In Taiwan, Taiwanese Society of Psychiatry decided to rename the term from ‘Jing Shen Fen Lie Zheng’ (‘mind-split disease’) to ‘Si Jue Shi Tiao Zheng’ (‘dysfunction of thought and perception’).
Source: The debate about renaming schizophrenia: a new name would not resolve the stigma, W. Gaebel and A. Kerst.
In Taiwan, Taiwanese Society of Psychiatry decided to rename the term from ‘Jing Shen Fen Lie Zheng’ (‘mind-split disease’) to ‘Si Jue Shi Tiao Zheng’ (‘dysfunction of thought and perception’).
Source: Renaming schizophrenia, Toshimasa Maruta, Chihiro Matsumoto.
