Definition of psychological disorder Psychological disorder
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What does psychological disorder mean?
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| psychological disorder - (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness | ||
| mental disorder, mental disturbance, disturbance, folie | ||
| disorder, upset a disturbance of the peace or of public order | ||
| psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders | ||
| asperger's syndrome a psychiatric disorder usually noted during early school years; characterized by impaired social relations and by repetitive patterns of behavior | ||
| anxiety disorder a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom | ||
| psychosomatic disorder a mental disorder that causes somatic symptoms | ||
| aberration an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image | ||
| conversion disorder, conversion hysteria, conversion reaction a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause) | ||
| delirium a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations | ||
| delusional disorder any mental disorder in which delusions play a significant role | ||
| encopresis involuntary defecation not attributable to physical defects or illness | ||
| folie a deux the simultaneous occurrence of symptoms of a mental disorder (as delusions) in two persons who are closely related (as siblings or man and wife) | ||
| personality disorder inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior | ||
| affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant | ||
| schizothymia resembling schizophrenia but remaining within the bounds of normality | ||
| neurosis, neuroticism, psychoneurosis a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction | ||
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