Tra từ mind - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

1 the brain and the mind
2 mental health and mental illness
see also THINK

1 the brain and the mind
- the part of your body inside your head that controls your thoughts, feelings and movements: brain
- a person's thoughts and feelings: mind (noun C/U)
There's no doubt in my mind about his innocence. ◎ to be fit in mind and body
- the part of your mind of which you are not aware: the subconscious (mind), the unconscious (mind)
- the part of you that is not physical; your thoughts and feelings, not your body: spirit (noun singular); adjective: spiritual
the life of the spirit ◎ spiritual needs
- connected with the mind: mental (adverb mentally), psychological (adverb psychologically)
mental abilities ◎ psychological problems ◎ She was very strong both physically and psychologically.
- a type of mind or way of thinking: mentality
I can't understand his mentality.
- the ability to remember things: memory (noun C/U)
a good memory for dates ◎ loss of memory
- the ability to learn or understand: intelligence (noun U)
She shows signs of exceptional intelligence.
- the ability to think clearly; intelligence: mind, brain
She has a brilliant mind. ◎ Use your brain! ◎ to have a good brain
- the power of the mind to choose what actions to take: will (noun C/U)
a strong will ◎ to exercise free will
※ more on memory REMEMBER/FORGET
- more on intelligence CLEVER
- the study of the mind and the way people behave: psychology (noun U); connected with psychology: psychological
- a person who is trained in psychology: psychologist

2 mental health and mental illness
- the condition of people's minds: mental health (noun U)
- in good mental health: sane; a state of good mental health: sanity (noun U)
Her advice kept me sane. ◎ The change of scene restored my sanity.
- a state of mind which is not normal: mental illness (noun C/U), (informal) madness (noun U), (formal) insanity (noun C/U)
- connected with mental illness: mental (adverb mentally)
a mental hospital ◎ a mental patient ◎ mentally disturbed
- a person whose mind does not work in a normal way is mentally ill, (especially AmE) crazy
Note: a person with a mental illness used to be called a madman/madwoman or lunatic, but these words and the adjectives mad and insane are not usually used nowadays.
- a feeling of worry caused by difficulties in your life: stress (noun U)
work-related stress ◎ to experience a lot of stress
- a type of mental illness in which you feel extremely unhappy: depression (noun C/U); a person in this condition is depressed
After his divorce, he went into a deep depression. ◎ She's had several bouts of depression this year.
- if you become so depressed that you cannot work, you have a nervous breakdown, (informal) you crack up
You'll crack up completely unless you take a holiday.
- a mental illness that causes strong feelings of fear and worry: neurosis (plural neuroses); adjective: neurotic (adverb neurotically)
- a belief that is completely wrong: delusion
to suffer from delusions
- a type of mental illness that makes sb believe that other people want to hurt them: paranoia (noun U); adjective: paranoid
- a serious mental illness in which a person confuses the real world with the world of the imagination and behaves in strange ways: schizophrenia (noun U); a person who has this illness: schizophrenic; adjective: schizophrenic
- the study and treatment of mental illness: psychiatry (noun U); adjective: psychiatric; a person who is trained in psychiatry: psychiatrist
- a way of treating mental illness by asking questions about a person's past life or dreams: psychoanalysis (noun U); adjective: psychoanalytic(al); a person who is trained in psychoanalysis: psychoanalyst, analyst
- a way of treating mental illness without drugs: psychotherapy (noun U); a person who is trained in psychotherapy: psychotherapist
- a person who is trained to talk and listen to people with personal and psychological problems: counsellor (AmE counselor); a series of meetings with a counsellor: counselling (AmE counseling)(noun U)
He's been having counselling to help him get over the shock.
- a place where mentally ill people are treated: mental hospital