(abstract) A hypothesis which posits that the inappropriate processing and subsequent salience of irrelevant stimuli is implicated in the pathology and development of certain psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia.

The academic study of persons whose psychological characteristics deviate from the norm, as with neuroses, psychoses, and disorders

(medicine) A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.

Initialism of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. [(neurology, pathology, psychiatry, psychology) A developmental disorder in which a person has a persistent pattern of impulsiveness and inattention, with or without a component of hyperactivity.]

(informal) A person with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).

(especially in the plural) An identity or headmate of a person with dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder). A member of a system.

Synonym of body integrity identity disorder

(psychiatry) A person who has anhedonia.

Alternative form of antisocial personality disorder [(psychology) A personality disorder marked by antisocial behavior, a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood.]

Synonym of antischizophrenic

(psychology) A personality disorder marked by antisocial behavior, a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood.

Initialism of antisocial personality disorder. [(psychology) A personality disorder marked by antisocial behavior, a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood.]

An individual with antisocial personality disorder

(neurology, pathology, psychiatry, psychology) A developmental disorder in which a person has a persistent pattern of impulsiveness and inattention, with or without a component of hyperactivity.

Alternative form of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder [(neurology, pathology, psychiatry, psychology) A developmental disorder in which a person has a persistent pattern of impulsiveness and inattention, with or without a component of hyperactivity.]

(historical, clinical psychology, now medically obsolete) A diagnosis involving a pathological tendency to engage in self-centered fantasy thinking, historically considered a symptom of insanity and/or schizophrenia.

(psychology, pathology) A disorder involving any of a range of psychological conditions, all characterized by abnormal social interaction and communication, restricted interests, highly repetitive behaviour, and eccentricity.

(medicine) Any disorder characterised by symptoms associated with autism.

(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized by an irrational fear of rejection and anxiety in social situations.

(medicine) An eating disorder preventing the consumption of certain foods that appears in childhood and is generally overcome with age.

Initialism of avoidant personality disorder. [(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized by an irrational fear of rejection and anxiety in social situations.]

(psychiatry) A form of classification and descriptions of mental disorders or disabilities used in manuals such as the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

In cognitive therapy, a set of three mutually reinforcing elements of a depressed person's belief system: automatic, spontaneous and seemingly uncontrollable negative thoughts about (i) oneself, (ii) the world or environment, and (iii) the future.

Relating to or having bipolar disorder.

(clinical psychology, psychiatry) A psychiatric diagnostic category, previously called manic depression, characterised by mood swings between great energy (mania) and clinical depression.

(medicine) Ellipsis of bipolar I disorder.

(medicine) Ellipsis of bipolar II disorder.

Of or relating to Paul Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939), Swiss psychiatrist who studied mental illness and coined the term schizophrenia.

(psychology) A psychological disorder characterized by the desire to have one or more healthy limbs amputated.

Exhibiting borderline personality disorder.

(psychiatry, modern interpretation) A disorder characterized by extreme black and white thinking and instability in self-image and emotions.

(informal) An individual who has borderline personality disorder.

(psychiatry) Borderline personality disorder.

Initialism of battered person syndrome. [(law) A legal defense according to which a murderer had no choice but to kill their violent partner in response to cumulative abuse rather than a single provocation.]

An enduring psychological problem linked not to specific symptoms but to pervasive internal conflicts or derailments of normal childhood development.

A mental illness affecting an individual's character.

(psychiatry) A rare condition characterized by deterioration of language, social function, and motor skills in a child after normal development for the child's first three years.

(psychology, psychiatry) A word or phrase linked only by sound and not by meaning, characteristic of some mental disorders.

(psychology) Any of a group of personality disorders characterized by dramatic, overly emotional or unpredictable thinking or behavior, which includes antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the two subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by Lynn E. Alden and Martha J. Capreol in 1993. Characterised by an inability to experience and express positive emotion towards others.

(military, psychiatry) Acute behavioral disorganization as a direct result of the trauma of war.

A psychic symptom of an injured claimant where he practices a rejectionist attitude towards gainful activity not because his sufferings induced by the injury have transformed into somatic complaints but due to character faults or perverse legal understanding and on this basis demands that the ensuing financial losses be compensated by the tortfeasor.

(psychoanalysis) An abnormal mental condition caused by repressed emotions.

A psychological disorder of childhood or adolescence, characterized by persistent antisocial behaviours.

