| 单词 |
paraphrenia |
| 释义 |
paraphrenia|pærəˈfriːnɪə|
[ad. F. paraphrénie f. para-1 + Gr. ϕρήν mind + -ia1.]
A form of mental disorder; a term sometimes used to refer to mental disorders of the paranoid and schizophrenic varieties. Hence paraˈphrenic a.
[1846Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. (ed. 6) 552/1 Paraphrénie, insanity.] 1890in Billings Med. Dict. II. 290. 1917 C. R. Payne tr. Pfister's Psychoanal. Method 522 Dementia praecox (schizophrenia according to Bleuler, paraphrenia according to Freud). 1919R. M. Barclay tr. Kraepelin's Dementia Praecox & Paraphrenia 2 It seems to me that the term ‘paraphrenia’, which is now no longer in common use, is in the meantime suitable as the name of the morbid forms thus delimited. 1934Webster, Paraphrenic. 1952Purves-Stewart & Worster-Drought Diagnosis of Nervous Dis. (ed. 10) xxii. 737 The term paraphrenia is applied to those cases of paranoidal schizophrenia who retain their personality... Paraphrenic symptoms usually develop later in life than those of the ordinary paranoidal type, often as late as the menopause. 1958Daily Tel. 30 June 10/4 The effect was found to be beneficial even with some of the seriously disturbed paraphrenic patients. 1962Henderson & Gillespie Text-bk. Psychiatry (ed. 9) xii. 291 We would..suggest that the term parphrenia should be discarded, as it does not serve any useful purpose. 1973T. & R. Millon Abnormal Behav. (1974) xvii. 381 The closest approximation to what we have termed paraphrenia may be found in the DSM-II descriptive text of ‘schizophrenia, paranoid type’. |
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