paraschizophrenic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From para- + schizophrenic.
Adjective
[edit]paraschizophrenic (not comparable)
- Related to paraschizophrenia
- 1955, Court-martial Reports: Holdings and Decisions of the Judge Advocates General, Boards of Review and United States Court of Military Appeals, Volume 19[1], page 178:
- he did consider that, at the time of the killing, Mrs. Kovert suffered from a paraschizophrenic condition, and was a totally irresponsible psychotic whom neither policemen, nor the entire United States Army, would have deterred from the homicide. He termed "ridiculous" the findings of a sanity board consisting of
- 1992, Diagnosis and Treatment of the Personality Disorders, page 142[2]:
- The paraschizophrenic borderline, or "borderline schizophrenic," is somewhat, or almost but not quite, schizophrenic. Unlike disorganizing schizophrenics, who are confused .. Some paraschizophrenic borderlines are in fact physically different. They may be tall, angular, bony. They may have, like the schizophrenic, a mirror sign - but the implication is not quite the same.