a nervous disorder characterized by a state of excessive uneasiness and apprehension, typically with compulsive behavior or panic attacks.
Example: With every mile they traveled closer to the ranch, her anxiety increased.
fr: Anxiété
Borderline personality disorder
noun
Borderline personality disorder (BPD), also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD), is a mental illness characterized by a long-term pattern of unstable relationships, a distorted sense of self, and strong emotional reactions.
fr: Trouble de la personnalité limite
Paraphilia
noun
is the experience of intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals.
Example: It's estimated that roughly one third of the population experiments with some form of paraphilia at least once in their lives, with 17 percent regularly engaging in their kinks.
fr: Paraphilie
Psychoanalysis
noun
A system of psychological theory and therapy which aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind by techniques such as dream interpretation and free association.
Example: Popper used it to show that Freud's psychoanalysis was non-science because any behavior could be explained by the theory and so there could be no refutation.
fr: Psychanalyse
Schizophrenia
noun
A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
Example: Mr has several of the positive features of schizophrenia- Delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thoughts.