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mental illness

A Dictionary of Nursing | 2008 | 277 words | Copyright

mental illness n. a disorder of one or more of the functions of the mind, which causes suffering to the patient or others. Mental illnesses are broadly categorized as psychoses, in which the capacity for appreciating reality is lost, or neuroses, in which insight is retained.

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