psychopathology
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the science or study of mental disorders.
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the conditions and processes of a mental disorder.
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a pathological deviation from normal or efficient behavior; psychosis.
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His malignity and psychopathology seem to attract followers when these same characteristics should repulse people.
From Salon • Mar. 4, 2024
Author Amitav Ghosh has correctly given this ailment of imaginative deficiency a name, redolent of psychopathology: Our inability to apprehend the reality of ecological catastrophe is nothing less than “derangement.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2022
Maybe, even, they are stand-ins, part of the psychopathology of everyday life.
From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2022
Violence prevention policies in the United States have historically emphasized individualistic and often medicalized frameworks that portray violence as primarily an issue of personal morality, psychopathology, and self-control.
From Slate • Mar. 2, 2022
It is our thesis that the psychopathology of such murderers forms at least one specific syndrome which we shall describe.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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