1883 W. A. Hammond Treat. Insanity 556Hebephrenia..is the term applied to the insanity of pubescence.
1948 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXXIX. 89Hebephrenia is featured by silliness, incongruity, mannerisms etc.
1956 C. P. Snow Homecomings 348He lay on his back, his legs relaxed, like a figure on a tomb or one in a not disagreeable state of hebephrenia.
1884 Jrnl. Nerv. & MentalDis. XI. 303Imperative conceptions are relatively frequent among hebephreniacs.
1885 Ibid. XII. 516 (heading)Autopsy findings in a hebephreniac.
1908 Practitioner Jan. 12 The patient may gradually become imbecile and demented—the hebephrenic type.
1915 C. R. Payne tr. Pfister's Psychoanalytic Method 542Dementia praecox (in catatonic, hebephrenic and paranoid forms).
1938 S. Beckett Murphy 168A hebephrenic playing the piano intently.
1973 ‘E. McBain’ Let's hear It v. 59He considered them obsolete and essentially hebephrenic. [ sc. the police]
hebe-
combining form
Etymology: Greek hēbē youth, pubes
: puberty
< hebephrenia >
: downy : hairy : pubescent
< hebeanthous >
< hebephrenia >
: downy : hairy : pubescent
< hebeanthous >
hebe-
Prefix
- relating to youth
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἥβη (hḗbē, “youth”)