Schizophrenic insight

Schizophrenic insight (lacking insight, poor insight) is that some or many people with schizophrenia don't think or know that they have it. The idea uses the word insight.

For doctors, schizophrenia is about their jobs where they earn money from people who are patients and things like science and research. People who doctors say have schizophrenia sometimes think they don't. Doctors describe these people as lacking insight. To lack something is to not have something.

The words doctor use has meanings like: "The fact of penetrating with the eyes of the understanding", "deep", "the power or act of seeing into a situation". The whole idea is quite complicated.

In 1927 Dr. E. Minkowski described the idea of psychiatrists penetrating into the mind of patients for diagnosis. Dr. C. Jung had similar ideas sometime after 1909, which Dr. E. Bleuler described as "depth psychology".

"Mental health literacy" (literacy being literature) could be very similar or the same as insight.

The word insight means literally to see inside, which is in & sight, which is seeing. This is obviously not possible because the human eye is the organ of seeing. Situations where actually insight is really possible (which means the eye of the mind), by the definition of seeing inside, is mental visualization and dreams.

Both Dr Freud and Dr Jung wrote about and researched dreams. They both thought thinking about dreams and the meaning of dreams was important.