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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
psychotropic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
drug
▪ This does not mean that psychotropic drugs have no role in the treatment of patients who might attempt suicide.
▪ There are strong indications Applewhite had a history of psychiatric disorders and was once under heavy medication with psychotropic drugs.
▪ The technique is less popular today, having been superseded by psychotropic drugs.
▪ Diagnosing people in distancing ways encourages the 26 use of dramatic interventions, such as psychotropic drugs and electroshock therapy.
▪ In many cases it is particularly important to discuss the reasons for not prescribing psychotropic drugs.
▪ The use of psychotropic drugs is a pervasive dimension of the medicalization of problems of living.
▪ Indeed, more often it is necessary to consider stopping psychotropic drugs already prescribed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although many patients are prescribed psychotropic medication, only a small proportion of these will go on to take an overdose.
▪ Diagnosing people in distancing ways encourages the 26 use of dramatic interventions, such as psychotropic drugs and electroshock therapy.
▪ In many cases it is particularly important to discuss the reasons for not prescribing psychotropic drugs.
▪ Of course, it should not be assumed that prescribing of psychotropic medication for such problems actually causes patients to take overdoses.
▪ The pattern of self-poisoning with prescribed drugs largely reflects general prescribing patterns of psychotropic medication.
▪ The technique is less popular today, having been superseded by psychotropic drugs.
▪ This does not mean that psychotropic drugs have no role in the treatment of patients who might attempt suicide.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
psychotropic

1956, from psycho- + Greek -tropos "turning," from trepein (see trope). Hence, what "turns" the mind.

Wiktionary
psychotropic

a. (context pharmacology English) Affecting the mind or mental processes. n. (context pharmacology English) A psychotropic drug or agent.

WordNet
psychotropic

adj. affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes; "psychoactive drugs" [syn: psychoactive] [ant: nonpsychoactive]

Usage examples of "psychotropic".

In fact, the sites of action of many psychotropic drugs are in the limbic system.

Perhaps it was the pipe don Juan used when handling psychotropic mushrooms.

I had the strange conviction at that point that don Genaro must have used psychotropic plants in making his concoction.

Years before don Juan had produced in me a similar experi- ence but with the aid of a psychotropic plant.

I had always believed that he was referring to having used psychotropic mushrooms to have a view of me.

The only support for my intel- lect was my deep-seated certainty that one of the effects of the psychotropic smoking mixture was to induce me to hallucinate the size of the gnat.

Even though don Juan had made me perceive indescribable features of the world, I could not consider my experiences to be anything beyond a play on my perception, a directed mirage of sorts that he had managed to make me undergo, either by means of psychotropic plants, or by means I could not deduce rationally.

In ninety-nine fields out of a hundred the US is ahead of Britain because we spend more money, but in psychotropic genetics Mike Viners is way ahead of anyone else.

I had to go ahead without any significant foreplay, but I knew that he was wide awake, and I knew that he could tell himself, if it made it any easier for him, that it was only a delirious dream, only a hallucination, only some stray psychotropic protein making merry amid the synapses of his deluded brain.

I had also to wonder whether my very confusion, my inability to think straight, might be symptoms of a hypothetical psychotropic virus.

I knew that I had to consider the whole matter very carefully and objectively, lest I should ever have occasion to put it all on the record for the benefit of future generations of psychotropic geneticists, but it was difficult looking back on the Teresa situation with calm objectivity, and even harder to contemplate writing it all down one day in careful scientific language.

If anything, she had given me further evidence to support the hypothesis that alien psychotropic DNA was having a ball inside my brain.

I thought, if Mike Viners was right about all our dreams and neuroses being rooted in the activity of psychotropic DNA, domestic or alien or both in collaboration, what difference did it make where the ultimate source of my trouble lay?

Viners might find when he analysed my blood was that something in me had helped to turn a previously harmless virus into a vicious psychotropic plague.

Dorik Harbin ingested psychotropic drugs to increase his battle prowess.