Schizophrenia means "split mind" in Greek. To what "split" does this term refer?

a. the split in personality, characterized by the existence of two or more separate personalities within the same person
b. the patients' split with between their emotions and their thoughts
c. the changes that take place as the condition progresses, or a split from the previous person to the person with schizophrenia
d. a disconnect in the corpus callosum, which does not allow information to be transferred from one hemisphere to the other

b

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