prison psychosis

American  

noun

Psychiatry.

1. a state of mental confusion, transitory or permanent, brought on by incarceration or by the anticipation of imprisonment.

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Example Sentences

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

This is a fair example of what has been termed an acute prison psychosis, and occurs with considerable frequency among prisoners awaiting trial.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard

Reich supposes that this acute prison psychosis may be included in that large group of abnormal psychic processes, developing from affect and affect-like situations.

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