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Schizophrenia Essay Preview: Schizophrenia Report this essay The word “schizophrenia” is not even 100 years old, however, the disease has plagues people for years. The disease itself was first identified as a discrete mental illness by German physician Dr. Emile Kraepelin in 1887.1 Dr. Kraepelin developed the term “dementia praecox” for people who had symptoms.