Sentence examples for mental pathology from inspiring English sources

Much of mental pathology could be a consequence of culture.

Shereshevsky strongly disputed Luria's implication that he suffered from a mental pathology.

The Silver Sword was a specialized instance of a general trend toward the interpretation for children of a postwar world of social incoherence, race and class conflict, urban poverty, and even mental pathology.

Steve Fuller, thankfully, wouldn't let it lie, and sent a response in which he bemoaned the fact that he couldn't offer an exotic mental pathology named after Grayling, but instead offered a recipe for an AC Grayling review: 1. Flip book's pages to find names of philosophers.

Darwin devoted a book to emotional expression in humans and animals, Freud based his theory of mental pathology on unsuccessful emotional repression, and the American psychologist William James weighed in with a body-based theory of emotion strikingly similar to Spinoza's own.

Crichton Browne was constructing a taxonomy of mental pathology based on the physiognomy of his patients and requested Darwin's help.

Yet while the regime under which those diagnosed with mental pathologies has changed immensely in the last half-century, the prognosis remains no better.

And on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a personality test whose scales measure a smorgasbord of mental pathologies, they scored the lowest of the three groups.

Burns has the honesty and integrity to admit that the major mental pathologies – schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression inter alia – cannot be defined in the same way as physical diseases, and he cleaves to the currently fashionable view of psychiatry as seeking to understand mental maladies through the tripartite lens of the social, the psychological and the biological.

Put bluntly: unable to effect anything like a cure in the severe mental pathologies, at an entirely unconscious and weirdly collective level psychiatry turned its attention to less marked psychic distress as a means of continuing to secure what sociologists term "professional closure".

This group of channels is of special interest as they are targets for pharmaceutical strategies in neurodegenerative diseases and mental pathologies.