dementia_praecox
1. [ noun ] (psychology,psychiatry) any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
Synonyms: schizophrenic_disorder schizophrenic_psychosis schizophrenia
Related terms: psychosis hebephrenia catatonic_schizophrenia paranoid_schizophrenia acute_schizophrenic_episode borderline_schizophrenia