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countable and uncountable, plural psychopathologies
(medicine, pathology) The study of the origin, development, diagnosis and treatment of mental and behavioural disorders.
(countable) A mental or behavioral disorder. quotations examples
Our fear and loathing for parasites is obviously adaptive. But this fear can itself mutate into a psychopathology.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 91