Sentences with phrase «psychotic behavior»
"Psychotic behavior" refers to actions or thoughts that are irrational or disconnected from reality. It describes behaviors that may be strange or unusual, such as seeing or hearing things that aren't there, having false beliefs, or behaving in a way that doesn't make logical sense to others. Full definition
One Swedish research that studied the relationship between crime and steroid usage found that the latter may be linked with premeditated crimes — those involving preparation and advance planning, which doesn't quite belong to the standard range of psychotic behaviors.
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So it is really just defined as psychotic behavior, with no attachment to volitional choice on a person's part?
«Some of the most important applications have been to the training of retarded children, to the elimination of sexual disorders, to the large - scale amelioration of adult psychotic behavior, to the training of autistic children, to the re-education of delinquent adolescents... to marriage counseling, to weight control and to
And we also know how certain drugs (amphetamine, pcp, cocaine) can cause bizarre psychotic behavior.
You may think it all useless but if you think about it the field is highly interactive with law enforcement agencies out there, so if we have no information to study the various behavior types out there and what motivates people to become violent, the world will become deprived of psychologists which are important to helping law enforcement and hospitals identify people with such psychotic behaviors as this killer.
Jim complies, begins acting out, throws parties and everything seems work in his favor until Dean's psychotic behavior begin effecting Jim's personality, or is it Jim's effecting Dean?
These assessments may include the Adolescent Behavior Checklist (ABC), Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM - IV (ADIS - IV), Psychotic Behavior Rating Scale (PBRS), and the Chapman Psychosis Proneness Scales.
If you enjoyed the inert, slightly off - brand version of an Adam McKay - Will Ferrell comedy in the first film — and you're not the kind of person to be put off by Mel Gibson's documented history of psychotic behavior being played once again for cuddly laughs — chances are you won't mind taking an eggnog nap while it plays on TBS someday.
She started using drugs — brain damage, psychotic behavior, spiraling down socity's ladder until he wakes up under a bridge.
The high rates of anxiety and stress cause insomnia, which leads to increased depression and triggers more anxiety as well as manic and psychotic behavior.
When the leap year adds a 13th month to the calendar, a plague of insanity grips the planet, resulting in mass killings and psychotic behavior.
Youth referred primarily due to concerns related to suicidal, homicidal, or psychotic behaviors
Issues that ACS is not willing or able to deal with are psychotic behaviors.