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/saɪkˈoʊsəs/ Listen

noun

Psychosis n.

Any vital action or activity.

(Med.) A disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes.

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Etymology of 'Psychosis'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Psychosis" Quotes from Famous Books

... are guilty of onolatry. "Medical men have given a learned name to the malady of those who neglect the members of their own family and gush over animals (zooephilpsychosis). But Rousseau already exhibits this 'psychosis.' He abandoned his five children one after the other, but had, we are told, an unspeakable affection for his dog." As for the worship of nature, it leads to a "wise passiveness" instead of the wise energy ...

— The Art of Letters • Robert Lynd

... are repressed they are apt to cause a state of mental disease which in an aggravated form may lead the patient to the asylum, but in the incipient stage are as common as jackals in Africa. Zu Pfeiffer was suffering from such a case of mild psychosis. Brought up under an iron code which did not permit his instincts to react, the repressed emotions bubbled out in the form of a deification of his Kaiser and the adoration of Lucille, both states being absolutely apart from all reason, indeed approached to a state of dissociation ...

— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle

... no escape from his dark, senseless Gehenna by way of death, and even insanity offered no retreat; insanity in itself is senseless, and senselessness was what he was trying to flee. The only insanity possible was the psychosis of regression, a fleeing into the past, into the crystallized, ...

— Suite Mentale • Gordon Randall Garrett

... can boast, as yet, of no specifics, nor is it likely, perhaps, that such a boast will ever be made. It may be difficult to suppress the hope, but we cannot entertain the expectation, that some future Sydenham will discover an anti-psychosis which will as safely and speedily cut short an attack of mania or melancholia as bark an ...

— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke

... article went on, "it is the result of some toxic substance circulating in the blood. There is a polyneuritis psychosis, known as Korsakoff's syndrome, characterized by disturbances of the memory of recent events and false reminiscences, the ...

— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve

... stupors showed a definite relationship to manic-depressive insanity in that some patients passed directly from stupor to typical manic excitement, while in others a "catatonic" attack replaced a depression in a circular psychosis. ...

— Benign Stupors - A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type • August Hoch