REFRACTORY MENTAL ILLNESS

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N., Pam M.S.
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Mental disability or disease which fails to respond to treatment, remaining problematic to cure.

REFRACTORY MENTAL ILLNESS: "Schizophrenia is a refractory mental illness."

Related Psychology Terms

  1. REFRACTORY
  2. PSEUDOHYPOPARATHYROIDISM
  3. SYMPTOMATIC TREATMENT
  4. SECONDARY PREVENTION
  5. CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS
  6. RELAPSE
  7. MENTAL SET
  8. RELAPSE PREVENTION
  9. FEEBLEMINDEDNESS
  10. EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT
Cite this page: N., Pam M.S., "REFRACTORY MENTAL ILLNESS," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 28, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/refractory-mental-illness/ (accessed January 30, 2020).
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