pathographic

English

Alternative forms

• pathographical

Etymology

From pathography +‎ -ic.

Adjective

pathographic (not comparable)

1. Relating to pathography.
   • 1931, Erich F. Podach, The Madness of Nietzsche, page 62:

     At the same time Hildebrandt's attack on all pathographic methods that look for nothing but morbid symptoms or simply assume the existence of such symptoms when convenient, is masterful only in so far as it deals with the period before Nietzsche's collapse.

   • 2013, Giovanni Stanghellini, Thomas Fuchs, One Century of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology:

     Although this perspective of limits of understanding is very fascinating there emerges out of it a constant problem for the pathographic viewpoint.

   • 2016, Tom O'Brien, The Screening of America:

     In the arts alone, Raphael, Rembrandt, Jackson Pollock, Picasso, and John Lennon were all given the pathographic treatment in the later eighties—the latter two in notorious biographies.