Do you mean who was the first person to have it, or who coined the term and established the diagnosis? The disorder existed before people knew what it was.
I think since ancient times they've been aware of psychotic illnesses so probably the ancient Greeks were one of the first to write about it but the term itself is comparatively modern.
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Do you mean who was the first person to have it, or who coined the term and established the diagnosis? The disorder existed before people knew what it was.
As a disorder, it's probably been around as long as man has. I believe Freud was the first to coin the term for the condition however.
I think since ancient times they've been aware of psychotic illnesses so probably the ancient Greeks were one of the first to write about it but the term itself is comparatively modern.
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Schizophrenia is serious, disabling brain disease. No one invented it.
Nineteenth-century psychoanalysts and the white-coated priesthood of scientistic medicine.
It was this voice that travels around with me inside my head.