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psychopathology

Noun

Meaning

the branch of psychology concerned with abnormal behavior

the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders

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The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology. J. G. Ballard

Once you had read the Psychopathology of Everyday Life, you knew that everyday life was psychopathology. Saul Bellow

This is an excellent research report that should, once and for all, resolve senseless controversies about the correlation of creativity with psychopathology. Arnold M. Ludwig

I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game. J. G. Ballard

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it. Anthony Storr

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power. Robert A. Heinlein

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