Both Uses of
psychotic
in
A Man Named Dave
- Part of me felt that Russell's disposition was due to Mother's years of psychotic brainwashing, or maybe jealousy that I had escaped her wrath while he and my other brothers remained behind.†
p. 82.5 *psychotic = related to psychosis or someone who suffers from a psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)
- Alice—who had suffered years of Mother's psychotic "disciplinary instructions" on what a burden I was to society in general during late-night drunken ramblings—had had her fill of Mother.†
p. 111.0