Obsolete Terms for Mental Disorders
22 entries in the Obsolete Terms for Mental Disorders compendium.
Abraham-menTudor-Stuart beggars feigning madness from Bedlam.AcediaAn ancient term for listlessness revived in modern literature.Brain feverObsolete diagnosis of brain inflammation with emotional triggers.DromomaniaHistorical diagnosis of uncontrollable wandering or travel urge.Educationally subnormalUK term for children with intellectual disabilities, used from 1944 to 1981.Ego-dystonic sexual orientationA diagnosis that pathologized distress over one's sexual orientation.Feeble-mindedA historical term for high-grade mental deficiency used in eugenics.Homosexuality as a diseaseFormer psychiatric classification of same-sex attraction as a disorder.Female hysteriaA historical diagnosis no longer recognized by modern medicine.IdiotObsolete term for profound intellectual disability, now considered offensive.ImbecileObsolete psychiatric term for moderate to severe intellectual disability.MonomaniaA 19th-century diagnosis of partial insanity focused on a single obsession.Moral insanityA 19th-century diagnosis of emotional disorder without intellectual defect.Moron (psychology)Obsolete term for mild intellectual disability, coined in 1910.NeurastheniaA once-common diagnosis of nervous exhaustion, now deprecated.NewyorkitisA satirical 1901 diagnosis of Manhattan's urban ills.OneirophreniaA dream-like psychotic state now rarely diagnosed.Psychedelic syndromeProposed syndrome from chronic LSD use, first described in 1969.Railway spineA 19th-century diagnosis for post-accident symptoms, also called Erichsen's disease.Retard (pejorative)A once-medical term now widely considered an ableist slur.Unitary psychosis19th-century German doctrine that all psychoses were one disease.Zero strokeAn alleged disorder from Weimar hyperinflation involving compulsive zero-writing.
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