According to Strauss, catastrophic schizophrenia took a similar course to catatonic schizophrenia and hebephrenia, with all three ending in the total collapse into psychosis within two to four years.
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In the second half of the century, Karl Kahlbaum and Ewald Hecker developed a descriptive categorizion of syndromes, employing terms such as dysthymia, cyclothymia, catatonia, paranoia and hebephrenia.
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Schizophrenia is sometimes also referred to as hebephrenia, stemming in etymology from the Greek god Hebe who was associated with adolescence and as it was thought the onset of schizophrenia came at adolescence.
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The Latinized term " dementia praecox " was first used by German alienist Heinrich Schule in 1886 and then in 1891 by Arnold Pick in a case report of a psychotic disorder ( hebephrenia ).
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Prognosis ( course and outcome ) began to feature alongside signs and symptoms in the description of syndromes, and he added a class of psychotic disorders designated " psychic degenerative processes ", three of which were borrowed from Kahlbaum and Hecker : " dementia paranoides " ( a degenerative type of Kahlbaum's paranoia, with sudden onset ), " catatonia " ( per Kahlbaum, 1874 ) and " dementia praecox ", ( Hecker's hebephrenia of 1871 ).
