精神分裂病

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Chinese

schizophrenia; psychosis
ailment; illness; disease
ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect
 
trad. (精神分裂病) 精神分裂
simp. #(精神分裂病) 精神分裂

Pronunciation


Noun

精神分裂病

  1. (psychiatry) Alternative name for 精神分裂症 (jīngshén fēnlièzhèng, “schizophrenia”).

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
せい
Grade: 5
しん
Grade: 3
ぶん
Grade: 2
れつ
Grade: S
びょう
Grade: 3
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
精神分裂病 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Compound of 精神 (seishin, mind, intellect; psyche) +‎ 分裂 (bunretsu, split; break apart) +‎ (byō, disease, sickness, illness). Coined in Japan in the Meiji period as a calque of German Schizophrenie.

The Japanese term 精神 (seishin, mind) has overtones of reason or intellect in ordinary use, leading historically to some confusion regarding this diagnosis, as persons with schizophrenia do not necessarily exhibit any breakdown of intellect. The misnomer nature of this word, as well as the stigma associated with this pejorative term, ultimately led the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology to formally relabel the disease in 2002 as 統合失調症 (tōgō shitchō shō, literally comprehensive disharmony/imbalance disorder), a name alluding to the biopsychosocial model of mental illnesses.

Pronunciation

Noun

(せい)(しん)(ぶん)(れつ)(びょう) (seishin bunretsu byō

  1. (dated, potentially offensive) schizophrenia

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References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN