Term
Psychosis
A state in which someone may lose contact with reality: delusions, hallucinations, and confused thoughts may occur. It can accompany different disorders.
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, Elyn R. Saks
Explained in
- The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, Elyn R. Saks
- I Hate You—Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality, Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus
A state in which contact with reality is broken: delusions or hallucinations are possible. In psychiatry of the last century it was set against neurosis.