hebephrenia; disorganized schizophrenia
Medical term for a subtype of schizophrenia characterized by disorganized behavior and speech. Rare in everyday conversation; used in psychiatric contexts.
Hebephrenia is classified as a subtype of schizophrenia.
A Japanese rendering of German Hebephrenie. 破瓜 is a literary term for adolescence—especially the age of sixteen, based on analyzing 瓜 as two 八 characters—and 病 means “disease.”