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A psychosis is a human behavioral state characterized by delusions, hallucinations, incoherent communication, loosening of association between ideas, markedpoverty of content of thought, markedly illogical thinking, or behavior that is grossly disorganized or catatonic. The term is unsatisfactory for scientific purposes.
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American Psychiatric Association (1980): Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd ed.
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Quarton, G.C. (1989). Psychosis. In: Abnormal States of Brain and Mind. Readings from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience . Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6768-8_44
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