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 (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion;
 a more neutral term than mental illness
 • Syn:
 mental disorder, mental disturbance, disturbance, psychological disorder
 • Topics:
 psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicine
 • Hypernyms:
 disorder, upset
 • Hyponyms:
 Asperger's syndrome, anxiety disorder, psychosomatic disorder, aberration, conversion disorder,
 conversion reaction, conversion hysteria, delirium, delusional disorder, encopresis, folie a deux,
 personality disorder, affective disorder, major affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, schizothymia,
 neurosis, neuroticism, psychoneurosis, dissociative disorder
 
 
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