mental derangement

  • 41strangeness — Synonyms and related words: Kern, NMR, aberration, abnormality, absurdity, alienation, alpha particle, anomaly, antibaryon, anticness, antilepton, antimeson, atomic nucleus, atomic particle, baryon, beta particle, bizarreness, bizarrerie, brain… …

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  • 42unbalance — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, alienation, asymmetry, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, contrariety, craze, craziness, daftness, dement, dementedness, dementia, derange, derangement, difference, disbalance,… …

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  • 43Moral insanity — (Latin mania sine delirio; French folie raisonnante or folie lucide raisonnante, monomanie affective; German Moralisches Irresein[1]) is a medical diagnosis first described by the French humanitarian and psychiatrist Philippe Pinel in 1806.[2]… …

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  • 44insanity — Synonyms and related words: aberration, absurdity, alienation, amentia, arrested development, asininity, backwardness, battiness, blithering idiocy, brain disease, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crack up, crackpottedness, crankiness,… …

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  • 45aberration — I (abnormality) noun alienation, declension, deflection, departure, derailment, deviation, digression, discrepancy, dislocation, disorientation, displacement, divergence, divergency, diversion, irregularity, lapse, misdirection, refraction,… …

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  • 46madness — Insanity or mental derangement, especially in a form resulting in violent acts or other manifestation of acute derangement of the mind. A word which was apparently employed by the earlier writers on the subject of insanity to include almost every …

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  • 47Clarence Richeson — Clarence Virgil Thompson Richeson The Boston YMCA, the site of the murder of Avis Linnel for which Richeson was executed, in May 1912. Born February 15, 1876(1876 02 15) Amherst, VA …

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  • 48Unitary Psychosis —    (from 1822)    (See also Psychosis: Emergence.)    At the biological level, the concept probably originates with Parisian physician Antoine Laurent Jessé Bayle (1799–1858) in his work on what was recognized much later as cerebral syphilis (it… …

    Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

  • 49Tobermore — Infobox UK place official name= Tobermore irish name= An Tóbar Mór scots name= local name= static static image caption= The village centre map type= Northern Ireland latitude= 54.8 longitude= 6.7 belfast distance= unitary northern ireland=… …

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  • 50John Thomas Perceval — John Thomas Perceval, born 1803, was a British pioneer whose work for the mental health advocacy movement led to lasting improvements in mental health care. =Early life=John Thomas Perceval was born in February 1803, the fifth son of 12 children …

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