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psychopathological

psychopathological

1 9.9
Relating to mental illness and unusual thoughts or behavior
  • adjective
  • /ˌsaɪkoʊpæθəˈlɑdʒɪkəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : psicopatológico
  • He studied psychopathological conditions to find effective treatments for those struggling with mental illness.
  • psychopathological symptoms
  • psychopathological conditions
  • psychopathological disorders

Examples

  • The road toward a complete understanding of the workings of the brain in both healthy and psychopathological conditions will surely be very long and very arduous.

    Academic text (2001)
  • The therapist focused on treating the patient's psychopathological symptoms to improve their mental health.

  • In summary, we can easily agree that clinical experience tends to show that some psychopathological characteristics group together.

    Academic text (1995)
  • In research supporting the foregoing view, psychopathological traits have not always been associated with cruel acts.

    Academic text (2000)
  • When successfully resolved, this experience tended to result in a dramatic disappearance of longstanding psychopathological problems.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Hallucinations are among the most impressive of psychopathological symptoms and may appear in all the sensory modalities.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Further, the specific psychopathological predictors identified in the model have implications for rural intervention programs targeting aggressive youth.

    Academic text (2007)
  • According to Horney, alienation could be related to psychopathological states similar to neurosis, including a delay in the growth and actualization of the individual.

    Academic text (2003)
  • More clinically, they defined borderline personality as having psychopathological troubles lying on the frontier between neurosis and psychosis.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Research on psychopathological disorders helps us understand how mental illnesses can affect behavior.

Synonyms

mental
vspsychopathological
  • Specialized
606 3.7

Relating to illnesses of the mind, such as depression

is specific to psychopathology and clinical disorder features
psychological
vspsychopathological
543 4.5

Relates to how a person thinks and feels

focuses on clinical mental disorders rather than general mental processes
psychiatric
vspsychopathological
  • Specialized
217 5.4

About the treatment of people with mental illness

focuses on disorder characteristics rather than medical care or study
pathological
vspsychopathological
  • Specialized
52 7.9

Having a strong, unhealthy need that harms daily life

is broader, covering clinical disorder features beyond compulsive behaviour
psychopathologic
vspsychopathological
  • Specialized
9.9

Relating to mental illness when people have unusual thoughts or actions

is about clinical features and patterns of mental disorder

Antonyms

695 1.0

In good body and mind condition without sickness or injury

Surface Forms

Morphology

psychopathological = psychopathology (semi-transparent) = psychopathology + ical

The adjective is formed by adding the productive adjectival suffix '-ical' to the noun 'psychopathology', producing the standard meaning 'relating to psychopathology'.

Etymology

Psychopathological is made of psycho- meaning 'mind', patho- meaning 'disease', and -logical as in psychology and pathology, meaning 'study'. So psychopathological describes things that are about 'diseases of the mind' and is used for mental disorders.