#schizophrenia__schizophrenic_disorder__schizophrenicdisorder__schizophrenic_psychosis__dementia_praecox  any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
  supertype:  #psychosis__psychosi  any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
  subtype:  #borderline_schizophrenia__latent_schizophrenia  schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophrenia
  subtype:  #catatonic_schizophrenia__catatonicschizophrenia__catatonic_type_schizophrenia__catatonia  a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement
  subtype:  #hebephrenia__hebephrenic_schizophrenia__hebephrenicschizophrenia__disorganized_schizophrenia__disorganized_type_schizophrenia  a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior; usually becomes evident during puberty; the most common diagnostic category in mental institutions
  subtype:  #paranoid_schizophrenia__paranoic_type_schizophrenia__paraphrenic_schizophrenia__paraphrenicschizophrenia__paraphrenia  a form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner
  subtype:  #acute_schizophrenic_episode__acuteschizophrenicepisode__reactive_schizophrenia  schizophrenia of abrupt onset and relatively short duration (a few weeks or months)

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