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psychopathography

Syllables: psy·cho·pa·thog·ra·phyUK/ˌsaɪ̯kəʊ̯pəˈθɒɡɹəfi/US/ˌsaɪ̯koʊ̯pəˈθɑɡɹəfi/

psychopathography noun: a biography with respect to the subject's mental health.

Noun

psychopathography (plural psychopathographies)

  1. A biography with respect to the subject's mental health.
    • The way in which a psychopathography translates psychotic phenomena into linguistic structures determines, in turn, the exten to which such a borderline situation can be conveyed, and even experienced, in the reading process.1989, Evelyne Keitel, Reading Psychosis: Readers, Texts, and Psychoanalysis, Blackwell Publishers, →ISBN, page 85
    • The same rose-colored impulse has driven an Aspie wave of revisionist psychopathography, in which such diverse historical figures as Thomas Jefferson, Orson Welles, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Andy Warhol, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are supposed to have been residents of the...October 26, 2012; Wallace, Benjamin; "Autism Spectrum: Are You On It?"; New York Magazine

Forms of psychopathography

pluralpsychopathographies

Origin of psychopathography

From psycho- + pathography.

Words formed from psychopathography

  • psychopathographical

Questions about psychopathography

What does psychopathography mean?
Psychopathography means a biography with respect to the subject's mental health.
What part of speech is psychopathography?
Psychopathography is a noun.
How do you pronounce psychopathography?
Psychopathography is pronounced /ˌsaɪ̯kəʊ̯pəˈθɒɡɹəfi/ (UK).
What is the plural of psychopathography?
The plural of psychopathography is psychopathographies.

Words near psychopathography in the dictionary

  1. psychopathies
  2. psychopathist
  3. psychopathists
  4. psychopathogenic
  5. psychopathographies
  6. psychopathography
  7. psychopathologic
  8. psychopathological
  9. psychopathologically
  10. psychopathologies
  11. psychopathologist

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