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emotional_disturbance
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[ noun ] (psychiatry) any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant
Used in print (E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)In_view_of the important role which emotional_disturbances play in the genesis of neurotic and psychotic disorders and the parallelism observed between autonomic states and psychological behavior in several instances , it is further suggested that a hypothalamic imbalance may play an important role in initiating mental changes . (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)He has_to cope_with frustration and other emotional_disturbance and anomie . Related terms |
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