The old description of mental disorders where symptoms are so marked and incapacitating that the person who is afflicted is out of touch with reality is known as a:
a. neurosis.
b. somatic condition.
c. psychosis.
d. breakdown.
c
Psychosis was the term traditionally used to describe
disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, in
which symptoms experienced were quite different from those
experienced by other people, and included delusions and
hallucinations.
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