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mental disorder
Also known as: insanity, madness, mental illness, psychiatric disorder
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mental disorder, any illness with significant psychological or behavioral manifestations that is associated with either a painful or distressing symptom or an impairment in one or more important areas of functioning. (Read Sigmund Freud’s 1926 Britannica essay on psychoanalysis.) Mental disorders, in particular their consequences and their treatment, are of more concern and receive more attention now than in the past. Mental disorders have become a more prominent subject of attention for several reasons. They have always been common, but, with the eradication or successful treatment of many of the serious physical illnesses that formerly afflicted humans, mental illness has ...(100 of 23131 words)