psychopathologyn.
/ˌsʌɪkəʊpəˈθɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkoʊpəˈθɑlədʒi/ 1. The study of pathological mental and behavioural processes; an instance of this.
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pathology1789
psychopathology1847
1847 H. E. Lloyd & B. G. Babington tr. E. von Feuchtersleben Princ. Med. Psychol. 70 Psychopathology [Ger. Psycho-Pathologie] has not yet acquired sufficient light respecting these critical processes.
1895 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Psychopathology, the science treating of the legal aspect of insanity. Also, the pathology of insanity.
1951 D. B. Klein Abnormal Psychol. 5 The study of mental disorder bulks large in the field of abnormal psychology, so that a good portion of this field might be regarded as coterminous with that of psychopathology.
1969 T. Freeman Psychopathol. of Psychoses i. 2 Psychopathology has a wider subject-matter than the study of ‘conscious psychic events’... To be comprehensive it must take account of psychoanalysis... It must also be based on certain aspects of neurology and internal medicine.
1993 Harper's Mag. Jan. 25/1 Such a suggestion is clearly inimical to the idea that psychopathology should be considered as a natural science.
2. Abnormal psychology; an abnormal psychological process or state.
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psychopathy1847
psychopathology1947
1947 D. Jones in R. Hague Dai Greatcoat (1980) ii. 139 Everything one does is conditioned by one's psychopathology.
1968 J. Zubin in J. Zubin & C. Shagass Neurobiol. Aspects of Psychopathol. 289 We define personality as the systematic aspect of a person's behavior, and psychopathology as those aspects of this systematic behavior attributable to illness.
1986 S. Orbach Hunger Strike vii. 127 The well-developed syndrome of anorexia is not simply the result of a particular psychopathology.
2004 A. McCall Smith Sunday Philos. Club xvi. 181 They might argue that their acts are the result of their psychopathology. They act the way they do because of their personality disorder.
Derivatives
ˌpsychopaˈthologist n. an expert or specialist in psychopathology.
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toxicologist1829
functionalist1851
neuropathologist1860
psychopathologist1863
neuropathist1864
histopathologist1872
fluidist1888
nephrologist1888
neuropath1896
phthisiologist1928
immunopathologist1954
physiopathologist1958
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > study of > person
psychopathist1853
psychopathologist1863
1863 D. D. Home's Incidents Life Introd. 15 To the psychopathologist..this detail may serve to advance an important scientific purpose.
1919 W. S. Maugham Moon & Sixpence i. 7 The mystic sees the ineffable and the psycho-pathologist the unspeakable.
1990 R. Blount First Hubby 268 Don't give any more interviews. Unless it's to a licensed psychopathologist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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