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  • noun Plural form of psychosis.

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Examples

  • I’ve been reading an article about these new nerve-specialists, and they claim that lots of ‘imaginary’ ailments, yes, and lots of real pain, too, are what they call psychoses, and they order a change in a woman’s way of living so she can get on a higher plane — —”

    Main Street 2004

  • I've been reading an article about these new nerve-specialists, and they claim that lots of ` imaginary 'ailments, yes, and lots of real pain, too, are what they call psychoses, and they order a change in a woman's way of living so she can get on a higher plane -- -- "

    Main Street 1920

  • I've been reading an article about these new nerve-specialists, and they claim that lots of 'imaginary' ailments, yes, and lots of real pain, too, are what they call psychoses, and they order a change in a woman's way of living so she can get on a higher plane ---- "

    Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Surgical treatment of certain psychoses), Turin, 1937.

    Egas Moniz - Biography 1964

  • Indeed, the largest place in this book will be given to the witness and the judge himself, since we want in fact, from the first to keep in mind the creation of material for our instruction; but the psychology of the criminal must also receive consideration whereever the issue is not concerned with his so-called psychoses, but with the validation of evidence.

    Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

  • In an endeavor to answer such questions wise books have been written detailing the "psychoses" of historic or religious leaders.

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

  • Unlike the usual psychoses, this one is developed from repressed urges, and reinforced by antiquated religious teachings.

    Think Progress » Cuccinelli: Homosexual ‘acts’ are a ‘detriment to our culture.’ 2010

  • To be sure, in the modern period these links seem to surface most palpably on the margins of literature—in anti-Semitic tales or published psychoses.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • By the time Henry began to show slow but sustained signs of improvement from late 2007 on, Jan and I had long experience of his psychoses.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • To wage this Third World (Image) War we have to move deeper into our own psychoses (AT 9) – to immerse ourselves in the image-stream to wrest the future from the perpetual present by an ‘elective psychopathy’ (Ballard 2008).

    Ballardian » Better Living through Psychopathology 2010

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