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Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is classified into two categories, acute and critical and three subtypes including catatonic, paranoid, and disorganized. The disease that came to be termed schizophrenia was first described by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in the 1890s, but it remains one of the most tragic and mysterious of mental illnesses (Abramowitz, 2001). Kraepelin believed that all psychiatric disorders were caused by organic factors, and that the onset of the disease occurred early in the life of the individual. He called it dementia praecox. However, Eugene Bluer, a Swiss psychiatrist believed that the disorder didn't necessary have an early onset and that the disorder didn't necessarily lead to total dementia. Since he believed that the disorder didn't lead to total dementia the term dementia praecox was no longer valid, so in 1908 Bleuler suggested a new term for the condition Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a word derived from the Greek Language. The first word,...

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