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Ancient Greek ψῡχή (psūkhḗ)

Ancient Greek ψῡχο- (psūkho-)der.

English psycho-

Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der.

Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos)

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos

Proto-Hellenic *lógos

Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.

Latin -logialbor.

French -logie

French pathologiebor.

English pathology

English psychopathology

psychopathology (countable and uncountable, plural psychopathologies)

(medicine, pathology) The study of the origin, development, diagnosis and treatment of mental and behavioural disorders.
(countable) A mental or behavioral disorder.
Hyponym: psychopathy
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 91:
  Our fear and loathing for parasites is obviously adaptive. But this fear can itself mutate into a psychopathology.
- 2019 October, Wan-jun Guo, Yu-jie Tao, Xiao-jing Li, Xia Lin, Ya-jing Meng, Xia Yang, et al., “Internet addiction severity and risk for psychopathology, serious mental illness, and suicidalities: a cross-sectional study”, in The Lancet‎^[1], volume 394:
  The prevalence and risks of the four psychopathologies and their comorbidities, serious mental illness, and suicidalities increased significantly with internet addiction severity (p values from 0·0003 to <0·0001), and most increments in risk were large (ORs increasing more than four times, except for suicidalities) for students with moderate and severe internet addiction.

study of mental illness