However, schizophrenia itself is regarded as a breakdown process, quite distinct from the continuously distributed trait of schizotypy, and forming a second, graded continuum, ranging from schizotypal personality disorder to full-blown schizophrenic psychosis.
परिभाषा
any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact पर्याय: schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, dementia praecox,