Brief reactive psychosis

psy·cho·sis (s

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n. pl. psy·cho·ses (-s

A severe mental disorder, with or without organic damage, characterized by derangement of personality and loss of contact with reality and causing deterioration of normal social functioning.

psychosis [saɪˈkəʊsɪs]

n pl -choses [-ˈkəʊsiːz]

(Psychiatry) any form of severe mental disorder in which the individual's contact with reality becomes highly distorted Compare neurosis

[New Latin, from psycho- + -osis]

psychosis (s

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Plural psychoses (s

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A mental state caused by psychiatric or organic illness, characterized by a loss of contact with reality and an inability to think rationally. A psychotic person often behaves inappropriately and is incapable of normal social functioning.

psychotic adjective (s

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psychosis

any severe mental disorder or disease. — psychotic, n., adj.

See also: Insanity

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Noun

psychosis - any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted

mental disease, mental illness, psychopathy - any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention

delirium tremens, DTs - acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning

paranoia - a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur

dementia praecox, schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis - any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact

Translations

psychosis [saɪˈkəʊsɪs] N (psychoses (pl)) [saɪˈkəʊsiːz] → psicosis f inv

psychosis [saɪˈkəʊsɪs] [psychoses] [saɪˈkəʊsiːz] (pl) n → psychose f

psychosis

n pl <psychoses> → Psychose f

psychosis [saɪˈkəʊsɪs] n (psychoses (pl)) [saɪˈkəʊsiːz‘] → psicosi f inv

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acute schizophrenic episode
alcohol amnestic disorder
alcoholic dementia
borderline schizophrenia
catatonic schizophrenia
catatonic type schizophrenia
dementedness
dementia
dementia praecox
disorganized schizophrenia
disorganized type schizophrenia
Korsakoff's psychosis
Korsakoff's syndrome
Korsakoffian
Korsakov's psychosis
Korsakov's syndrome
latent schizophrenia
manic-depressive psychosis
polyneuritic psychosis

Colman (7) established for Lear a diagnosis of brief reactive psychosis with a background of organic mental disorder, perhaps of a vascular origin, exemplified by the king's visual hallucinations and an intimation of a stroke just before Lear's death, since "he asks for help to undo one of his buttons.

Literary psychiatric observation and diagnosis through the ages: King ... by Truskinovsky, Alexander M. / Southern Medical Journal

Brief Management Counselling & Training
Brief Mental Deterioration Battery
Brief Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test
Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale
brief multifactorial questionnaire for personality examination
Brief Negative Symptom Assessment
Brief Neuropsychological Cognitive Examination
Brief Nudity
Brief of Evidence
Brief of Petitioners
Brief of title
Brief of title
brief on
Brief Oral Health Status Examination
Brief Pain Diary
Brief Pain Inventory
Brief Pain Inventory
Brief Patient Health Questionnaire
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale Expanded version
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale for Children
Brief Psychiatric Symptom Rating Scale
Brief psychotherapy
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Brief reactive psychosis

Brief Reasons for Living Inventory for Adolescents
Brief Repeatable Battery of Neuropsychological Tests
Brief Repetitive Isometric Exercise
Brief Resisted Isometric Exercise
brief silence
Brief Skills-Training Program
Brief Smell Identification Test
Brief Social Phobia Scale
Brief Social Support Questionnaire
Brief Solution Focused Therapy
Brief Stop for Ammo Lift
Brief Stop for Cargo/Lift/Delivery
Brief Stop For Fuel
Brief Stop, Embark/Debark Personnel
Brief Strategic and Systemic Therapy Network
Brief Strategic Family Therapy
Brief Symptom Inventory
Brief Symptom Inventory
Brief Symptom Rating Scale
Brief Test of Head Injury
Brief Therapy Institute of Denver
Brief Therapy Institute of Sydney
Brief Treatment Outcome Measure
Brief Upper Airway Dysfunction
Brief Visit

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