psychopathology
- the science or study of mental disorders.
- the conditions and processes of a mental disorder.
- a pathological deviation from normal or efficient behavior; psychosis.
Origin of psychopathology
Examples from the Web for psychopathology
Contemporary Examples of psychopathology
It is hard to make much sense of him, too, without the language of psychopathology.
Alleged Santa Barbara Killer Elliot Rodger and the Twisted Cult of Modern MasculinityJames Poulos
May 26, 2014
In any case, increased understanding of psychopathology in understanding filicide can only help, he said.
But Dr. Prause is emphatic that her research finds no evidence of psychopathology in asexuals.
Historical Examples of psychopathology
To many, they represent a psychopathology or a sociopathology.
After the RainSam Vaknin
That might have been foreseen by any one at all familiar with the psychopathology of reform.
NonsenseorshipG. G. Putnam and Others
For more than a decade, in handling nervous cases, I have made use of the findings of recognized authorities on psychopathology.
Outwitting Our NervesJosephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury
In my Psychopathology of Everyday Life (first published in 1901), you will find only too many instances for the study of errors.
A General Introduction to PsychoanalysisSigmund Freud
If human society was better acquainted with psychopathology a great deal of conjugal misunderstanding and misery would be avoided.
The Sexual QuestionAugust Forel
psychopathology
- the scientific study of mental disorders
Word Origin and History for psychopathology
psychopathology
(sī′kō-pə-thŏl′ə-jē)- The study of the origin, development, and manifestations of mental or behavioral disorders.
- The manifestation of a mental or behavioral disorder.