1. The study of mental disorders, their causes, symptoms, and treatment.
Usage: academic/clinical field
2. Mental illness or psychological disorder itself; abnormal mental or behavioral patterns.
Usage: clinical usage

Examples

• She earned her doctorate in psychopathology and now specializes in anxiety disorders.
• The textbook covers the psychopathology of depression, including its biological and environmental factors.
• Understanding psychopathology helps clinicians diagnose and treat their patients more effectively.
• His research focuses on the psychopathology underlying schizophrenia.
• The course examines various forms of psychopathology across the lifespan.
• Psychopathology is not simply the absence of happiness; it involves significant distress or dysfunction.