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of passive-aggressive personality disorder

(medicine, psychiatry) In a phase of mental activity in which one begins to recognize and acknowledge the maladaptiveness of someone's behavior (such as own's own, or that of a family member or friend); usually with reference to substance use.

(psychiatry) A rare mental disorder in which the patient believes he or she is dead (figuratively or literally), does not exist, or has lost parts of the body.

bipolar disorder

A person with cyclophrenia.

Related to, or affected by cyclothymia.

A person who has cyclothymia.

A mental disorder characterized by isolated delusions without any accompanying symptoms like hallucinations, thought disorder or flat affect.

(psychiatry) a delusional disorder in which affected individuals experience uncontrolled hallucination in which they are infested with parasites, insects, or bugs

(dated, psychiatry) schizophrenia

(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized by a dependence on others to take care of oneself and one's life.

(psychiatry) A mental disorder in which an individual has persistent or recurrent feelings of depersonalization or derealization.

(psychiatry) Initialism of dissociative identity disorder. [(psychiatry) A mental disorder characterized by the presence of two or more personality states or distinct identities that repeatedly take control of a person's behavior.]

(pathology) A form of schizophrenia marked by disorganized behavior and speech as well as inappropriate emotional responses or affect.

causing dissociation

Any of several mental disorders that affect consciousness.

(psychiatry) A mental disorder characterized by the presence of two or more personality states or distinct identities that repeatedly take control of a person's behavior.

(medicine) Initialism of dependent personality disorder. [(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized by a dependence on others to take care of oneself and one's life.]

(medicine) Initialism of depersonalization-derealization disorder. [(psychiatry) A mental disorder in which an individual has persistent or recurrent feelings of depersonalization or derealization.]

Alternative form of DPD (“depressive personality disorder”)

(psychology) The 2013 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.

(psychology) The 1952 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.

(psychology) The 1968 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.

(psychology) The 1980 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.

(psychology) The 1987 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.

(psychology) The 1994 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.

(psychology) The 2000 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.

mental illness

A person diagnosed with dysthymia, or dysthymic depression.

Synonym of borderline personality disorder

(historical, psychiatry) One of the four subtypes of sadistic personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

Initialism of emotionally unstable personality disorder. [Synonym of borderline personality disorder]

Alternative spelling of exploitable-avoidant [(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by Lynn E. Alden and Martha J. Capreol in 1993. Characterised by an inability to express anger towards others or to resist coercion from others. May be at risk for abuse by others.]

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by Lynn E. Alden and Martha J. Capreol in 1993. Characterised by an inability to express anger towards others or to resist coercion from others. May be at risk for abuse by others.

(historical, psychiatry) One of the four subtypes of sadistic personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of borderline personality disorder.

(psychiatry) A rare syndrome in which a symptom of psychosis (particularly a paranoid or delusional belief) is transmitted from one person to another.

(psychiatry) A form of shared psychotic disorder in which three individuals have the same or similar delusional beliefs, usually by transference.

Fregoli delusion

A rare psychiatric disorder characterized by reversible amnesia for personal identity, including the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality.

A rare stress-induced dissociative disorder characterized by giving nonsensical answers to questions.

(psychology) In dissociative identity disorder, an aspect of the personality that controls access to the various identities.

A person who is hallucinating.

(psychiatry) A ICD-10 personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of selfish, irresponsible and hedonistic behavior.

An alternate personality in someone with dissociative identity disorder.

(clinical psychology) A form of schizophrenia characterised by inappropriate behaviour and emotional responses.

Initialism of histrionic personality disorder. [(psychology) A personality disorder characterized largely by exaggerated emotions, and inappropriate attention-seeking and seductive behavior typically caused by undue amounts of trauma and related stress during childhood.]

Of or pertaining to hyperchaos

(pathology) The state of the brain, in schizophrenia or epileptic seizure, in which an excessive number of connections are made between neurons.

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of paranoid personality disorder

(medicine) A mental disorder characterized by excessive fear of or preoccupation with a serious illness, despite medical testing and reassurance to the contrary.

hypochondriasis

reduced activation in the frontal (and especially prefrontal) cortex; One of the common neurological correlates for schizophrenics and schizoid.

(psychology) The 1949 revision of the International Classification of Diseases, published by WHO.

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the two subtypes of schizotypal personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of schizoid personality disorder, depressive personality disorder and dependent personality disorder

A delusional syndrome, related to agnosia, in which the patient believes he/she can see others changing from one person into another.

