Example Sentences

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These findings show a possible higher incidence of mental-health issues and composite psychopathological vulnerabilities in this group.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2023

Mindfulness can relieve psychopathological symptoms such as anxiety and depression and psychobiological stress as measured through, for instance, salivary cortisol.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2022

Last year, a paper in the journal Urban Forestry & Urban Greening found that Italians who practiced gardening to cope with COVID-19 related anxiety reported "lower psychopathological distress through decreased COVID-19 related distress."

From Salon • Jul. 10, 2022

Nostalgia is derived from the Greek words for “homecoming” and “pain,” and before it referred to a yearning for the past, it was a psychopathological disorder, describing a homesickness so severe it could actually kill.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021

Such occur conspicuously in the psychopathological syndrome so completely described by Janet under the term psychasthenia.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various