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psychotic, a. and n.|-ˈɒtɪk|
[f. Gr. type *ψῡχωτικ-ός, f. ψύχωσις: see psychosis and -otic.]
A. adj.
a. Of or pertaining to psychosis.
b. = psychagogic a. 3.
1890Billings Nat. Med. Dict., Psychotic, psychagogic. 1895Syd. Soc. Lex., Psychotic, belonging to Psychosis. Also, used as synonymous with Psychagogic or Analeptic. 1920C. S. Read Milit. Psychiatry in Peace & War ii. 21 These figures..include pure epilepsy without any psychotic complications. 1949Endeavour VIII. 37/1 The use of electric shock therapy for the treatment of certain types of psychotic patients is sometimes complicated by injuries suffered during the electrically produced convulsions. 1957Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. XVI. 8 Among psychologists, ‘psychotic break’ refers to the breaking loose of feeling from its previously adequate controls. 1965J. Pollitt Depression & its Treatment i. 4 In advanced states the patient lacks insight and becomes psychotic. 1971Brit. Med. Bull. XXVII. 77/1 An equally strong case can be made for the opposite view, that psychotic and neurotic forms of depression lie on the same continuum.
B. absol. as n. A person with a psychosis.
1910Jrnl. Nervous & Mental Disease XXXVII. 633 Thus arise the well-known ‘explanation-delusions’ of the psychotic. 1921E. J. Kempf Psychopathology xiv. 718 Many ask the question.., ‘Why do all neurotics and psychotics have sexual difficulties?’ 1939J. Dollard in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 278/2 Psychotics in American hospitals display disorders of perception. 1958M. Argyle Relig. Behaviour ix. 109 Many psychotics believe themselves to be religious leaders, prophets or mystics. 1962Lancet 8 Dec. 1212/1 It might be that because some beds had been freed from psychotics, patients with neuroses or personality disorders..could be admitted to hospital. 1975B. Meggs Matter of Paradise vii. i. 189 You're asking..whether..we might hope to identify a deteriorated psychotic before he enters government.
Hence psyˈchotically adv.
1961in Webster. 1977Irish Press 29 Sept. 6/5 The ingredients include a weak and unsuccessful father who died young and an over protective mother whose motives were selfish rather than loving, and who was almost psychotically indifferent to George's progress except to record the inconvenience it caused her. |