psychoticadj.n.

1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Psychotic, psychagogic.

1896 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Psychotic, belonging to Psychosis. Also, used as synonymous with Psychagogic or Analeptic.

1920 C. S. Read Milit. Psychiatry in Peace & War ii. 21 These figures..include pure epilepsy without any psychotic complications.

1949 Endeavour VIII. 37/1 The use of electric shock therapy for the treatment of certain types of psychotic patients is sometimes complicated by injuries suffered during the electrically produced convulsions.

1957 Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. 16 8 Among psychologists, ‘psychotic break’ refers to the breaking loose of feeling from its previously adequate controls.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 19 Aug. 394/2 Schizophrenia: A group of psychotic disorders characterized by fundamental disturbances in reality relationships and concept formations, with affective, behavioural, and intellectual disturbances in varying degrees and mixtures.

1982 S. Townsend Secret Diary Adrian Mole 173 She has got eyes like a psychotic killer.

2004 N. Flynn Another Bullshit Night in Suck City i. 40 Sometimes a drunk will go over to the other side, turn psychotic.

1910 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 37 633 Thus arise the well-known ‘explanation-delusions’ of the psychotic.

1921 E. J. Kempf Psychopathol. (new ed.) xiv. 718 Many ask the question..,‘Why do all neurotics and psychotics have sexual difficulties?’

1958 J. M. Argyle Relig. Behaviour ix. 109 Many psychotics believe themselves to be religious leaders, prophets or mystics.

1975 B. Meggs Matter of Paradise vii. i. 189 You're asking..whether..we might hope to identify a deteriorated psychotic before he enters government.

1996 New Scientist 17 Aug. 76/1 This is the basis of the ‘hysterical strength’ effect that notoriously allows mothers to lift cars if their child is trapped underneath, or allows psychotics the strength to overcome several nursing attendants.

1925 J. T. Maccurdy Psychol. of Emotion 583 A psychotically anxious or distressed patient will consider that circumstances justified his emotional state.

1976 B. Palmer Body Weather 25 When the moon is in its full phase, the recorded incidence of psychotically motivated crimes (arson, compulsive theft, symbolic and successful acts of self-destruction, atrocious assault and battery) tends to peak.

2002 E. McLaughlin & N. Kraus Nanny Diaries Prol. 10 Despite the fact that we all know the child's opinion is irrelevant I nevertheless become psychotically animated.