This is a real-world medical entrance exam question, please give the true answer based on the question and selection. Topic name: Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, Subject name: Psychiatry
Schizophrenia word means 
Select and explain. 
A. Split mind, B. Split mood, C. Split thoughts, D. Split associations
A: Split mind
Answer: A: Split mind 
Explanation: Eugen Bleuler (1911), while renaming dementia praecox as schizophrenia (meaning mental splitting), recognised that this disorder did not always have a poor prognosis as described by Kraepelin. He also recognised that schizophrenia consisted of a group of disorders rather than being a distinct entity. Ref: A Sho Textbook of Psychiatry, Niraj Ahuja, 7th Edition, pg. no. 54