单词 | psychotic |
释义 | psychotic /saɪkɒtɪk; name saɪkɑːtɪk/ (medical医学) suffering from or connected with psychosis (= a serious mental illness in which thought and emotions lose connection with external reality) 精神错乱的;有精神病的◆a young mother with a psychotic illness患精神病的年轻母亲◆he suffered a psychotic episode (= an occasion on which he became psychotic) two years ago.他两年前得过精神病。ⓘ in informal english psychotic is sometimes used to describe anyone suffering from a mental illness, but in correct medical usage it only describes people who have difficulty relating to external reality. it contrasts with neurotic which describes people who are less seriously mentally ill and are still able to distinguish what is real from what is not. psychotic should not be confused with psychopathic: being psychotic does not make sb violent.在非正式用语中,psychotic 有时泛指患有精神疾病,但在正确的医学用语中,只用以描述难以与外界现实建立联系的人,这与 neurotic 形成对比 -neurotic 用以描述患有轻微神经错乱,但仍能区分现实与虚幻的人。psychotic 所描述的精神病人没有暴力行为,不应与 psychopathic 混淆。 psy·chot·ic /saɪ`kɑtɪk; saɪˈkɒtɪk/adjrelating to serious mental illness 严重精神病的:◇psychotic behaviour 严重精神病患者的行为 |
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