In Gesualdo, that fantastic character out of a Webster melodrama, psychological disintegration had exaggerated, had pushed to the extreme limit, a tendency inherent in modal as opposed to fully tonal music.

After a few months of cognitive dissonance and psychological disintegration, the Nervous return finally called it quits in April 2006.

He left before Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled, claiming he was "at an advanced stage of psychological disintegration" and that the pressure on his family was too much to bear.

But H. P. Lovecraft, horrified by Crane's appearance, wrote: "At the very crest of fame he is on the verge of psychological, physical and financial disintegration."

Torre's meteoric rise and psychological disintegration at a young age strikingly recall fellow New Orleans chess player Paul Morphy.

He does generate a fair measure of suspense, however, from the way in which each new development illuminates - or, sometimes, precipitates - Morris's moral and psychological disintegration.

In 1972, he dramatized a woman's psychological disintegration in "Images," starring Susannah York.

We perform 'the crucial work of rupture, of social and psychological disintegration, that may be necessary to permit new forms of life to come into being.

"The Stillest Day" adds a strong religious undertone to the theme of psychological disintegration.

In this collection, only "Secret Window, Secret Garden," because it is about an adult's psychological disintegration, fails to achieve that effect.