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Definition of Psychological disorder
1. Noun. (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness.
Category relationships: Psychiatry, Psychological Medicine, Psychopathology
Generic synonyms: Disorder, Upset
Specialized synonyms: Asperger's Syndrome, Anxiety Disorder, Psychosomatic Disorder, Aberration, Conversion Disorder, Conversion Hysteria, Conversion Reaction, Delirium, Delusional Disorder, Encopresis, Folie A Deux, Personality Disorder, Affective Disorder, Emotional Disorder, Emotional Disturbance, Major Affective Disorder, Schizothymia, Neurosis, Neuroticism, Psychoneurosis, Dissociative Disorder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychological Disorder
Literary usage of Psychological disorder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1858)
"... may produce mental derangement, without any attendant evidence of inflammation
or even vascu- lar excitement, except the simple psychological disorder; ..."
2. Americans with Disabilities Act Handbook, 1991 (1993)
"... or any mental or psychological disorder. The existence of an impairment is to
be determined without regard to mitigating measures such as medicines, ..."
3. A Technical Aassistance Manual on the Employment Provisions (Title I) of the ... (1993)
"... or any mental or psychological disorder. The existence of an impairment is to
be determined without regard to mitigating measures such as medicines, ..."
4. State Methadone Treatment Guidelines: A Treatment Improvement Protocol by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"The patient is in compliance with care for a concurrent alcohol, medical, or
psychological disorder. • Take-home doses will enhance a patient's ..."
5. Helping Employers Comply with the ADA: An Assessment of How the United edited by Roy G. Moy (2000)
"... guidance defines "impairment" as "a physiological disorder affecting one or
more of a number of body systems or a mental or psychological disorder. ..."
6. Batterer Intervention: Program Approaches & Criminal Justice Strategies by Christine Smith, Kerry Healey, Chris O'Sullivan (1999)
"In practice, many psychologically oriented programs have moved away from the
original stance that battering is caused primarily by psychological disorder ..."
7. Mental Health and Rural America, 1980-1993: 1980-1993: An Overview and by Morton O. Wagenfeld, J. Dennis Murray, Dennis F. Mohatt, Jeanne C. DeBruyn (1996)
"... and rural/ urban differences in psychological disorder in several states.
One of their early studies was conducted in rural counties of Tennessee in ..."
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