This term encompasses those serious mental
disorders,
including schizophrenia, major depression, alcohol withdrawal
delirium, and others where the individual "loses touch with reality." Hallucinations
and delusions are generally considered psychotic symptoms. The individual experiencing them may be described as
psychotic.
Also: neurosis, "no!",
paranoia, paranoid, psychotic break, psychoses
Books and Other
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- Altered States
DVD William Hurt 1980
The film is notable for the effort to depict
psychedelic
hallucinations resulting from drugs
and sensory deprivation.
- A
Beautiful Mind
DVD Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer
2002
- Chayefsky, Paddy
Altered States: A Novel (Hardcover - May 1978)
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The Snake Pit
DVD Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, and Celeste Holm 1948
- Tamminga, Carol A. Deconstructing Psychosis: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V
2009
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Through a Glass Darkly
Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, and Lars Passgård 1961
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Ward, Mary Jane Snake Pit
library binding 1996
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