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Definition of Emotional disorder
1. Noun. Any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant.
Generic synonyms: Disturbance, Folie, Mental Disorder, Mental Disturbance, Psychological Disorder
Specialized synonyms: Clinical Depression, Depression, Depressive Disorder, Mania, Manic Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Manic Depression, Manic Depressive Illness, Manic-depressive Psychosis
Medical Definition of Emotional disorder
1. See: mental illness, behaviour disorder. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emotional Disorder
Literary usage of Emotional disorder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Insanity by New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum (1906)
"1906] JW WHERRY having both an intellectual and an emotional disorder at the same
moment, without them bearing any intimate relation to each other, ..."
2. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1879)
"The physician looks for other conditions of emotional disorder, ... Other conditions
associated with emotional disorder are due to toxic factors in relation ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Medico-Psychological Association Annual Meeting by American Medico-Psychological Association (1905)
"having both an intellectual and an emotional disorder at the same moment, without
them bearing any intimate relation to each other, and without either being ..."
4. Contracting for Managed Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services: A Guide ...by Stephen Moss by Stephen Moss (2000)
"... have had a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder of sufficient
duration to meet diagnostic criteria specified within DSM-III-R, ..."
5. Mental Health, United States, 1998 edited by Ronald W Manderscheid, Marilyn J Henderson (1999)
"Concepts and Definitions Definition of Mental/emotional disorder The presence of
mental/emotional problems was ascertained by the NHIS-D through a set of ..."
6. Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice: Federal Agencies Could Play a Stronger by Cornelia M. Ashby, Diana Petrowski, Kathleen D. White (2003)
"Where a parent voluntarily places a child with an emotional disorder with the
Department of Human services for the purpose of accessing an out-of- home ..."
7. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"On the whole the attacks of emotional disorder that characterize cyclothymia and
are expressed in its Greek designation are self- limited in their course ..."
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