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Psychosis — Not to be confused with Psychopathy. For other uses, see Psychosis (disambiguation). Psychosis Classification and external resources ICD 10 F20 F29[1] ICD 9 … Wikipedia
Schizophrenia — MeshName = Schizophrenia MeshNumber = F03.700.750 Schizophrenia (pron en|ˌskɪtsəˈfriːniə), from the Greek roots schizein (σχίζειν, to split ) and phrēn , phren (φρήν, φρεν , mind ) is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder… … Wikipedia
Schizophrenia: Emergence — (See also Psychosis: Emergence; Schizophrenia: Recent Concepts; Unitary Psychosis; Wernicke–Kleist–Leonhard Pathway.) Schizophrenia remains among the most puzzling of all diseases in psychiatry because there is no single symptom… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Schizophrenia/Dementia Praecox: Emergence of the Concept — (See also Psychosis: Emergence; Schizophrenia: Recent Concepts; Unitary Psychosis; Wernicke–Kleist–Leonhard Pathway.) Schizophrenia remains among the most puzzling of all diseases in psychiatry because there is no single symptom… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Schizophrenia: Recent Concepts — (See also Schizophrenia: Emergence.) After the Second World War, two contradictory tendencies hallmarked the approach to the psychoses and schizophrenia. One was the growing predominance of psychoanalysis, with its tendency to use the term… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Psychosis: Emergence of Concepts — (See also Folie à Deux; French Chronic Delusional States [from 1909]; Paranoia; Paraphrenia; Positive vs. Negative Symptoms; Schizophrenia: Emergence; Unitary Psychosis.) In medicine, psychosis can mean (1) loss of contact with reality, in… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
psychosis — /suy koh sis/, n., pl. psychoses / seez/. 1. a mental disorder characterized by symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, that indicate impaired contact with reality. 2. any severe form of mental disorder, as schizophrenia or paranoia. [1840 … Universalium
Schizophrenia — One of several brain diseases whose symptoms that may include loss of personality (flat affect), agitation, catatonia, confusion, psychosis, unusual behavior, and withdrawal. The illness usually begins in early adulthood. The causes of… … Medical dictionary
Psychosis — In the general sense, a mental illness that markedly interferes with a person s capacity to meet life s everyday demands. In a specific sense, it refers to a thought disorder in which reality testing is grossly impaired. Symptoms can include… … Medical dictionary
psychosis — The medical Latin term psychosis comes from the Greek noun psuchosis (the giving of life, the process of animating). Despite its widespread use in biomedicine and psychology, it lacks a straightforward and unambiguous definition. A classical… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
