精神分裂病

Chinese
schizophrenia; psychosis
 
ailment; illness; disease
ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect
trad. (精神分裂病) 精神分裂 病
simp. #(精神分裂病) 精神分裂 病

Pronunciation

Noun

精神分裂病

  1. (psychiatry) Alternative name for 精神分裂症 (jīngshén fēnlièzhèng, “schizophrenia”).

Japanese
Kanji in this term
精 神 分 裂 病
せい
Grade: 5		 しん
Grade: 3		 ぶん
Grade: 2		 れつ
Grade: S		 びょう
Grade: 3
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
精神分裂病 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Compound of 精神 (seishin, “mind, intellect; psyche”) +‎ 分裂 (bunretsu, “split; break apart”) +‎ 病 (byō, “disease, sickness, illness”). Coined in Japan in the Meiji period as a calque of German Schizophrenie.

The Japanese term 精神 (seishin, “mind”) has overtones of reason or intellect in ordinary use, leading historically to some confusion regarding this diagnosis, as persons with schizophrenia do not necessarily exhibit any breakdown of intellect. The misnomer nature of this word, as well as the stigma associated with this pejorative term, ultimately led the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology to formally relabel the disease in 2002 as 統合失調症 (tōgō shitchō shō, literally “comprehensive disharmony/imbalance disorder”), a name alluding to the biopsychosocial model of mental illnesses.

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) せーしんぶんれつびょー [sèéshíń búńrétsú byóó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [se̞ːɕĩm bɯ̟̃ᵝnɾe̞t͡sɨᵝ bʲo̞ː]

Noun

精(せい)神(しん)分(ぶん)裂(れつ)病(びょう) • (seishin bunretsu byō) 

  1. (dated, potentially offensive) schizophrenia

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • 精神(せいしん)分裂(ぶんれつ)病(びょう)患者(かんじゃ) (seishin bunretsu byō kanja): (dated, deprecated, potentially offensive) a schizophrene, a person suffering from schizophrenia

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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