Alternative spelling of Jekyll/Hyde syndrome [(informal, psychology) Synonym of dissociative identity disorder]

(informal, psychology) Synonym of dissociative identity disorder

(clinical psychology, psychiatry, dated) A psychiatric diagnostic category, now called bipolar disorder, characterised by mood swings between great energy (manic) and clinical depression.

(psychiatry) A behavioral or mental pattern that may cause suffering or a poor ability to function in life.

(countable, psychiatry) A mental disorder.

A patient at a mental illness institution.

A single individual who has multiple personalities.

A dissociative disorder in which several distinct identities or personality states alternate in controlling the sufferer's consciousness and behaviour

(psychology, informal, dated) Dissociative identity disorder.

A psychiatric disorder in which a person feigns illness or psychological trauma in order to garner attention or sympathy.

a psychological disorder in which a caregiver and especially a parent induces the symptoms of a disease or injury in their child, falsifies the child's medical history, or tampers with the child's diagnostic specimens in order to create a situation that typically requires medical attention

Alternative form of Münchausen syndrome [A psychiatric disorder in which a person feigns illness or psychological trauma in order to garner attention or sympathy.]

(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized largely by an overinflated sense of self-importance typically caused by unbalanced parental valuation during childhood.

(psychology) A disputed class of behavioural problems in modern children, ascribed to the fact that they spend little time outdoors.

Initialism of nature-deficit disorder. [(psychology) A disputed class of behavioural problems in modern children, ascribed to the fact that they spend little time outdoors.]

Initialism of narcissistic personality disorder. [(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized largely by an overinflated sense of self-importance typically caused by unbalanced parental valuation during childhood.]

(medicine, psychology) A mental disorder characterized by an obsessive compulsion to repeatedly perform trivial or meaningless actions.

(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized by an extreme pattern of concern with orderliness, perfectionism, excessive attention to details, mental and interpersonal control

Initialism of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. [(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized by an extreme pattern of concern with orderliness, perfectionism, excessive attention to details, mental and interpersonal control]

Initialism of oppositional defiant disorder. [A childhood disorder characterized by an ongoing pattern of anger-guided disobedience, hostility, and defiant behavior toward authority figures.]

Exhibiting, or relating to, oligophrenia.

Relating to oneirophrenia.

A childhood disorder characterized by an ongoing pattern of anger-guided disobedience, hostility, and defiant behavior toward authority figures.

(psychiatry) Initialism of other specified dissociative disorder. [(psychiatry) A mental health diagnosis which fits the DSM-5 criteria for a dissociative disorder, but does not meet criteria for identified subtypes.]

(psychiatry) A mental health diagnosis which fits the DSM-5 criteria for a dissociative disorder, but does not meet criteria for identified subtypes.

(fandom slang) Initialism of post-Avatar depression syndrome (“a feeling of depression brought upon by watching the 2009 epic science fiction film Avatar or its sequels, as a result of not being able to experience the movie's world in real life”).

Initialism of passive-aggressive personality disorder. [(psychiatry) A proposed personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of negativistic attitudes and passive resistance to demands for adequate performance in social and occupational situations.]

(psychiatry) A mental disorder characterized by paranoia and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others.

(psychiatry) A form of schizophrenia that is accompanied by delusions, either of persecution, grandeur or jealousy.

(psychiatry) Any of a group of psychotic illnesses involving delusions, distinct from paranoia and schizophrenia.

Having or pertaining to paraphrenia.

Borderline schizophrenia.

Related to paraschizophrenia

An alleged transient psychological disorder encountered by some people visiting or vacationing in Paris, France, resulting from shock at their discovery that Paris is not what they had expected it to be.

Initialism of parental alienation syndrome. [A supposed disturbance in which children are obsessively preoccupied with depreciation and/or criticism of a parent.]

(psychiatry) A proposed personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of negativistic attitudes and passive resistance to demands for adequate performance in social and occupational situations.

(medicine, dated) moral insanity; psychopathy

(medicine) Initialism of personality disorder. [(psychiatry) Any of a class of mental disorders characterized by ongoing rigid patterns of thought and action.]

(psychology) Initialism of pervasive developmental disorder. [(psychiatry) Any of a group of five disorders characterized by delays in the development of multiple basic functions including socialization and communication. They are: Asperger syndrome, autism, childhood disintegrative disorder, Rett syndrome, and PDD-NOS.]

