A detailed case report in 1797 concerning James Tilly Matthews, and accounts by Phillipe Pinel published in 1809, are often regarded as the earliest cases of the illness in the medical and psychiatric literature.
== Zgodovina ==Na začetku 20. stoletja je psihiater Kurt Schneider naštel oblike psihotičnih simptomov, ki so po njegovem mnenju razlikovale shizofrenijo od drugih psihotičnih motenj.