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Of or pertaining to the soul; psychical. Bayne.

A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis based on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud (1856- --) of Vienna. The method rests upon the theory that hysteria is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously persistent; it consists in a close analysis of the patient's mental his…

A lovely maiden, daughter of a king and mistress of Eros, or Cupid. She is regarded as the personification of the soul.

Any small moth of the genus Psyche and allied genera (family Psychidæ). The larvæ are called basket worms. See Basket worm, under Basket.

The application of the healing art to mental diseases. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to psychiatria.

taining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; -- contrasted with physical. Psychical blindness, Psychical deafness (Med.), forms of nervous disease in which, while the senses of sight and hearing remain unimpaired, the mind fails to appreciate the significance of the sounds heard or the images seen. -- P…

Psychology.

The doctrine of Quesne, that there is a fluid universally diffused, end equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations. Fleming.

A combining form from Gr. the soul, the mind, the understanding; as, psychology.

Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

= Psychanalysis, Psychanalytic.

Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection.

A description of the phenomena of mind.

Of or pertaining to psychology. See Note under Psychic. -- Psy`cho*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

One who is versed in, devoted to, psychology.

A psychologist.

The science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul. Psychology, the science conversant about the phenomena of the mind, or conscious subject, or self. Sir W. Hamilton.…

A conflict of the soul with the body.