praecox

It means "early-ripening fruit", and can be traced back to the Latin word praecox.

Archive 2006-07-01 tannaz 2006

It means "early-ripening fruit", and can be traced back to the Latin word praecox.

apricocious tannaz 2006

Bleuler believed, however, that the term dementia praecox was too specific and did not always fit the clinical course, which he believed more variable than originally described.

The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

Pussy willow, fragrant wintersweet Chimonanthus praecox and lilac are great old-fashioned shrubs for ambiance and fragrance.

Say it with your own arrangement - or cutting garden - of flowers Joel M. Lerner 2011

Manic-depressive insanity, involution melancholia, dementia praecox—this was indeed a sophisticated language, and it certainly sounded medical.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

The concepts of both dementia praecox (schizophrenia) and manic depression, first proposed by Kraepelin, have undergone repeated transformations over the last century, with allied growth in various neuroses (anxiety disorders), subdivided into many classes.

Anis Shivani: The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It 2009

Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) is the key figure in the classification of psychiatric disorders, making a distinction between dementia praecox (senility of the young, later relabeled schizophrenia) and manic depression.

Anis Shivani: The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It 2009

So they put him in Rockland State Hospital, Building 17, diagnosed with dementia praecox.

Last Words George Carlin 2009

Any state or nation that puts known schizophrenics in prison, where they promptly have complete psychotic breakdowns and many if not most become completely detached from reality and go into total dementia praecox permanently as a result - has no right to call itself a civilized nation.

McCain Team Falsely Charges That Obama Opposes Capital Punishment For Bin Laden 2009

I'm sorry about his broken bones, but get real - there are schizophrenics locked up in our state prisons, where they immediately have complete and irrevocable psychotic breaks with reality and slide into dementia praecox, permanently.

McCain Himself Invokes POW Past To Deflect Criticism Of Houses Gaffe 2009