psychopathology

English

Etymology

From psycho- +‎ pathology.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌsaɪ̯kɒpəˈθɒlədʒɪ/
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Noun

psychopathology (countable and uncountable, plural psychopathologies)

  1. (medicine, pathology) The study of the origin, development, diagnosis and treatment of mental and behavioural disorders.
  2. (countable) A mental or behavioral disorder.
    Hyponym: psychopathy
    • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 91:
      Our fear and loathing for parasites is obviously adaptive. But this fear can itself mutate into a psychopathology.
    • 2019 October, Wan-jun Guo, Yu-jie Tao, Xiao-jing Li, Xia Lin, Ya-jing Meng, Xia Yang, et al., “Internet addiction severity and risk for psychopathology, serious mental illness, and suicidalities: a cross-sectional study”, in The Lancet‎[1], volume 394:
      The prevalence and risks of the four psychopathologies and their comorbidities, serious mental illness, and suicidalities increased significantly with internet addiction severity (p values from 0·0003 to <0·0001), and most increments in risk were large (ORs increasing more than four times, except for suicidalities) for students with moderate and severe internet addiction.

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