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psychosis

General term for a serious mental disorder in which the individual commonly loses contact with reality and may experience hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that do not exist) or delusions (fixed false beliefs). For example, in a paranoid psychosis, an individual may believe that others are plotting against him or her. A major type of psychosis is schizophrenia.



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Colman (7) established for Lear a diagnosis of brief reactive psychosis with a background of organic mental disorder, perhaps of a vascular origin, exemplified by the king's visual hallucinations and an intimation of a stroke just before Lear's death, since "he asks for help to undo one of his buttons.
Literary psychiatric observation and diagnosis through the ages: King ... by Truskinovsky, Alexander M. / Southern Medical Journal
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