Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of the origin, development, and manifestations of mental or behavioral disorders.
- noun The manifestation of a mental or behavioral disorder.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That branch of medical science which treats of diseases of the mind.
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- noun medicine, pathology The study of the
origin ,development ,diagnosis andtreatment ofmental andbehavioural disorders .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of psychology concerned with abnormal behavior
- noun the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
Etymologies
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Examples
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Romantic bestseller (it provoked E.T.A. Hoffmann, amongst others, towards an interest in psychopathology).
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This psychopathology is made all the more palpable because of the intense moral contradictions: while it has accomplished impressive things, including “Jewish democracy,” a place for some Jews to take refuge or to find pride, survival at all odds, and economic and technological development, Israel is a colonial settler society in origin as much as Zionism is also a variant of Jewish nationalism; it is both non-democratic in its exclusion of non-Jews and democratic for its Jewish majority.
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Abnormal behaviour is called psychopathology and is classified on the basis of its symptoms, the classification is called a diagnosis.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows psychexchange.co.uk@slideshare.net(psychexchange.c 2010
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Abnormal behaviour is called psychopathology and is classified on the basis of its symptoms, the classification is called a diagnosis.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows psychexchange.co.uk@slideshare.net(psychexchange.c 2010
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Thus, in a 419 scam, other factors, such as psychopathology or extreme naïvete, likely explain the gullible behavior.
Why We Keep Falling for Financial Scams Stephen Greenspan 2009
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It is therefore not at all surprising to find so many workers in other fields of medicine who believe that the terms "psychopathology" and "Freudian psychoanalysis" are synonymous, one and the same thing.
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A board-certified psychiatrist in practice for 30 years, Dr. Wolman feels compelled to understand the "psychopathology" of man "under tremendous pressure from both his family/junta, and from the world at large."
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But he harbors secrets, mostly of his own psychopathology, which begin to surface as he gets caught up in local tawdriness.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Killer Inside Me Marshall Fine 2010
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However, empirical evidence and professional norms do not support the idea that homosexuality is a form of mental illness or is inherently linked to psychopathology.
Think Progress » Cuccinelli: Homosexual ‘acts’ are a ‘detriment to our culture.’ 2010
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However, empirical evidence and professional norms do not support the idea that homosexuality is a form of mental illness or is inherently linked to psychopathology.
Think Progress » Cuccinelli: Homosexual ‘acts’ are a ‘detriment to our culture.’ 2010
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