schizophrenia

skitsofrenia puhekieltä A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion.
puhekieltä Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist.
2006, Bertus Praeg, Ethiopia and Political Renaissance in Africa (page 213)

(..) one can understand how the cultural disorientation which beset the African Continent has confused Africa's political behaviour, creating a political schizophrenia that made nation-building impossible.