Original shizo posting
SCHIZO- Meaning: "division; split, cleavage," from Latinized form of Greek skhizo-, combining form of skhizein "to split,… See definitions of schizo-.
1912, from Modern Latin, literally "a splitting of the mind," from German Schizophrenie, coined in 1910 by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939), from Greek skhizein "to split" (from PIE root *skei- "to cut, split") + phrēn (genitive phrenos) "heart, mind" (hence phrenes "wits, sanity"); see phreno