单词 | schizophrenic |
释义 | schizophrenicadj.n. A. adj. a. Psychology. Characteristic of or having schizophrenia. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > schizophrenia schizophrenic1912 schizo1957 schiz1960 schitzy1968 1912 Bleuler in Amer. Jrnl. Insanity LXIX. 874 When we look more closely we find amongst all normal people many and important instances where thought is divorced both from logic and from reality. I have called these forms of thinking autistic, corresponding to the idea of schizophrenic autismus. 1927 D. K. Henderson & R. D. Gillespie Text-bk. Psychiatry ix. 218 It is now generally recognised that although a schizophrenic type of disturbance is always most serious, there are certain cases which can, and do, readjust themselves. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Sept. 692/4 Professor Kretschmer manages to convey the impression that all philosophers and tragedians are schizophrenic, or at least ‘schizoid’. 1945 Times 28 Sept. 7/5 He was schizophrenic long before the thing became fashionable, half of him being entirely rational, the other half living in a world in which it was taken for granted that pigs have wings. 1973 I. L. Child Humanistic Psychol. ix. 137 Laing and Esterson..argue that schizophrenic behavior appears in these patients as a somewhat sensible response to an extremely difficult situation. 1974 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xxxv. 55/2 Other examples are the ‘schizophrenic smile’, which appears without obvious external cause and is presumed to be a response to an internal hallucinatory stimulus, and the ‘schizophrenic handshake’, the patient's hand when grasped remaining limp. 1981 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 24 Jan. 313/3 While drugs have certainly facilitated the extramural care of schizophrenic patients the minimisation of prolonged inpatient treatment has, to a large extent, been due to social measures and to changes in attitude within the psychiatric services. b. transferred and figurative, frequently with the implication of mutually contradictory or inconsistent elements. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [adjective] > paradoxical paradoxal1602 paradoxic1632 paradoxical1638 inconceivable1655 schizoid1955 schizophrenic1955 1955 Sci. Amer. Oct. 113/1 The behavior of the puzzled Board reflected its schizophrenic task. The members performed as part jury, part judge, and then as part administrative agency, engaged in a part rule-making, part quasi-judicial proceeding. 1960 Times 13 June 14/1 It was a schizophrenic day when nearly every player seemed to live two lives. 1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship viii. 155 You're not living two different lives that don't match... For me it's absolutely impossible. It's schizophrenic. a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1977) III. 71 We are all deeply schizophrenic on this Bill, hate the interference, hate the break with the trade unions, yet we can see that without it there must be a higher level of unemployment than we can tolerate. 1978 M. Shanks What's Wrong with Mod. World? iii. 45 In their reaction to inflationary pressures government have been..schizophrenic. On the one hand they have sought..to fight them. On the other hand they have felt obliged to compensate the victims. 1980 Daily Tel. 24 July 11/5 The work is schizophrenic in its switches of style from geniune opera-drama to operetta and then to the typical vehicle for a soprano anxious and able to sing Ophelia's mad scene. B. n. A person with schizophrenia. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > schizophrenia > person schizophrene1925 schizophrenic1926 schizo1945 schiz1955 1926 W. McDougall Outl. Abnormal Psychol. xxiii. 384 The delusions and hallucinations of the schizophrenic so commonly concern his body. 1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie x. 110 One young schizophrenic had both hands fastened in front with a bandage so he could not bother the other patients. 1956 A. Huxley Heaven & Hell 84 Many schizophrenics pass most of their time..in a shadowy world of phantoms and unrealities. 1958 J. M. Argyle Relig. Behaviour ix. 109 Schizophrenics..are more chaotic and harbour a number of unrelated fantasies and identifications simultaneously. 1979 N. Scheper-Hughes Saints, Scholars & Schizophrenics iii. 69/1 Interviews with Irish schizophrenics support the hypothesis that the later age of onset of the disease in rural Ireland is related to the postponed adulthood..of the Irish bachelor. Derivatives schizoˈphrenically adv. in a manner suggestive or characteristic of schizophrenia. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adverb] > schizophrenia schizophrenically1963 1963 Times 23 Apr. 16/1 Ionesco's hero—perpetually exhausted, always eating, schizophrenically incapable of action. 1975 Gramophone Nov. 790/1 Then there's what one might call a strange psychological world in which almost schizophrenically Sibelius uses brightness and lightness juxtaposed with the darkest and most ferocious gestures. 1979 Times 27 Dec. 11/5 Schizophrenically Janus-like, we offer at least two different faces towards a policeman. 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