Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to mental pathology, that is, to the graver forms of mental derangement.
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- adjective suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder
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Examples
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But narcissism has gone on to become an epithet rather than a valid explanation of psychopathologic behavior.
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You just ignored the mountain of evidence thrown at you because of what is clearly a psychopathologic aversion to admitting defeat.
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In fact, a corporation will kill itself to serve its bottom line, psychopathologic behavior for sure.
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If he has already described other psychopathologic experiences, questions about delusions can be related to these experiences.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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They are often frightened by their psychopathologic experiences, and their anxiety can further exacerbate cognitive deficits.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Specifically, the examiner must be skillful in (1) the techniques and style of the superficially conversational, but semistructured, mental status examination, and (2) the principles of phenomenology—objective observation, precise terminology, and the separation of psychopathologic form from content To be successful in these efforts, the clinician must have a data base: What are the possibilities (i.e., the nosology)?
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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The number and combination of psychopathologic features needed to satisfy different sets of criteria is arbitrary.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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More limited definitions circumscribe neuropsychiatry to the study and treatment of patients with neurologic disease e.g., dementia, epilepsy, stroke, the symptoms of which often include striking psychopathologic phenomena.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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These thoughts, however, also can be conceptualized as either the content of a profound unremitting sadness, which is the essential psychopathologic form of major depressive illness, or the content of an intense euphoric mood, a cardinal feature of mania.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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It is not surprising, then, that many psychopathologic phenomena were originally described in the neurologic literature and that the traditional study of psychopathology derives from nineteenth- and pre-nineteenth-century neurologists and neurologically trained psychiatrists, or alienists for example, Freud was trained as a neuropathologist.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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