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involutional, a. Psychol.|ɪnvəˈl(j)uːʃənəl|
[f. involution + -al.]
Of or pertaining to the bodily change of involution (sense 4), or to mental disturbances associated with this change.
1910Rev. Neurol. & Psychiatry VIII. 8, I refer to the work of Dreyfus, who, after reviewing Kraepelin's own cases of involutional melancholia, concludes that the involutional depression is a mixed form of manic-depressive insanity. 1934P. Bottome Private Worlds 111 It's not an ordinary melancholic case. She hasn't had any attacks before; and it is not involutional; she is only thirty. 1945E. Davidoff in O. J. Kaplan Mental Disorders Later Life viii. 189 There may be a qualitative as well as a quantitative difference between the nonpsychotic involutional syndrome and the involutional psychosis. 1950J. Zinkin tr. Bleuler's Dementia Praecox ii. 242 Kraepelin was the first to draw attention to the high incidence of cases who develop an apparently common melancholia during the involutional period. 1965Foulds & Caine Personality & Personal Illness ii. iv. 67 We do not have much difficulty in understanding what is meant by an involutional melancholia with obsessional features. 1968Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. CII. 29/1 Pronounced involutional atrophy occurred in the..myometrium at 7 weeks post partum. 1969Biochem. Jrnl. CXII. 641/1 Oestradiol might not have a differential effect on two separate involutionary processes, but might just decrease the water content of the treated uteri. |