Schizophrenia has been found to be the most common of the various psychoses. The disorder was named by a Swiss psychiatrist, Eugene Bleuller. The word "schizophrenia" is used to described Bleuller's view that a splitting of psychic functions is a prominent feature of the disorder. A schizophrenic's ideas and feelings are isolated from one another: one may speak randomly, or express frightening or sad ideas in a happy manner. Schizophrenics do not have a "split …showed first 75 words of 1339 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1339 total…sake of all schizophrenics, I do hope so. Anything to get us one step closer to a cure or preventative for schizophrenia is helpful. When not only one, but three or four researchers have similar results to their research things look hopeful. Bibliography: 1. Bower, B. "Schizophrenia drugs: A case for tapering". Science Times March 25, 1995: 56-58. 2. Marshall, Eliot. "A Glimpse of an Elusive Quarry". Science May 12, 1995: 793. 3. "Schizophrenia". The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc., 1993.