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单词 psychosis
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psychosisn.

Brit. /sʌɪˈkəʊsɪs/, U.S. /saɪˈkoʊsəs/
Inflections: Plural psychoses.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: psyche n., -osis suffix.
Etymology: < psyche n. + -osis suffix, in sense 1 after German Psychose (1845 in the passage translated in quot. 1847 at sense 1) and neurosis n. Compare scientific Latin psychosis (1846 or earlier in a medical context in a German source), French psychose (1859). Compare also ancient Greek ψύχωσις fact or action of giving soul or life to, animation, principle of life. With sense 2 compare neurosis n. 2.
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.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness
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craziness1755
hydrophobia1760
vecord1788
derangement1800
vesania1800
a screw loose1810
unsoundness1825
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psychosis1847
crackiness1861
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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.
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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).
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