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Psychopathology

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psychiatrynoun(medicine) The branch of medicine that focuses on mental and behavioral health by subjectively diagnosing, treating, or preventing mental disorders (mental illnesses) and behavioural conditions.
psychological medicinea peer-reviewed medical journal in the field of psychiatry and related aspects of psychology and basic sciences.

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psychiatrynoun(medicine) The branch of medicine that focuses on mental and behavioral health by subjectively diagnosing, treating, or preventing mental disorders (mental illnesses) and behavioural conditions.
psychological medicinea peer-reviewed medical journal in the field of psychiatry and related aspects of psychology and basic sciences.
mental disordernoun(psychiatry) A behavioral or mental pattern that may cause suffering or a poor ability to function in life.
psychiatric disorder
psychological disordernoun(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
mental diseasenounAny disease of the mind; a psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention.
psychiatric disease
mental illnessnoun(uncountable, psychiatry) The property of being mentally ill; mental disorders taken as a whole.
neuropsychiatric disorder
neurosisnoun(dated, pathology; current in psychology and philosophy) A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear which differ from normal measures by their intensity, which disorder results from a failure to compromise or properly adjust during the developmental stages of life, between normal human instinctual impulses and the demands of human society.
psychosisnoun(psychology) A severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.
abnormal psychologynounThe academic study of persons whose psychological characteristics deviate from the norm, such as neuroses, psychoses, and other disorders.
mental pathology
behavioral disorder
emotional disordernounany mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant
psychotic disordernoun(psychology, psychiatry) A severe mental disorder that causes abnormal thinking and perceptions.
psychopathistnoun(medicine, dated) One who studies mental illness.
psychonosologynoun(dated) The study of mental disorders.
psychopathographynoun(medicine) A biography with respect to the subject's mental health.
clinicopathologynoun(medicine) The study of the signs and symptoms of a disease and also of its pathology, especially with regard to their correlations.

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