alaska', interesting points. I readily admit after hearing various M.D. and Ph..D and people with both desecrate the terminology, the word, linguistically, "schizophrenia" is a booby trap in the language. I'm not linguist, but obviously even well-educated folks associate the word with schism, which means division, which sounds like at least dual personality. I somewhat loath a lot of scientific and medical latinate language for just this reason. People either have no idea what it means or they get it wrong, even the professionals. But since the professionals have chosen this misleading name for a disease, they ought to keep it straight. Talk about a stigmatized group. When I encounter folks with schizophrenia, for example at my old job on the phone, I try to make time to talk to them. There's a kind of poetry there that can be interesting and stimulating. One man wanted to talk to a "sublime physicist." Wow, that idea charmed me. I almost gave him the number of a friend at work who actually had a Ph.D. in physics, but I didn't want to confuse the caller more. My friend was a chess master, a Go enthusiast (the board game) and somewhat sublime, I think.
