Definition of Emotional disorder

1. Noun. Any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant.


Medical Definition of Emotional disorder

1. See: mental illness, behaviour disorder. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Emotional Disorder

emoticon
emoticons
emoting
emotion
emotionable
emotional
emotional age
emotional amenorrhoea
emotional amnesia
emotional arousal
emotional attitudes
emotional blackmail
emotional build
emotional deprivation
emotional disease
emotional disorder (current term)
emotional disturbance
emotional intelligence
emotional leukocytosis
emotional overlay
emotional person
emotional pivot
emotional pivots
emotional state
emotional structure
emotional structures
emotionalisation
emotionalisations
emotionalise
emotionalised

Literary usage of Emotional disorder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Insanity by New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum (1906)
"1906] JW WHERRY having both an intellectual and an emotional disorder at the same moment, without them bearing any intimate relation to each other, ..."

2. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1879)
"The physician looks for other conditions of emotional disorder, ... Other conditions associated with emotional disorder are due to toxic factors in relation ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Medico-Psychological Association Annual Meeting by American Medico-Psychological Association (1905)
"having both an intellectual and an emotional disorder at the same moment, without them bearing any intimate relation to each other, and without either being ..."

4. Contracting for Managed Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services: A Guide ...by Stephen Moss by Stephen Moss (2000)
"... have had a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder of sufficient duration to meet diagnostic criteria specified within DSM-III-R, ..."

5. Mental Health, United States, 1998 edited by Ronald W Manderscheid, Marilyn J Henderson (1999)
"Concepts and Definitions Definition of Mental/emotional disorder The presence of mental/emotional problems was ascertained by the NHIS-D through a set of ..."

6. Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice: Federal Agencies Could Play a Stronger by Cornelia M. Ashby, Diana Petrowski, Kathleen D. White (2003)
"Where a parent voluntarily places a child with an emotional disorder with the Department of Human services for the purpose of accessing an out-of- home ..."

7. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"On the whole the attacks of emotional disorder that characterize cyclothymia and are expressed in its Greek designation are self- limited in their course ..."

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