Word: schizoid
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...underwent a change of voice, manner, posture and her utterances made it appear that she was invaded by the spirit of a deceased Arab who called himself Uvani. Dr. Rhine was not much concerned with whether "Uvani" was in fact an Oriental ghost, or the alter ego of a Schizoid personality, or a simple hallucination. He wanted to know what Mrs. Garrett in her normal state and in her trance could do with his cards. Findings...
This Brill. Dr. Abraham Arden Brill's characterization of Abraham Lincoln as a schizoid-manic personality (TIME, June 15) must be painful to teachers who hold Lincoln as a model for their pupils. "But who is this Dr. Brill?* Teachers have never before heard of him. What do other psychiatrists say? . . . Teachers, before accepting his conclusions, would want to see an analysis of the doctor's own mentality." (James William Crabtree, secretary of the Association...
...Abraham Arden Brill of Manhattan, a Freud disciple, was scheduled to read a paper on "Abraham Lincoln as a Humorist." Lincoln, from what Dr. Brill has been able to learn out of Lincoln biographies, was a schizoidmanic. That appellation is not so horrendous as it seems in type. A schizoid is a "split personality." He has subtle conflicts among the psychic components of his personality. A manic is a moody person, one subject to fits of exaltation and depression. When a manic or a schizoid or any type of mental aberration annoys his neighbors, they call him crazy and have...
...Schizoid types: physically pale, sharp-featured; mentally censorious, nonsocial, preferring routine habits, tending to have their personalities split (schizophrenia); especially apt to be tubercular...