prison psychosis
Americannoun
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In fact, the trauma he suffered was so profound that he has been diagnosed with a severe case of Ganser syndrome, also known as prison psychosis.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2013
In contemporary terms, Moriarty seems even closer to a prison psychosis that is a variety of the Ganser Syndrome.*
From Time Magazine Archive
It is likewise true of the psychoses of the accidental criminal, but it is entirely different with the criminal who suffers from a degenerative prison psychosis.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard
The clinical pictures presented by the acute prison psychosis are especially apt to awaken suspicions of malingering in the minds of the untrained.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard
A psychosis which develops in imprisonment and progresses irrespective of the change of milieu is not a prison psychosis in the sense that this term is here used.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard
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