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chlorpromazine
chlorpromazine , one of a group of tranquilizing drugs called phenothiazines that are useful in halting psychotic episodes. Chlorpromazine, sold under the trade name Thorazine, is often used to reduce the severe anxiety and agitation and the overactivity of some forms of schizophrenia . ... Read more
narcosis
narcosis , state of stupor induced by drugs. The use of narcotics as a therapeutic aid in psychiatry is believed to have a history dating back to the use of opium for mental disorders by the early Egyptians. Prolonged narcosis was employed at the beginning of the 20th cent.; its chief value was the ... Read more
psychosis
psychosis , in psychiatry , a broad category of mental disorder encompassing the most serious emotional disturbances, often rendering the individual incapable of staying in contact with reality. Until recently, the term was used in contrast with neurosis , which denoted the "mild" mental disor... Read more
reserpine
reserpine , alkaloid isolated from the root of the snakeroot plant ( Rauwolfia serpentina ), a small evergreen climbing shrub of the dogbane family native to the Indian subcontinent. Known in India as Sarpaganda, it was used for centuries to treat insanity as well as physical illnesses such as fever... Read more
Glenn Close
Glenn Close 1947-, American actress, b. Greenwich, Conn. She began her career in the theater, debuting on Broadway in Love for Love (1974), winning an Obie for the off-Broadway The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs (1982) and a Tony for Tom Stoppard 's The Real Thing (1984). She achieved immedia... Read more
psychopharmacology
psychopharmacology , in its broadest sense, the study of all pharmacological agents that affect mental and emotional functions. The term is usually applied more specifically to the study and synthesis of drugs used in the control of psychiatric illnesses, namely the antipsychotic, antianxiety, antid... Read more
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch , 1863-1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist. He studied in Oslo and under Bonnat in Paris and traveled in Europe. He abandoned impressionism and in the 1890s, from a profound personal sense of isolation, visually examined such primal themes as birth, death, thwarted love, sex,... Read more
shaman
shaman , religious practitioner in various, generally small-scale societies who is believed to be able to diagnose, cure, and sometimes cause illness because of a special relationship with, or control over, spirits. Different forms of shamanism are found around the world; they are also known as med... Read more
chronic fatigue syndrome
chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), collection of persistent, debilitating symptoms, the most notable of which is severe, lasting fatigue. In other countries it is known variously as myalgic encephalomyelitis, chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and postviral fatigue syndrome. It was first... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "psychotic"

Substance-induced psychotic disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders Substance-induced psychotic disorder Definition Prominent psychotic symptoms (i.e., hallucinations and/or delusions...substance is the primary feature of a substance-induced psychotic disorder. A substance may induce psychotic symptoms...
Brief psychotic disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders Brief psychotic disorder Definition Brief psychotic disorder is a short-term, time-limited disorder. An individual with brief psychotic disorder has experienced at least one of the major symptoms...
Shared psychotic disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders Shared psychotic disorder Definition Shared psychotic disorder, a rare and atypical psychotic disorder, occurs when an otherwise healthy person (secondary partner) begins believing the delusions of someone with whom they have a close relationship...
Schizoaffective disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...disorder. This condition involves both psychotic symptoms and conspicuous, long-enduring...disorder, major depressive episode with psychotic features, or schizophrenia . The schizoaffective...disorder, the experiencing of mood and psychotic symptoms occurs predominantly simultaneously...
Schizophreniform disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...or near-absent emotionality are all typical psychotic symptoms that may occur in SFD. Part of defining...influences on the development of the individual's psychotic symptoms. When the psychotic features result from a physical disease, a reaction...
Psychosis
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...delusional disorder , and substance abuse. It is also the defining feature of the psychotic disorders (i.e., brief psychotic disorder , shared psychotic disorder , psychotic disorder due to a general medical condition, and substance...
Delusions
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions ...Delusions often are a symptom of serious psychotic (sy-KOT-ik) disorders, the most...inappropriate behavior. Typically, psychotic disorders affect people in late adolescence...touch. Not all delusions are caused by psychotic disorders, however. When a person has...
Hallucinations
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...present in any of the following mental disorders: psychotic disorders (including schizophrenia , schizoaffective...disorder , schizophreniform disorder , shared psychotic disorder , brief psychotic disorder , substance-induced psychotic disorder...
Schizophrenia
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...hallucinations . It is sometimes called a psychotic disorder or a psychosis . Description...cases, however, the patient's first psychotic episode is preceded by a prodromal...and other unusual behaviors. The psychotic episode itself is typically characterized...
Trifluoperazine
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...Trifluoperazine is a drug used to treat psychotic disorders, agitation, and dementia...effective agent in treating symptoms of psychotic behavior. When used for the treatment...initial dosage of trifluoperazine for psychotic adults is 2 to 5 mg two times each day...

