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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
psychotic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
episode
▪ Mrs T had recently been readmitted to hospital following a psychotic episode.
▪ Homeless patients receive medication to get well enough to return to the streets where they live until their next psychotic episode.
▪ However, Marsilid also had more unwanted effects than its companion drug, and some patients experienced psychotic episodes.
▪ Larson cites a medical journal article of 22 years ago that compares a religious experience to a psychotic episode.
▪ A number of factors may then precipitate a psychotic episode, including emotionally arousing events and a stressful environment.
▪ Most of the psychotic episodes experienced by people using Halcion involved high doses for extended periods of time.
▪ Two sets of findings in particular suggest preventive strategies that could considerably reduce the prevalence of acute psychotic episodes.
illness
▪ First, it is clear that psychotic illness involves, if nothing else, a serious disruption of brain activity.
▪ Indeed, the results of very recent work reveal two interesting parallels with the conclusions reached about the psychotic illnesses themselves.
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psychotic delusions
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ First, it is clear that psychotic illness involves, if nothing else, a serious disruption of brain activity.
▪ He saw the psychotic in Curly Top, saw the arrogance of the bully paraded before him.
▪ Indeed, the results of very recent work reveal two interesting parallels with the conclusions reached about the psychotic illnesses themselves.
▪ Secondly, by no means all abnormal changes in mood signify a psychotic disturbance.
▪ She does learn that Michael has been given the anti- psychotic medication Haldol.
▪ She was raised by a lawyer whose psychotic behavior centered on the girl.
▪ There are competitors and then there are the few, the proud, the psychotic.
▪ They specifically admitted children who were behaviorally aggressive, not mentally deficient, brain damaged, or psychotic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
psychotic

1889, coined from psychosis, on the model of neurotic/neurosis, from Greek psykhe- "mind, soul" (see psyche).

psychotic

"a psychotic person," 1901, from psychotic (adj.).

Wiktionary
psychotic

a. Of, related to, or suffering from psychosis. n. A person affected by psychosis.

WordNet
psychotic

adj. suffering from psychosis

psychotic

n. a person afflicted with psychosis [syn: psychotic person, psycho]

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Usage examples of "psychotic".

Warren when they were in possession of medical reports confirming him as a homicidal psychotic.

Hatch and the psychotic who had killed the young blond punker named Lisa.

He set Thompson and Hankins up in that warehouse with the bum imagers, providing a psychotic transgenic with two possible victims.

It changed in sped-up corrasion, in the buckling of tectonics at some psychotic rate as if time was untethered from its rules.

Interestingly enough, when adrenochrome is injected into normal human subjects, temporary psychotic states resembling those of mental illness are produced.

He knew Ron was out to get him and, in his psychotic frame of mind, Harle wanted to retaliate, get back at the Ashberry family.

Evidently this was a manifestation of the demented, silly tactics of the psychotics living here, probably of the deteriorated ones, the hebephrenics of Gandhitown.

Unless Nims had been killed by a psychotic, something he had seen, done, said, been or tried for had gotten him killed.

That just leaves you, me, a depressed VanaShiva, an ecstatic Secta and a psychotic in-system.

Here was a psychotic madman living comfortably in an insane asylum, where he has convinced all the doctors that he has been miraculously transformed into a real sweetheart named Raymond Vulpes, who was perfectly sane.

She decided that she had spent all of that precious time in the company of idiots, fools, and crooks, listening to their harebrained or sociopathic plans and dreams, searching fruitlessly for nuggets of wisdom and interest in their boobish or psychotic stories.

Lonely, disappointed, and often psychotic people are attracted to spiritual circles and derive much benefit, but with newly-formed circles especially, great care must be taken in screening potential sitters.

When those airborne gimmicks blew, there was no telepathic beam to turn them into psychotics or us into Stinkers.

That they do not have reactive psychoses and do not suffer from psychotic microepisodes under stress.

And those regressives who killed for the primal thrill of blood sport were the worst of all psychotics who had chosen devolution over evolution.