(psychology) Initialism of pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified.

(psychiatry) Any of a class of mental disorders characterized by ongoing rigid patterns of thought and action.

Synonym of pervasive refusal syndrome

(psychiatry) Any of a group of five disorders characterized by delays in the development of multiple basic functions including socialization and communication. They are: Asperger syndrome, autism, childhood disintegrative disorder, Rett syndrome, and PDD-NOS.

A mental disorder where a child refuses to eat, drink, talk, walk, and so on, and is highly resistant to treatment.

(psychiatry) Schizophrenia in individuals with premorbid cognitive impairment.

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of dependent personality disorder

(archaic) mental illness

(archaic) mental illness

Designating a form of dissociative identity disorder in which the patient has a very large number of alters.

Following schizophrenia.

Initialism of paranoid personality disorder. [(psychiatry) A mental disorder characterized by paranoia and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others.]

A person who has presbyophrenia.

Synonym of Ganser syndrome

Relating to, or exhibiting, prosopagnosia.

Initialism of pervasive refusal syndrome. [A mental disorder where a child refuses to eat, drink, talk, walk, and so on, and is highly resistant to treatment.]

Apparently bipolar

pseudoblepsis

(medicine) The signs and symptoms of depression from a non-depressive, often organic aetiology.

pseudoscientific diagnosis

Of, pertaining to, or producing pseudohallucination

(medicine) Resembling mania.

A mild form of hypermentalizing

(psychiatry) A postulated mental disorder categorized by the presence of two or more symptoms of mental illness such as anxiety, hysteria, and phobic or obsessive-compulsive neuroses.

(medicine) Organic brain disease, which features dementia presenting in a manner that mimics cognitive impairment secondary to a primary psychiatric disorder.

(psychiatry) A feigned psychopathy

Any of various conditions resembling schizophrenia in their symptoms, but not necessarily schizophrenic in origin.

Of or relating to pseudoschizophrenia.

(dated) A psychological disorder characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety.

(dated) A person who has a psychiatric disorder.

(derogatory, slang) A person who is psychotic or otherwise insane.

A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder.

Exhibiting the behaviors and personality traits of a psychopath.

(countable) A mental or behavioral disorder.

A personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, exploitation, heedlessness, arrogance, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, and lack of empathy and remorse. Violent and criminal offenses may be indicative of this disorder.

(psychology) A severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.

A psychological or psychiatric syndrome

A person affected by psychosis.

A personality pattern typified by aggressiveness and interpersonal hostility.

Apparently, but not actually, psychotic; suggesting psychosis.

(pediatrics, psychology) A rare but serious condition in which an infant or young child fails to establish healthy attachments with parents or caregivers

(psychology) Initialism of social anxiety disorder. [(clinical psychology, psychiatry) The most common anxiety disorder, characterized by intense fear in one or more social situations, causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some parts of daily life. Symptoms of fear, distress, anxiety, avoidance of social situations, and impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of daily life, are persistent, typically lasting for a minimum of at least 6 months, and are not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance or another medical condition.]

(historical, psychiatry) A disorder characterized by cruel, aggressive, demeaning, and manipulative behavior towards others.

(slang) schizophrenic

(slang) Schizophrenic.

A person who has a schizoaffective disorder.

(psychiatry) A mental disorder in which symptoms of schizophrenia and an affective disorder, such as depression or bipolar disorder, occur concurrently.

Synonym of schizoaffectivity

The quality of being schizoaffective.

A form of psychoanalysis addressing perceived shortcomings and oversimplifications in traditional psychoanalysis.

schizogenous

Causing schizophrenia.

Of, pertaining to, or formed by schizogeny.

(archaic) schizophrenic

(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized by social withdrawal, flat affect, very few, if any, close friends or personal relationships, excessive preoccupation with fantasy and insensitivity to prevailing social norms and conventions.

Synonym of schizoid

(psychology) schizoid personality disorder

Synonym of bipolar disorder

(psychiatry) Word salad: a nonsensical, often repetitious assemblage of words, typical of mental disorders such as schizophrenia.

(rare) One who exhibits schizophasia.

The condition of sound or sounds separate from their sources.

Alternative form of schizophonia [The condition of sound or sounds separate from their sources.]

(dated) A schizophrenic individual.

The form of word salad uttered by schizophrenics.

