Eugen Bleuler, believing that the name “dementia praecox”
was misleading, coined the term “schizophrenia” for the illness.
In contrast to Kraepelin, who believed a single “morbid process”
would eventually be found for the disorder [2], Bleuler believed
that schizophrenia was actually a group of several diseases with
a similar presentation [3]. He defined schizophrenia by “simple,”
fundamental pathologies. These were: abnormalities in making
associations, abnormal affective expression and regulation,