The only psychological malady that could have destroyed Susan's career as a real-estate agent more effectively than agoraphobia was uncontrollable pyromania.

A long article investigates "attachment disorder," a psychological malady that affects neglected east European toddlers adopted by Americans.

The city, accommodating of most relatively harmless psychological maladies, fortunately satisfies a neurotic's needs with endless options, some frivolous, others less so.

Edward's mother died when he was thirty four and for months he was incapacitated by some odd psychological malady.

Who says psychological malady does not run deep in families?

When he entered St. Elizabeths, Hinckley was given a diagnosis of two major psychological maladies - psychosis and major depression.

It is also a rarely used descriptive term for so-called feral children; "Mowgli syndrome" is not a recognized psychological or physiological malady.

Anthynus regains consciousness in Osrick's place; his assertions of his identity are taken as symptoms of his psychological malady.

But she dressed in a way that obscured her psychological maladies - no mess.

The feminist literary critic's claim that the Gulf War and chronic-fatigue syndromes are merely psychological maladies meets with predictably high levels of vitriol.