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ˌpsychopaˈthology
Also with hyphen.
[f. psycho- + pathology.]
a. The pathology of the mind; the science of mental disorder or the mental or psychological causation of disorders and abnormalities.
1847tr. Feuchtersleben's Med. Psychol. (Syd. Soc.) 70 Psychopathology has not yet acquired sufficient light respecting these critical processes. 1895Syd. Soc. Lex., Psychopathology, the science treating of the legal aspect of insanity. Also, the pathology of insanity. 1951D. B. Klein Abnormal Psychol. 5 The study of mental disorder bulks large in the field of abnormal psychology, so that a good portion of this field might be regarded as coterminous with that of psychopathology. 1964Gould & Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 555/1 This psycho⁓analytic psychopathology has..been employed to explain..not only mental symptoms but also the physical lesions of so-called psychosomatic diseases; not only disease but also the traits and quirks of normal or deviant personalities. 1968J. Zubin in Zubin & Shagass Neurobiol. Aspects of Psychopathology 289 If we define personality as the systematic aspect of a person's behavior, and psychopathology as those aspects of this systematic behavior attributable to illness, an important question arises regarding the possible connections between premorbid personality and psychopathology. 1969T. Freeman Psychopathology of Psychoses i. 2 Psychopathology has a wider subject-matter than the study of ‘conscious psychic events’... To be comprehensive it must take account of psychoanalysis... It must also be based on certain aspects of neurology and internal medicine.
b. A mentally or behaviourally disordered state.
1947D. Jones in R. Hague Dai Greatcoat (1980) ii. 139 Everything one does is conditioned by one's psycho⁓pathology. 1952Mettler & Curry in F. A. Mettler Psychosurgical Problems i. 16 It does not follow because a patient is discharged that his psychopathology is fundamentally altered. 1970Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXIII. 61 Classifying states of psychopathology into discrete, mutually exclusive categories..does not seem to be possible. 1973Sandler & Davidson Psychopathology i. 8 Tests designed to reveal the developmental history of the patient's psychopathology.
Hence ˌpsychopathoˈlogical a.; ˌpsychopaˈthologist, a student of or expert in psycho-pathology; also ˌpsychopathoˈlogic a., ˌpsychopathoˈlogically adv.
1863D. D. Home's Incidents Life Introd. 15 To the psychopathologist.. this detail may serve to advance an important scientific purpose. 1891Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1889–90 636 One can thus see the links which form the psycho-pathologic chain of human life, at one end of which we may find insanity and at the other criminality. 1892Nation (N.Y.) 15 Sept. 203/3 A volume on saints, in which the whole subject of hagiology will be investigated from a psychopathological point of view. 1919W. S. Maugham Moon & Sixpence i. 7 The mystic sees the ineffable and the psycho-pathologist the unspeakable. 1928Guy's Hosp. Rep. LXXVIII. 458 Psychopathologically, from the content of the hypochondriacal complaints..an anal-erotic basis for some hypochondrias is strongly suggested. 1936Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. LXXXIV. 450 Psychopathologically, we undertake an analysis of the situation. 1971J. J. Shapiro tr. Habermas's Toward Rational Society iii. 42 The use of psychopathological concepts has become necessary for the identification and explanation of a political state of affairs. 1976Observer 11 Jan. 21/4 Interesting little psychopathological tour de force—or, as they say in Soho, kinks and kicks. |