Definition of "psychopathology" [psychopathology]

• The study of the origin, development, and manifestations of mental or behavioral disorders. (noun)
• The manifestation of a mental or behavioral disorder. (noun)

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• "Romantic bestseller (it provoked E.T.A. Hoffmann, amongst others, towards an interest in psychopathology)."
• "This psychopathology is made all the more palpable because of the intense moral contradictions: while it has accomplished impressive things, including “Jewish democracy,” a place for some Jews to take refuge or to find pride, survival at all odds, and economic and technological development, Israel is a colonial settler society in origin as much as Zionism is also a variant of Jewish nationalism; it is both non-democratic in its exclusion of non-Jews and democratic for its Jewish majority."
• "Abnormal behaviour is called psychopathology and is classified on the basis of its symptoms, the classification is called a diagnosis."