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psychotic person

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Noun1.psychotic person - a person afflicted with psychosispsychotic person - a person afflicted with psychosis    
psycho, psychotic
cataleptic - a person suffering from catalepsy
paranoiac, paranoid - a person afflicted with paranoia
schizophrenic - someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia
diseased person, sick person, sufferer - a person suffering from an illness
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But we should not assume that there are rational reasons behind the acts of a psychotic person.
Fink! Still at large: random violence such as the recent shooting in ... by Fink, Paul J. / Clinical Psychiatry News
56) Similarly, Jung acknowledges that fragments of archetypal spiritual themes and symbols occur frequently in the experiences of psychotic persons, but points out that "the associations are unsystematic, abrupt, grotesque, absurd and correspondingly difficult if not impossible to understand.
Visionary spiritual experiences by Lukoff, David / Southern Medical Journal
And we can't lock up or otherwise detain every strange, goofy, or marginally psychotic person.
Who's to Blame for the Massacre at Virginia Tech? by Terry Mitchell / CommenTerry
 
 
 
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