History Of Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is the name of a psychiatric diagnosis, which describes the characteristics of some abnormal mental disordered perception. This name is retrieved from the Greek words ‘skhizein’, which mean ‘to split’ and ‘phren’, which mean ‘mind’. Its common symptoms are haphazard opinion and speech, strange delusions or paranoid, hearing hallucination and noteworthy working and social dysfunction.
These symptoms are usually found in 0.4 to 0.6 percentage of young adulthood population. Social processes, psychological, neurobiology, early environment, and genetics are typical contributing factors of the symptoms from studies. In addition, some prescribed and entertaining drugs cause the symptoms or deteriorate it.
Eugen Bleuler named the disease as ‘Schizophrenia’, because it has numerous distinct syndromes. This term normally and inaccurately has been confused as multiple individuality order. These types of syndromes were rare prior to 1800s according to the history of Schizophrenia. However, there were some unmanageable, meaningless, or unreasonable behaviors usual at that time. The literatures of ancient Greek and Rome contains some descriptions of psychosis, but it has no association with the criteria of schizophrenia. At some stage in the Middle Ages psychological and Arabic medical literatures were reported to have some strange psychotic behaviors and beliefs, which were some how comparable to the symptoms of schizophrenia.
In 1853, Benedict Morel, described the schizophrenia as a discrete syndrome commonly affecting the young adults and teenagers for the first time. The major obstacle for the recovery from the schizophrenia is identified as the social stigma. According to a study in 1999, persons with schizophrenia according to 12.8 percent of Americans were thought to be vicious to others. While 48.1 percent of them believe they were somewhat likely to violent and 74 percent people said that these people were not able to make a decision. The Movie world also describes some of the stories of symptoms of schizophrenia like the book and movie “A Beautiful Mind”, which record in a factual and detailed way the life style of John Forbes Nash, a schizophrenia patient and also a Noble Prize winner mathematician.
Also in an Indian movie titled “Devrai”, Schizophrenia has been represented in a broad way. This film describes the struggles, mentality, and behavior of the patient and his loved ones. Australian columnist Anne Deveson described the story of battle between her son and the schizophrenia in her book “Tell me I’m Here”, which was later converted into a film.
Originally posted 2009-04-25 17:05:05.