title: [What do you associate with the word schizophrenia? A study of the social representation of schizophrenia].
abstract: This study addresses the social representation of schizophrenia. The analysis is based on a representative survey among the population of the former East German provinces now reunified with formal West Germany as the new "Länder" of the Federal Republic, as well as on a survey among medical students at the Universities of Vienna and Leipzig. For those questioned, the most striking feature of schizophrenia was that of a "split" personality. In this context they assumed the parallel existence of two (or more) personalities in the sense of a multiple personality disorder. This metaphor is interpreted as the result of a concretisation process which is substantially supported by the representation of people with mental illness in literature and the media.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie Wien, Klinische Abteilung für Sozialpsychiatrie und Evaluationsforschung, Wien.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Holzinger
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Angermeyer
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matschinger
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001317:Austria; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D009105:Dissociative Identity Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011639:Public Opinion; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012931:Social Environment; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D014936:Word Association Tests
vernacular_title: Was fällt Ihnen zum Wort Schizophrenie ein? Eine Untersuchung zur sozialen Repräsentation der Schizophrenie.