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Definition of Psychotic person
1. Noun. A person afflicted with psychosis.
Specialized synonyms: Cataleptic, Paranoiac, Paranoid, Schizophrenic
Generic synonyms: Diseased Person, Sick Person, Sufferer
Derivative terms: Psychotic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychotic Person
Literary usage of Psychotic person
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"For instance, a psychotic person may have an auditory hallucination. He may "hear"
a voice which he thinks is a real voice, but which in reality comes from ..."
2. Collected Papers on the Psychology of Phantasy by Constance Ellen Long (1921)
"The new outlook upon life thus provided, goes far to carry him over the difficult
conquest of his neurosis. The neurotic or psychotic person shows in his ..."
3. The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases by William Alanson White, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1913)
"Poverty is one condition which determines the feasibility of caring for a psychotic
person at home, and conditions such as this may have been partly ..."
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