Psychosis vs. Neurosis
Psychosisnoun
(psychology) A severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.
Psychosisnoun
Any vital action or activity.
Psychosisnoun
A disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes.
Psychosisnoun
any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
Psychosisnoun
a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality
Psychosis
Psychosis is an abnormal condition of the mind that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real. Symptoms may include delusions and hallucinations.
Neurosisnoun
(pathology) A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear which differ from normal measures by their intensity, which disorder results from a failure to compromise or properly adjust during the developmental stages of life, between normal human instinctual impulses and the demands of human society.
Neurosisnoun
A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure.
Neurosisnoun
a mental or emotional disorder that affects only part of the personality, and involves less distorted perceptions of reality than a psychosis. As used in medicine, anxiety is a prominent characteristic, and the condition may be accompanied by psychosomatic symptoms. Phobias and compulsive behavior are common varieties.
Neurosisnoun
a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
Neurosis
Neurosis is a class of functional mental disorders involving chronic distress, but neither delusions nor hallucinations. The term is no longer used by the professional psychiatric community in the United States, having been eliminated from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1980 with the publication of DSM III. However, it is still used in the ICD-10 Chapter V F40–48.