Alternative spelling of schizophrenialike [(psychiatry) Resembling or characteristic of schizophrenia.]

An individual with schizophrenia.

(psychiatry) Resembling or characteristic of schizophrenia.

(of a person) Afflicted with schizophrenia; having difficulty with perception of reality.

(pathology) Resembling or having some symptoms of schizophrenia.

(psychiatry) Schizophrenogenesis.

Alternative form of schizophrenogenic [Of or relating to schizophrenogenesis; causing schizophrenia.]

The development of schizophrenia.

Of or relating to schizophrenogenesis; causing schizophrenia.

(Internet slang) A meme or similar humorous material posted online which makes light of or plays the role of having schizophrenia, often by describing symptoms of the condition or by writing as if they were mentally unstable.

(rare) Exhibiting pathologically divergent sexual behaviour, or sexual behaviour (imagined to be) associated with schizophrenia.

(pathology) A predisposition to schizophrenia

(psychiatry) A temperament characterised by elements of schizophrenia or schizoid personality disorder, while still within the bounds of normality.

An individual exhibiting schizothymia.

A person exhibiting schizothymia.

schizothymic

(psychiatry) Pertaining to or displaying mild signs of schizophrenia; pertaining to or having schizotypy

(psychiatry) A personality affected by schizotypal personality disorder.

(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized by an extreme discomfort in social situations and perceptual distortions.

(psychiatry) schizotypal (displaying symptoms or signs similar to but less severe than schizophrenia)

schizotypal

(psychology) A continuum of personality characteristics and experiences, ranging from normal dissociative, imaginative states, to the more extreme end of psychosis (schizophrenia in particular).

(slang, offensive) schizoid, schizophrenic

Of or relating to Kurt Schneider (1887–1967), German psychiatrist, or the psychotic symptoms he listed as being particularly characteristic of schizophrenia.

(medicine) Abbreviation of schizophrenia. [(pathology) A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions.]

Initialism of self-defeating personality disorder. [(psychiatry) A proposed personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of self-defeating behavior, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.]

(psychiatry) A proposed personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of self-defeating behavior, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of depressive personality disorder

A psychological condition in which an individual experiences excessive anxiety regarding separation from home or from people to whom the individual has a strong emotional attachment.

(historical, medicine) A diagnostic category used in Soviet Russia to describe a supposedly slowly progressive form of schizophrenia affecting minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic individuals.

(clinical psychology, psychiatry) The most common anxiety disorder, characterized by intense fear in one or more social situations, causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some parts of daily life. Symptoms of fear, distress, anxiety, avoidance of social situations, and impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of daily life, are persistent, typically lasting for a minimum of at least 6 months, and are not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance or another medical condition.

A person with an antisocial personality disorder.

(rare) A sociopath.

(psychiatry) The property of being a sociopath—a person showing antisocial behavior as part of psychiatric pathology.

(historical, psychiatry) One of the four subtypes of sadistic personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of avoidant personality disorder

(psychology, slang) dissociative identity disorder.

Initialism of schizotypal personality disorder. [(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized by an extreme discomfort in social situations and perceptual distortions.]

Of or relating to a milder form of affective disorder.

One of the personalities of a person with multiple personality.

Not quite schizophrenic; approaching schizophrenia.

(psychiatry) A set of alters, or the multiple (“the individual with multiple personalities due to, for example, a dissociative personality disorder”) who contains them.

Initialism of schizoid personality disorder. [(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized by social withdrawal, flat affect, very few, if any, close friends or personal relationships, excessive preoccupation with fantasy and insensitivity to prevailing social norms and conventions.]

A neurological condition that alters the perception of time.

(psychiatry) The phenomenon, in schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders, where a person's speech is suddenly interrupted by silences.

(abnormal psychology) Non-verbal broadcasting of one's inner thoughts to others. Belief in thought broadcasting is a symptom of various mental disorders, especially schizophrenia.

A form of auditory hallucination, associated with schizophrenia, in which the patient hears his/her thoughts spoken aloud.

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the two subtypes of schizotypal personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of avoidant personality disorder and passive-aggressive personality disorder

Of or relating to Tourette syndrome.

(historical, psychiatry) One of the four subtypes of sadistic personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of passive-aggressive personality disorder

(psychology) A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality.

(psychiatry) A nonsensical assemblage of words, typical of schizophrenia, Wernicke's aphasia, and some other mental disorders.