Emotional disorder
Emotional disorder – this definition transcends and possibly complements traditional descriptive diagnostic categories, and candidate dimensional models of psychopathology by focusing on putative mechanisms that contribute to the onset and maintenance of disorders characterized primarily by dysfunction in the interpretation and regulation of emotion.
Jacqueline R. Bullis, Division of Depression and Anxiety Disorders, Harvard Medical School. (2019). What is an emotional disorder? Clinical psychology: Science and practice. doi: 10.1111/cpsp.12278. Retrieved from: sli.ink/Fs5W