Who identified Schizophrenia?

Emil Kraepelin

• He was the German psychiatrist who distinguished schizophrenia from other forms of psychosis.
• He made the distinction in his 6th edition of his psychiatry textbook in 1899. He called it dementia praecox.

Paul Eugen Bleuler

• He was the Swiss psychiatrist who coined the term ‘Schizophrenia’ in 1911.
• The term is derived from the Greek words ‘schizo’ and ‘phren’ which translates to “split mind”.
• He believed that the dissociation of thoughts and feelings the distinguishing symptoms of the disorder.