psychosis (redirected from Brief reactive psychosis)

psy·cho·sis  (s-kss)

n. pl. psy·cho·ses (-sz)

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.

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psychosis [sike-oh-siss, -seez]

Noun

pl -ses a severe mental disorder in which the sufferer's contact with reality becomes highly distorted: a classic case of psychosis

psychotic adj

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psychosis  (s-kss)

Plural psychoses (s-ksz)

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.

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psychotic adjective (s-ktk)

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psychosis

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

See also: Insanity

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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 [pl psychoses] [saɪˈkəusɪs, -siːz] n → psicosis f inv

psychosis [psychoses , pl ] [saɪˈkəusɪs, -siːz] n → psychose f

psychosis [saɪˈkəusɪs] [psychoses , pl ] n → Psychose f

psychosis [pl psychoses] [saɪˈkəusɪs, -siːz] n → psicosi f inv