Psychology: neurosis vs psychosis

Self-tutoring about psychological terms: the tutor mentions a possible distinction between neurosis and psychosis.

Over the years, I’ve developed the perception that neurosis and psychosis both involve a different viewpoint of reality from “typical.”

I would have gone on to say that, when a person suffers neurosis, two ideas hold:

1. Said person knows their viewpoint is different from those around them, and how.
2. Said person is aware of the need to hide their different point of view in order to fit in and function.

My distinction would then be that, with psychosis, the person under it is unaware their viewpoint is different; rather, they believe that others agree with them. Therefore, they are willing to take action resulting from their different point of view, thinking it will make sense to others as well.

I’ve since found a more refined explanation which seems not so different from what I’ve said above, at least to an untrained person. I’ll follow up.

Source:

medicalnewstoday.com

nopanic.org