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abnormal psychology

–noun
the branch of psychology that deals with modes of behavior, mental phenomena, etc., that deviate markedly from the standards believed to characterize a well-adjusted personality.

Origin:
1900–05
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abnormal psychology  
n.  The study of mental and emotional disorders or maladaptive behaviors, or of mental phenomena such as dreams, hypnosis, and altered states or levels of consciousness.
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Main Entry: abnormal psychology
Function: noun
: a branch of psychology concerned with mental and emotional disorders (as neuroses, psychoses, and mental retardation) andwith certain incompletely understood normal phenomena (as dreams and hypnosis)
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abnormal psychology n.
Psychopathology.

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