abnormal psychology


abnormal psychology

noun

Definition of ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY

: a branch of psychology concerned with mental and emotional disorders (as neuroses, psychoses, and mental retardation) and with certain incompletely understood normal phenomena (as dreams and hypnosis)

First Known Use of ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY

circa 1903

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