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Mental disturbance   /mˈɛntəl dɪstˈərbəns/   Listen
Mental disturbance

noun
1.
(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness.  Synonyms: disturbance, folie, mental disorder, psychological disorder.






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"Mental disturbance" Quotes from Famous Books



... because it always expresses itself in the forms of real life, in the supposed experiences of men and women. These men and women are usually in a state of mental disturbance or conflict; indeed, they think much more than they act. But their thinking tends habitually to a practical result; and it keeps up our sense of their reality by clothing itself always in the most practical and picturesque language which thought can assume. It has been ...
— A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) • Mrs. Sutherland Orr



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