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Definition of Emotional disturbance
1. Noun. Any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant.
Generic synonyms: Disturbance, Folie, Mental Disorder, Mental Disturbance, Psychological Disorder
Specialized synonyms: Clinical Depression, Depression, Depressive Disorder, Mania, Manic Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Manic Depression, Manic Depressive Illness, Manic-depressive Psychosis
Medical Definition of Emotional disturbance
1. See: mental illness, behaviour disorder. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emotional Disturbance
Literary usage of Emotional disturbance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... exposure to the sun, acute diseases, digestive derangements, alcoholism,
menstrual disorders, sudden fright or similar emotional disturbance, ..."
2. Contracting for Managed Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services: A Guide ...by Stephen Moss by Stephen Moss (2000)
"... Appendix E—Definitions of Adults With a Serious Mental Illness (SMI) and
Children With a Serious emotional disturbance (SED) Under the Community Mental ..."
3. Mental Health, United States, 1996 edited by Ronald W. Manderscheid, Mary A. Sonnenschein (1998)
"Chapter 6 Prevalence of Serious emotional disturbance in Children and Adolescents
Robert M. Friedman, Ph.D. Florida Mental Health Institute Judith W. ..."
4. Mental Health, United States, 1998 edited by Ronald W Manderscheid, Marilyn J Henderson (1999)
"These estimates were based on a definition of "serious emotional disturbance"
developed by CMHS after considerable input from the field and have been ..."
5. Valuation: Its Nature and Laws, Being an Introduction to the General Theory by Wilbur Marshall Urban (1909)
"For, in the first place, the sensitivity which is dulled is the emotional
disturbance, and this owes its first intensity to contrast, to the disturbance of ..."
6. A Pictorial atlas of skin diseases and syphilitic affections: In Photo by Hôpital Saint Louis (Paris, France), Ernest Besnier, John James Pringle (1904)
"... coinciding sometimes with glycosuria, following on emotional disturbance or
alternating with different nervous derangements. It is sometimes accompanied ..."
7. The Practitioner's Manual: A Condensed System of Medical Diagnosis and Treatment by Charles Warrenne Allen (1899)
"... of movement in their convulsion, with more rigidity of a tetanic character
than is seen in epilepsy and there is more emotional disturbance. ..."
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