Dictionary entries related to "psychotic"

Psychotic Transference
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...transference. The concept of psychotic transference is often used...working with patients presenting psychotic crises. Others use it with...features which are taken to be "psychotic aspects of the personality...transference in psychosis, that in psychotics the libido had been withdrawn...
Psychotic Part of the Personality
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis PSYCHOTIC PART OF THE PERSONALITY Clinical discoveries made in work with psychotic patients enabled Wilfred R. Bion to formulate...these in a classic paper "Differentiation of the psychotic from the non-psychotic personalities" (1957...
Psychotic Potential
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis PSYCHOTIC POTENTIAL The notion of psychotic potential was created by Piera Aulagnier, who contributed...every person, she explored the necessary conditions for the psychotic "solution" to be "chosen" by the subject. These conditions...
Psychotic Panic
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis PSYCHOTIC PANIC In the psychotic part of the personality, according to Wilfred Bion, anxiety changes into psychotic panic. Earlier, Melanie Klein (1935) had put forward the view that the first anxieties are psychotic in content and that in...
Psychotic/Neurotic
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis PSYCHOTIC/NEUROTIC The relationship between the...or between the neurotic sphere and the psychotic one, cannot be studied from a psychoanalytical...variations expressing a single underlying (psychotic) disease process. (Not to mention...
Psychotic Defenses
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis PSYCHOTIC DEFENSES Psychotic defenses are psychic...p. 184). The chief psychotic defenses in Freud's...projective identification in psychotic functioning. Such post...defenses are not confined to psychotics. Since Bion, they have...
psychotic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...xB7;ic / sīˈkätik / • adj. of, denoting, or suffering from a psychosis: a psychotic disturbance. • n. a person suffering from a psychosis. DERIVATIVES: psy·chot·i·...
Hallucinosis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...1965) to denote the mental state of the psychotic part of the personality. Psychotic panic is the experience, the O, which impels the personality to hallucinosis. Psychotic panic arises from a primitive disaster between...
Body Image
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...neurotic body image, and the primitive-psychotic body image, may be postulated on the...Conversely, in the model of the primitive-psychotic body image, there is no notion of skin...fluid as the nucleus of the primitive-psychotic body image. Thus, there is only a vague...
Bizarre Object
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...object existing in the world of the psychotic. By violent projection of unwanted psychic elements, the psychotic personality constructs its universe...described by Melanie Klein (1946). The psychotic personality uses a form of splitting...

Thesaurus entries related to "psychotic"

psychotic
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus psychotic • adjective  See mad sense 1.
insane
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...ill, mentally disordered, of unsound mind, certifiable; psychotic, schizophrenic; mad, deranged, demented, out of one...sane.   2. insane laughter synonyms : maniacal, psychotic, crazed, hysterical. antonym: normal.   3. an...
mental
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...psychiatric.   3. he's completely mental synonyms : mad, insane, deranged, disturbed, mentally unbalanced, mentally ill, mentally unstable, psychotic, lunatic; inf. crazy, out to lunch. antonyms: physical; sane.
disturbed
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English disturbed • adjective  emotionally disturbed synonyms : upset, troubled, unbalanced, disordered, maladjusted, neurotic, psychotic; inf. screwed up.
madman
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus madman , madwoman • noun  there was a madman on the loose synonyms : lunatic, maniac, psychotic, psychopath, sociopath; informal loony, nut, nutcase, head case, psycho, screwball, loon.
mad
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, distracted, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, psychotic, not quite right, mad as a hatter, mad as a March hare, foaming at the mouth; inf. crazy, out of one's mind, off...
lunatic
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...lunatic • noun  he drives like a lunatic synonyms : maniac, madman, madwoman, imbecile, psychopath, psychotic; fool, idiot; eccentric; informal loony, nut, nutcase, head case, psycho, moron, screwball, crackpot, fruitcake...
psychopathic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English psychopathic • adjective  psychopathic killer synonyms : severely mentally ill, disturbed, insane, mad, maniac, maniacal, deranged, sociopathic, psychotic.
psychopath
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...xA0;by definition, is every psychopath a danger to himself or others? synonyms : madman, madwoman, maniac, lunatic, psychotic, sociopath; informal loony, fruitcake, nutcase, nut, psycho, schizo, head case, sicko, screwball, crazy, kook...

