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Mental Pathology — Mental Pathology † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Mental Pathology This subject will be considered under the following headings: I. Localization of Mental Faculties II. Causes of Mental Disturbances III. Varieties of Insanity… … Catholic encyclopedia
Blindness — This article is about the visual condition. For other uses, see Blindness (disambiguation). Blindness Classification and external resources A white cane, the international symbol of blindness ICD … Wikipedia
mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… … Universalium
Mental retardation with optic atrophy, deafness & seizures — A disorder first reported in 1999 by Gustavson and colleagues as a newly recognized X linked mental retardation syndrome. In the family they studied there were 7 male children in 2 generations with the syndrome. The affected males were… … Medical dictionary
blindness — noun a) The condition of being blind; unable to see. b) Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness. Syn: ablepsy, cecity … Wiktionary
Inattentional blindness — Inattentional blindness, also known as perceptual blindness, is when a person fails to notice some stimulus that is in plain sight. This stimulus is usually unexpected but fully visible. This typically happens because we are overloaded with… … Wikipedia
Mind-blindness — can be described as an inability to develop an awareness of what is in the mind of another human. It is not necessarily caused by an inability to imagine an answer, but is often due to not being able to gather enough information to work out which … Wikipedia
hysterical blindness — Also known as conversive blindness. The term hysterical blindness is indebted to the term hysteria, which is in turn indebted to the Greek noun hustera (uterus). The term hysteria reflects the ancient conviction that some types of mental… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
Psychical blindness — Psychic Psy chic, Psychical Psy chic*al, a. [L. psychicus, Gr. ?, fr. psychh the soul, mind; cf. ? to blow: cf. F. psychique.] 1. Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man. [1913 Webster] Note: This term was formerly… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Dalibor Vesely — was born in Prague, Czech Republic in 1934. He studied engineering, architecture, art history and philosophy in Prague and in Munich and obtained his PhD from Charles University in Prague. He studied with Hans Georg Gadamer, with whom he kept a… … Wikipedia
