English > mental disorder: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness. |
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| Synonyms | mental disturbance, disturbance, psychological disorder, folie |
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| Category | psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicine | The branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders |
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| Narrower | Asperger's syndrome | A psychiatric disorder usually noted during early school years |
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| aberration | A disorder in one's mental state |
| affective disorder, major affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance | Any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant |
| anxiety disorder | A cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom |
| conversion disorder, conversion reaction, conversion hysteria | A mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause) |
| delirium | A usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations |
| delusional disorder | Any mental disorder in which delusions play a significant role |
| dissociative disorder | dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down |
| encopresis | involuntary defecation not attributable to physical defects or illness |
| folie a deux | The simultaneous occurrence of symptoms of a mental disorder (as delusions) in two persons who are closely related (as siblings or man and wife) |
| neurosis, neuroticism, psychoneurosis | A mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction |
| personality disorder | Inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior |
| psychosomatic disorder | A mental disorder that causes somatic symptoms |
| schizothymia | resembling schizophrenia but remaining within the bounds of normality |
| Broader | disorder, upset | A physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal / normal functioning |
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| Spanish | desequilibrio mental, enfermedad mental, folie, perturbación mental, perturbación, trastorno |
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| Catalan | desequilibri mental, folie, pertorbació mental |
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