"Dementia praecox" nghĩa là gì?


"Dementia praecox" có dementia là chứng mất trí -> từ này nghĩa là chứng tâm thần phân liệt.

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That John Mollick, youthful slayer of Mrs. Robert Stoltz, wife of a Porter County farmer, east of Valparaiso, is suffering from dementia praecox, a type of insanity, is the opinion of Coroner Seipel, who Saturday conducted an inquest (điều tra), returning the finding that Mrs. Stoltz came to her death from shotgun wounds.

Mental health experts of that time referred to schizophrenia (tâm thần phân liệt) by the term dementia praecox. Jung’s work focused on the similarities between dementia praecox, dreams, and the now outdated concept of “hysteria.”

Ironically, Bleuler had intended (có ý) to clarify matters by replacing the older, even more misleading term of dementia præcox [‘dementia of early life’]. This older term had been championed by the eminent German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (d. 1926), who believed, wrongly, that the illness only struck young people, and inevitably led to mental deterioration.

Kraepelin first carved out schizophrenia from other forms of psychosis in 1887, but that is not to say that schizophrenia— or dementia præcox, as he called it—had not existed long before his day. 

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