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Noun: catathymia
  1. A state in which mental processes are under the control of the emotions.
    "The original idea of catathymia forwarded by Maier (1912), Wertham (1937), and other contemporaries was that the condition constituted its own clinical identity."

Type of: mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state