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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.

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