psychopathology

English

Etymology

From psycho- +‎ pathology.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪkɒpəˈθɒlədʒɪ/

Noun

psychopathology (countable and uncountable, plural psychopathologies)

1. (medicine, pathology) The study of the origin, development, diagnosis and treatment of mental and behavioural disorders.
2. (countable) A mental or behavioral disorder.

   Hyponym: psychopathy

   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 91:

     Our fear and loathing for parasites is obviously adaptive. But this fear can itself mutate into a psychopathology.

Derived terms

• psychopathologic
• psychopathological

Translations

study of mental illness

• Catalan: psicopatologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 精神病理學／精神病理学 (jīngshénbìnglǐxué)

• Czech: psychopatologie f
• Dutch: psychopathologie (nl) f
• Estonian: psühhopatoloogia
• Finnish: psykopatologia (fi)
• French: psychopathologie (fr) f
• German: Psychopathologie (de) f
• Greek: ψυχοπαθολογία (el) f (psychopathología)
• Hungarian: pszichopatológia (hu)
• Polish: psychopatologia f
• Portuguese: psicopatologia (pt) f
• Romanian: psihopatologie (ro) f
• Russian: психопатоло́гия (ru) f (psixopatológija)
• Spanish: psicopatología (es) f
• Swedish: psykopatologi (sv) c
• Turkish: psikopatoloji (tr)

See also

• psychiatry