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Schizophrenia vs Dissociation - What's the difference?

schizophrenia | dissociation |

As nouns the difference between schizophrenia and dissociation

is that schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion while dissociation is the act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.

schizophrenia

English

(wikipedia schizophrenia)

Noun

  • (pathology) A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion.
  • (informal) Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist.

    • Derived terms

    * borderline schizophrenia * catatonic schizophrenia (catatonia) * disorganized schizophrenia * hebephrenic schizophrenia (hebephrenia) * latent schizophrenia * paranoid schizophrenia * paraphrenic schizophrenia * reactive schizophrenia * schizophrenic

    Synonyms

    * dementia praecox * schizophrenic disorder * schizophrenic psychosis

    dissociation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of dissociating]] or [[disunite, disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.
  • (chemistry) The process by which a compound body breaks up into simpler constituents; said particularly of the action of heat on gaseous or volatile substances.
    • the dissociation of the sulphur molecules
    the dissociation of ammonium chloride into hydrochloric acid and ammonia
    (transform into real sentences)
  • (psychology) A defence mechanism where certain thoughts or mental processes are compartmentalised in order to avoid emotional stress to the conscious mind.
    • "Project MONARCH could be best described as a form of structured dissociation and occultic integration, carried out in order to compartmentalize the mind into multiple personalities within a systematic framework." —Ron Patton

    Related terms

    * dissociate * dissociative