On 01/12/2008, at 6:21 AM, M.A. wrote:
> Is it the connotation of "schizophrenic" that you don't like? The term schizophrenic is an incredibly misused/misunderstood adjective. It specifically DOES NOT mean multiple personality (disorder) which is the common coin usage (ie not in a medico- diagnostic context) Please help out by using some other word or term: perhaps "split existence" or "multiple instantiation" which conveys graphically what you mean. Perhaps there is another single word. From the Wikipedia article on Schizophrenia: The word schizophrenia—which translates roughly as "splitting of the mind" and comes from the Greek roots schizein(σχίζειν, "to split") and phrēn, phren- (φρήν, φρεν-, "mind")[187]—was coined by Eugen Bleuler in 1908 and was intended to describe the separation of function between personality, thinking, memory, and perception. Bleuler described the main symptoms as 4 A's: flattened Affect, Autism, impaired Association of ideas and Ambivalence.[188] Bleuler realized that the illness was not a dementia as some of his patients improved rather than deteriorated and hence proposed the term schizophrenia instead. The term schizophrenia is commonly misunderstood to mean that affected persons have a "split personality". Although some people diagnosed with schizophrenia may hear voices and may experience the voices as distinct personalities, schizophrenia does not involve a person changing among distinct multiple personalities. The confusion arises in part due to the meaning of Bleuler's term schizophrenia (literally "split" or "shattered mind"). The first known misuse of the term to mean "split personality" was in an article by the poet T. S. Eliot in 1933.[189] Kim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
