Sentence examples for psychoses from inspiring English sources
The word 'psychoses' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a mental disorder characterized by a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation. For example, "The patient was diagnosed with psychoses after exhibiting a number of symptoms including unpredictable behaviors and delusions."
Having studied the way Hindi films treat mental illness, Dr Bhugra finds that too often psychoses are sketchily portrayed: they frequently involve people "hearing voices".
Most psychoses are now believed to result from some structural or biochemical change in the brain.
Organic psychoses were believed to result from a physical defect of or damage to the brain.
Functional psychoses were believed to have no physical brain disease evident upon clinical examination.
Their chances for recovery are better than those of persons with psychoses.
These resemble (or mimic) the disturbances generated in spontaneously occurring psychoses; indeed some hallucinogens have been termed "psychotomimetic" or "psychotogenic" on this account.
These terms have been and still are widely used to distinguish between classes of mental disorders, though there are various mental illnesses, such as personality disorders, that cannot be classified as either psychoses or neuroses.
Psychoses are major mental illnesses that are characterized by severe symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, disturbances of the thinking process, and defects of judgment and insight.
Persons with psychoses exhibit a disturbance or disorganization of thought, emotion, and behaviour so profound that they are often unable to function in everyday life and may be incapacitated or disabled.
Such individuals are often unable to realize that their subjective perceptions and feelings do not correlate with objective reality, a phenomenon evinced by persons with psychoses who do not know or will not believe that they are ill despite the distress they feel and their obvious confusion concerning the outside world.
In contrast to people with psychoses, neurotic patients know or can be made to realize that they are ill, and they usually want to get well and return to a normal state.
