psychopathological
- adjective
- /ˌsaɪkoʊpæθəˈlɑdʒɪkəl/
- Specialized
- He studied psychopathological conditions to find effective treatments for those struggling with mental illness.
- psychopathological symptoms
- psychopathological conditions
- psychopathological disorders
Examples
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Relating to illnesses of the mind, such as depression
Relates to how a person thinks and feels
About the treatment of people with mental illness
Having a strong, unhealthy need that harms daily life
Relating to mental illness when people have unusual thoughts or actions
Antonyms
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.