A pathologic drinker gets that way for a number of reasons: as escape (from his job, a nagging wife, depression); because he cannot adjust his personality to the normal course .
At Paris, so the legend went, the farsighted statesmen of Europe finally overrode Dulles' pathologic distrust of Communists, began to push him, kicking and protesting, toward the .
He may be a pathologic person but not necessarily crazy.
Hamlin Garland in Times Online As early as 1910, Garland said, he had noted in print "the centralization of our literary forces in New York City, many of whose reviewers and critics were of European ancestry and increasingly concerned with the pathologic side of life"....