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catathymia Psychiatry.|kætəˈθaɪmɪə|
[mod.L., ad. G. katathymie (H. W. Maier 1912, in Zeitschr. f. Neurol. u. Psychiat. XIII. 555), f. Gr. κατά according to + θυµός spirit, temper.]
A condition in which the mind falls under the control of the emotions. Hence cataˈthymic a., cataˈthymically adv.
1934E. B. Strauss tr. Kretschmer's Text-bk. Med. Psychol. ii. vi. 71 By catathymia..we mean the transformation of the psychic content by affective influences. The primitive world-picture is much more catathymic than our own... This is sufficient to bring about the catathymically determined conviction. Ibid. vii. 101 In such cases of schizophrenia the type of thought is again almost entirely catathymic, even to the extent of the loss of all contact with the realities. 1949Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XL. 13 In catathymia we are dealing with changes to which the psychic content is subjected, and transformed, by affective influences. |