psychosis

[ US /saɪˈkoʊsəs/ ]
[ UK /sa‍ɪkˈə‍ʊsɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
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How To Use psychosis In A Sentence

  • Animals are humanized, that is, the kinship between animal and human life is still keenly felt, and this reminds us of those early animistic interpretations of nature which subsequently led to doctrines of metempsychosis. The Art of the Story-Teller
  • The first obtains when the psychosis results from a misevaluation of environment. The Past Through Tomorrow
  • I think that Tilly's behavior on balance does indicate a kind of cetacean psychosis. Politics
  • Reich 1974 placed the impulsive character, the neurotic character, and the psychopath between neurosis and psychosis and observed the ambivalence, hostile pregenital impulses, ego and superego deficits, immature defenses, and primitive narcissistic features of the impulsive personality. Clinical Work with Adolescents
  • Related to these accounts of bodily transformation was the doctrine of metempsychosis, that is, the migration of the soul into another body after death.
  • The Greeks called it metempsychosis and the belief is widespread, possibly universal.
  • In a lot of companies that haven't done well, there is a fear psychosis that has to be dealt with, sandpapered out of the system. To Indian Bank's 'Turnaround Man,'
  • Clinical manifestations of overdose include agitation, hallucinations, psychosis, lethargy, seizures, tachycardia, dysrhythmia, hypertension, and hyperthermia.
  • A very small percentage of women will experience what is referred to as postpartum psychosis, a serious but rare illness affecting one to two of every one thousand new mothers. Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth
  • (Manic-depressive psychosis is an older term for the same kind of disorders). Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize
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