单词 | psychosis |
释义 | psychosisn. 1. Medicine and Psychology. Originally: any kind of disordered mental state or mental illness. Later: spec. severe mental illness, characterized by loss of contact with reality (in the form of delusions and hallucinations) and deterioration of intellectual and social functioning, occurring as a primary disorder or secondary to other diseases, drug ingestion, etc.; an instance of this. Cf. neurosis n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness woodnessc1000 woodshipc1000 madshipc1225 woodc1275 woodhead1303 ragec1330 amentiaa1398 madnessa1398 frenzy?a1400 madheada1400 maddingc1400 alienation?a1425 furiosity?a1475 derverye1480 forcenery1480 furiousnessc1500 unwitness1527 unwitting1527 demencya1529 straughtness1530 insaniea1538 brainsickness1541 lunacy1541 amenty1557 distraughtness1576 dementation?1583 straughtedness1583 insanity1590 crazedness1593 bedlam1598 dementia1598 insanation1599 non compos mentis1607 distraction1609 daffinga1614 disinsanitya1625 cerebrosity1647 vecordy1656 fanaticness1662 non-sanity1675 insaneness1730 craziness1755 hydrophobia1760 vecord1788 derangement1800 vesania1800 a screw loose1810 unsoundness1825 dementedness1833 craze1841 psychosis1847 crackiness1861 feyness1873 crack1891 meshugas1898 white ant1908 crackedness1910 pottiness1933 loopiness1939 wackiness1941 screwballism1942 kink1959 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > psychosis psychosis1924 psychoticism1950 1847 H. E. Lloyd & B. G. Babington tr. E. von Feuchtersleben Princ. Med. Psychol. 11 The nosography which aims at exhibiting the phenomena, the natural history, and the so called system of psychoses [Ger. Psychosen]. 1874 H. Maudsley Respons. in Mental Dis. i. 33 No wonder that the criminal psychosis, which is the mental side of the neurosis, is for the most part an intractable malady, punishment being of no avail to produce a permanent reformation. 1879 G. H. Lewes Study Psychol. 26 Pathologists call it a psychosis, as if it were a lesion of the unknown psyche. 1907 A. R. Diefendorf Clin. Psychiatry (ed. 2) 153 The psychoses most apt to be confounded with neurasthenia are dementia paralytica, dementia præcox, and melancholia of involution. 1924 J. Riviere et al. tr. S. Freud Coll. Papers I. iv. 72 The ego rejects the unbearable idea..and behaves as if the idea had never occurred to the person at all. But, as soon as this process has been successfully carried through, the person..will have developed a psychosis, and his state can only be described as one of ‘hallucinatory confusion’. 1946 R. B. Cattell Descr. & Measurement Personality ii. 30 Psychoses are both endogenous and exogenous, organic and psychogenic... Some exogenous psychoses are..organic, in..that the provoking environmental influence—e.g., alcohol or syphilis—is organic. 1988 J. Masson Against Therapy (1990) v. 171 His basic thesis is that the patient has fled into a psychosis to avoid the pain of being unloved. 1995 Sci. Amer. Aug. 57/2 During deep-diving experiments in which the hydrogen pressures exceeded about 25 atmospheres, there were occasional episodes in which divers suffered debilitating effects, such as psychosis or ‘out of body’ experiences. 2. Mental activity; an instance of this. Cf. neurosis n. 2. Now disused. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > relief > [noun] > change psychosis1871 1871 T. H. Huxley in Contemp. Rev. Nov. 462 As it is very necessary to keep up a clear distinction between these two processes, let the one be called neurosis, and the other psychosis. 1882 Nature 9 Feb. 335 Some intimate association between neurosis and psychosis being thus accepted as a fact by the hypothesis of automatism. 1907 Expositor Sept. 213 Feelings, moods, emotional consciousnesses or psychoses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1847 |
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