Psychosis is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PSYCHOSIS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a serious mental disorder characterized by e.g. illusions, delusions, hallucinations, mental confusion and a lack of insight on the part of the patient into his or her condition
• a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality
• Any vital action or activity.
• A disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes.
• any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
• severe mental disorder in which the sufferer's contact with reality becomes distorted
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• fundamental derangement of the mind (as in schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality especially as evidenced by delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized speech and behavior
• severe mental disorder in which the sufferer\'s contact with reality becomes distorted

Words related to PSYCHOSIS

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Words that contain PSYCHOSIS

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How to use PSYCHOSIS in a sentence

• One can question his obvious strategy of playing on minority fears and building up a minority psychosis.
• Aside from this, it is difficult to see wherein the psychosis resembles an hysterical disorder.
• Such individuals may pass through life, if fortunate enough, without developing a real psychosis.
• The essential point here is not the so-called psychosis, but the soil which made the development possible.
• Occasionally we also see a case of organic brain disease or manic-depressive psychosis, and in more frequent instances a case of epilepsy.
• This is a fair example of what has been termed an acute prison psychosis, and occurs with considerable frequency among prisoners awaiting trial.
• His psychosis takes the usual course, he recovers soon after having been removed from the oppressing environment.
• The same degenerative soil which makes the development of the psychosis possible in one case, expresses itself in crime in another instance.
• The stresses which these defective individuals meet with in freedom need not have such a strong influence upon them as to produce a psychosis.
• Following imprisonment on a charge of robbery, he develops a psychosis which necessitates his transfer to an insane asylum.
• His psychosis is unquestionably one belonging to that large group developing on a degenerative basis, the same soil which is at the bottom of his criminal career.
• The habitual criminal who suffers from a degenerative psychosis, unless he is in a stupor, is constantly on the alert for a chance to escape.
• In both instances the psychosis represents an attempt to get away from a painful reality by individuals who are quite incapable of meeting such reality face to face.
• The history of this attack illustrates a typical case of hysterical psychosis.
• It is a form of reaction frequently seen in prisoners, and has been designated, for want of a better term, as prison psychosis.
• At that time the patient had been on excellent behavior for a number of months, and in his daily conduct showed no evidence of a psychosis.

Similar words containing PSYCHOSI without suffix s

parapsychosis25 metempsychosis28 metempsychosist29

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