{"id":296,"date":"2015-04-08T13:01:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T13:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alamaya.net?page_id=296"},"modified":"2015-04-22T13:47:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T13:47:39","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alamaya.net\/en\/schizophrenia\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='full_slider_1'  class='avia-fullwidth-slider main_color avia-shadow   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_heading  avia-builder-el-first   container_wrap fullsize'  ><div  class='avia-slideshow av-av_slideshow_full-4f3ef5c0d0c5e5a45e27d5f99336c2be avia-slideshow-featured av_slideshow_full avia-slide-slider av-slideshow-ui av-control-default av-slideshow-manual av-loop-once av-loop-manual-endless av-default-height-applied   avia-slideshow-1' data-slideshow-options=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;slide&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:false,&quot;loop_autoplay&quot;:&quot;once&quot;,&quot;interval&quot;:5,&quot;loop_manual&quot;:&quot;manual-endless&quot;,&quot;autoplay_stopper&quot;:false,&quot;noNavigation&quot;:false,&quot;bg_slider&quot;:false,&quot;keep_padding&quot;:false,&quot;hoverpause&quot;:false,&quot;show_slide_delay&quot;:0}\"  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 31.620553359684%;'><li  class='avia-slideshow-slide av-av_slideshow_full-4f3ef5c0d0c5e5a45e27d5f99336c2be__0  av-single-slide slide-1 slide-odd'><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"wp-image-406 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-406\"  src='https:\/\/www.alamaya.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/83.jpg' width='759' height='240' title='83' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"   \/><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div id='after_full_slider_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-296'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-158f752685f52c9756545178d0ca5bcd\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-158f752685f52c9756545178d0ca5bcd{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-158f752685f52c9756545178d0ca5bcd .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-158f752685f52c9756545178d0ca5bcd .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-158f752685f52c9756545178d0ca5bcd av-special-heading-h2  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_slideshow_full  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >History<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>The term\u00a0<strong>&#8220;schizophrenia&#8221;<\/strong> comes from the Greek\u00a0&#8220;skhizein&#8221; =\u00a0to split\u00a0and &#8220;phr\u00ean&#8221; = mind; it means\u00a0<strong>literally &#8220;splitted mind&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Schizophrenia exists <strong>in every part of the world<\/strong>, probably <strong>since several thousand years<\/strong>. However, it is only towards the <strong>end of the 19th century<\/strong> that it was recognized scientifically as a\u00a0<strong>well-defined disease<\/strong> &#8211; and that\u00a0its origin and treatment\u00a0began to be investigated.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-46 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alamaya.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bleuler.jpg\" alt=\"bleuler\" width=\"150\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0owes its name to the Swiss\u00a0<strong>Eugen Bleuler<\/strong>, professor\u00a0of psychiatry\u00a0in Zurich\u00a0from 1898\u00a0to 1927. In 1911,\u00a0in <em>Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias<\/em>, he refutes the\u00a0designation &#8220;early dementia&#8221; introduced by Emil Kraepelin (German psychiatrist\u00a0considered as the founder of modern scientific psychiatry), and replaces it by the term &#8220;schizophrenia&#8221; to illustrate the idea of a fragmented mind.<\/p>\n<p>In his book, Eugen Bleuler explains:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I call dementia praecox schizophrenia because, as I hope to demonstrate, the splitting of the different psychic functions is one of its most important characteristics.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The name dementia praecox or schizophrenia designates a group of psychoses\u00a0which develops\u00a0at times\u00a0in a chronic mode,\u00a0at times by surges, which can\u00a0stop or retrocede at any stage, but which probalbly doesn&#8217;t allow a complete\u00a0&#8220;restitutio ad integrum&#8221;. 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