Sentence examples for psychiatric term from inspiring English sources

The psychiatric term "paranoia" involves an extreme sense of persecution.

Rødland told me that he allowed the title of the book, a psychiatric term for memories that are made up or distorted, to guide him in his editing.

Folie a Deux – the psychiatric term for "shared psychosis" – would be an equally apt title for the C4 stalwart fantasy home Grand Designs, where couples egg each other on, collude, are complicit in each other's foolhardy approach to risk.

Woody Allen came close to saddling "Annie Hall" with the title "Anhedonia" because that psychiatric term, designating an inability to experience pleasure, neatly encapsulated the personality of the character he played.

BDD is a psychiatric term for a person who exaggerates a problem with their body to the point of delusion.

There is a psychiatric term called "narcissism," which is defined as "extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one's own talents and a craving for admiration, as characterizing a personality type". Perhaps our whole culture is suffering from this disorder?

In psychiatric terms, the experts said, he suffered from dissociative disorder.

"I don't think in psychiatric terms,'' he replied quickly, ending the discussion.

That is why mental health activists do not like psychiatric terms being used as abuse.

In comics, these and other psychiatric terms are casually interchanged; in psychiatry, they are drastically different.

"I don't think in psychiatric terms," he replied quickly, ending the discussion.