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Definition of Schizophrenic psychosis
1. Noun. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Generic synonyms: Psychosis
Specialized synonyms: Borderline Schizophrenia, Latent Schizophrenia, Catatonia, Catatonic Schizophrenia, Catatonic Type Schizophrenia, Disorganized Schizophrenia, Disorganized Type Schizophrenia, Hebephrenia, Hebephrenic Schizophrenia, Paranoic Type Schizophrenia, Paranoid Schizophrenia, Paraphrenia, Paraphrenic Schizophrenia, Acute Schizophrenic Episode, Reactive Schizophrenia
Derivative terms: Schizophrenic, Schizophrenic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Schizophrenic Psychosis
Literary usage of Schizophrenic psychosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prevention of Mental Disorders, Alcohol and Other Drug Use in Children and edited by David Shaffer (1996)
"... neurodevelopmental abnormalities, and attention deficits is most likely to
represent a precursor of schizophrenic psychosis; but the criteria are not ..."
2. Schizophrenia, 1993: A Special Report edited by David Shore, Samuel J. Keith (1996)
"schizophrenic psychosis may occur when the filter opens and arousal increases.
Meltzer () proposed that a functional change in the DA system is either a ..."
3. Mental diseases ; a public health problem by James Vance May (1922)
"likewise a psychopathic personality with a schizophrenic psychosis should go in
the dementia praecox group. "Psychopathic personalities without an episodic ..."
4. Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane by American Psychiatric Association (1918)
"... and likewise a psychopathic inferior with a schizophrenic psychosis should go
in the dementia praecox group. Psychopathic inferiors without an episodic ..."
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