Schizophrenia is a mental disorder in which the person can suffer from auditory hallucinations, delusions of grandeur, paranoia, disorganized thought and speech patterns, and lack of motivation. Early accounts of schizophrenic-like symptoms were recorded with cases like James Tilly Matthews which was reported in 1797 and by French Psychiatrist Phillipe Pinel in 1809. It was first labelled as Dementia Praecox in the late 1800s by Arnold Pick, a psychiatry professor at Charles University in Prague. The term “schizophrenia” was originally coined by Swiss psychiatrist and eugenicist Eugene Bleuler in 1908 with its literal translation meaning ‘splitting of the brain’. Although different in many ways from multiple-identity disorder, the literal
