Crossword clues for psychopathology
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context medicine pathology English) The study of the origin, development, diagnosis and treatment of mental and behavioural disorders.
WordNet
n. the branch of psychology concerned with abnormal behavior [syn: abnormal psychology]
the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders [syn: psychiatry, psychological medicine]
Wikipedia
Psychopathology is the scientific study of mental disorders, including efforts to understand their genetic, biological, psychological, and social causes; effective classification schemes ( nosology); course across all stages of development; manifestations; and treatment. The term may also refer to the manifestation of behaviors that indicate the presence of a mental disorder.
The word psychopathology has a Greek origin: 'psyche' means "soul", 'pathos' is defined as "suffering", and 'logos' is "the study of". Wholly, psychopathology is defined as the origin of mental disorders, how they develop, and the symptoms they might produce in a person.
Patients with mental disorders are normally treated by psychiatrists, or psychologists, who both specialize in mental health and diagnose and treat patients through medication or psychotherapy. These professionals systematically diagnose individuals with mental disorders using specific diagnostic criteria and symptomatology found within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Psychopathology is a peer-reviewed medical journal that research on and classification of mental illness in clinical psychiatry, the field of psychopathology. It was established in 1897 as Psychiatria Clinica and obtained its current name in 1984. It bills itself as the "International journal of experimental psychopathology, phenomenology and psychiatric diagnosis" and aims to "elucidate the complex interrelationships of biology, subjective experience, behavior and therapies".
Usage examples of "psychopathology".
We must bear in mind, however sadly, that psychopathology is no longer the exclusive preserve of the degenerate and perverse.
What will follow is the psychopathology of sex, relationships so lunar and abstract that people will become mere extensions of the geometries of situations.
Tests on a wide range of subjects indicate that the automobile, and in particular the automobile crash, provides a focus for the conceptualizing of a wide range of impulses involving the elements of psychopathology, sexuality and self-sacrifice.
Based upon the high degree of psychopathology exhibited at the scene and his ability to avoid detection despite the high-risk nature of the crimes, the age of the subject is around twentyeight to thirty-six.
If that were the case, we would have seen profound evidence of psychopathology from Patsy by now, and we have not.
That, along with some other types of psychopathology is dealt with in greater detail in Chapter Four.
If a psychodynamic clinician and a cognitive clinician discuss their teen male clients who love online fantasy games, they may discover some significant overlap in their concepts of psychopathology and psychotherapy.
Certainly, if the subject answered truthfully, it would detect insanity or psychopathology in a second.
He does not rely heavily on research nor does he deal with psychopathology, but his messages about the joys and foibles of love are masterpieces.
Pavlov concluded that all psychopathology was learned via classical conditioning.
Though obviously various psychopathologies will include one or more of such traitscarried to extremesthe focus here is on the creation of everyday, imperfect characters.
Maybe she should be at the library, reading everything there is about twins, care and feeding, she guesses, or is it psychopathology?
He has had over 250 articles published in outlets ranging from The Village Voice, Omni and Cosmopolitan to The Independent Scholar, Across-Species Comparisons and Psychopathology, and Research in Biopolitics.
Self-disclosure is not primarily disclosing old family secrets, old affairs, embarrassing psychopathology or pulling other skeletons out of the closet.
But it has begun to come into its own in recent years, and is the method of choice in the management of many psychopathologies.