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact

   Synonyms:
   schizophrenic disorder, dementia praecox, schizophrenic psychosis

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1. List of paraphrases for "schizophrenia":

   schizophrenic

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1. schizophrenia

   Synonyms:
   295 DSM-IV

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1. Amit Etkin:

   That concept of schizophrenia has been around for a while and linked to this kind of system, but people never really stepped back look at the forest for the trees and asked whether the same kind of process is in place across psychiatric disorders.

2. Donald Goff:

   It seemed as though there's something about either the illness of schizophrenia or possibly medications that causes them to be at really high risk of mortality.

3. E.L. Doctorow:

   Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

4. Damon Raskin:

   I have seen firsthand how the pressure of fame and stardom can trigger vulnerable kids to develop both bad behavior and mental illness, it is the stress for those with poor coping skills that can then lead to acting out. For those with the right genetics, this can trigger illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia.

5. Amit Etkin:

   If we get out of our box of thinking depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder are things that have one set of treatments and start to look at the boxes nearby and draw on tools from those other boxes, that can’t hurt our patient, [It can] only help our ability to treat clinically but also from the research side, [entice] us to think differently about what kind of circuitry to try to intervene with to help people.