单词 | prepsychotic |
释义 | prepsychoticadj.n. Medicine. A. adj. Existing or occurring prior to the onset of psychosis (esp. a first psychotic episode); exhibiting or designating symptoms suggestive but not yet diagnostic of psychosis; predisposed to psychosis, potentially psychotic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > psychosis psychotic1890 prepsychotic1922 1922 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 79 42 (heading) Recognition of pre-psychotic children by group mental tests. 1925 W. J. H. Sprott tr. E. Kretschmer Physique & Character (ed. 2) i. vi. 89 All these abnormal variations of impulse can often be traced in the prepsychotic [Ger. präpsychotischen] personality, sometimes as far back as the years of childhood. 1927 D. K. Henderson & R. D. Gillespie Text-bk. Psychiatry ix. 218 Are there certain pre-psychotic traits which indicate a severer grade of disturbance in the event of a psychosis developing? 1959 H. Nielsen Fifth Caller iii. 48 There was a tragic case—a man, prepsychotic, who needed expert attention. 1977 Time 4 Apr. 41/2 Tom Verlaine..delivers raw, jabbing vocals in a declamatory, prepsychotic style. 2005 Boston Globe (Nexis) 1 Mar. c1 Schizophrenia researchers have identified a number of ‘prepsychotic’ symptoms in teenagers thought to be the early signs of the disease. B. n. A prepsychotic person. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > psychosis > person psychotic1910 prepsychotic1925 1925 W. J. H. Sprott tr. E. Kretschmer Physique & Char. ii. x. 167 The more..we come into the region of educated and gifted prepsychotics, the more clearly differentiated become the specific hyperæsthetic qualities. 1954 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 293 88/1 The people creating and enmeshed in this environment include..gangsters, professional racketeers, psychotics, prepsychotics, neurotics, and psychopaths. 1977 Lancet 27 Aug. 449/1 There are no doubt prepsychotics who abuse alcohol. 1985 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 478 66/1 Pre-psychotics have problems managing their own drives and fears. Derivatives ˌprepsyˈchotically adv. in a prepsychotic stage; before the development of psychosis. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adverb] > psychosis psychotically1925 prepsychotically1941 psychotropically1962 psychotomimetically1963 1941 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 16 Aug. 522/1 A severe hypotension, which existed prepsychotically as well as during the course of the psychosis, has been improved. 1997 S.-L. Leinonen tr. Y. O. Alanen Schizophrenia iii. 89 The patients, even prepsychotically, were regularly more markedly dependent on their parents than were their healthier siblings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1922 |
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