Hence, a literal interpretation of the word schizophrenia would render a definition of "splitting of the mind". ... Collectively, both psychotic and disorganized symptoms are referred to as positive symptoms not because they are good, but because they represent the production of abnormal behavior. ...

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The personality theorist, according to the editor of one of the leading journals in the field (Funder, 1994), has "an interest in what individual human beings think, feel, and do," including "how the social situation affects and is affected by the individual." Personality theory, wrote Walter Mische...

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