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Non-psychotic uses for anti-psychotics.(Articles)
Magazine article from: Journal of Drugs in Dermatology; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...prescription of anti-psychotics for non-psychotic indications. This paper...with prescribing anti-psychotics for non-psychotic indications. The presented...of prescribing anti-psychotics for non-psychotic indications is not only...
First psychotic episodes among Israeli youth during military service
Magazine article from: Military Medicine; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...the study of the epidemiology of first psychotic episodes among Israeli youth. The aim...to describe characteristics of first psychotic episodes among a cohort of Israeli soldiers...females, who were hospitalized for a first psychotic episode were studied and compared with...
The moral psychotic: madness as excess.
Magazine article from: Critical Psychology; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...at all costs (the violent psychotic) or as a pitiful example...horribly wrong (the vegetable psychotic). (1) This paper argues that to represent psychotic experience as entirely debilitating and psychotics as imprisoned in a ghastly...
Criticism of anti-psychotic meds sound.(Commentary)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 4/1/2008; 700+ words ; ...false," anti-psychotic use is based on...told that anti-psychotics are required to...suggests anti-psychotic use may actually...evidence that anti-psychotics actually increase...medications without psychotic reactions. This...term use of anti-psychotics continues to be...
Prevalence of Psychotic Comorbidity in Combat-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Magazine article from: Military Medicine; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...explored the prevalence of comorbidity of psychotic symptoms among Croatian war veterans...traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the psychotic features among these patients, as well as the association between psychotic symptoms and personality disorders...
Look for rigid thinking in psychotic depression.(Adult Psychiatry)
Magazine article from: Clinical Psychiatry News; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...DIEGO -- To make a clinical diagnosis of psychotic depression, take a good history and...condition differs from other depressive or psychotic illnesses, Michael J. Gitlin, M...neuropsychological functioning in patients with psychotic or nonpsychotic depression, investigators...
Psychotic Symptoms in Combat-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Magazine article from: Military Medicine; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; The presence of psychotic symptoms in post-traumatic stress...Manual, we searched for and assessed psychotic symptoms in 91 males suffering from...and the group with "subthreshold" psychotic symptoms. Using the Harvard Trauma...
Familial Overlap Between Bipolar Disorder and Psychotic Symptoms in a Canadian Cohort
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Psychiatry; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...distinct familial subtype of BD with psychotic features. Methods: We recruited individuals...aggregation for BD, schizophrenia, and psychotic symptoms. We then compared BD probands...without first-degree relatives with psychotic symptoms on several clinical indicators...
Prevalence Of Psychotic Symptoms Greater In Urban Settings.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week; 8/13/2001; 700+ words ; ...com & NewsRx.net) -- Psychotic-like symptoms are more common among...years and correlated diagnosis of psychotic disorder, prevalence of delusions or hallucinations, and presence of psychotic or psychotic-like symptoms with...
On understanding projective identification in the treatment of psychotic states of mind: The publishing cohort of H. Rosenfeld, H. Segal and W. Bion (1946-1957)
Magazine article from: International Journal of Psychoanalysis; 2/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...positions in the understanding of a group of psychotic disorders. The author differentiates...of 'symbolic equations,' where the psychotic's attack on the breast left him incarcerated...symbolically represented. Segal in turn linked psychotic to normal, paranoid-schizoid to depressive...