| psychogogic | Acting as a stimulant to the emotions. Origin: psycho-+ G. Agogos, a leading away (05 Mar 2000) |
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| psychographic | Relating to psychography. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychography | 1. A description of the phenomena of mind. 2. Spirit writing. Origin: Psycho-. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| psychohistory | The combined use of psychology (especially psychoanalysis) and history in the writing, especially of biography, as in the work of Erik Erikson. See: psychography. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychoimmunology | <study> The study of how a person's psychological state affects his or her immunesystem. (09 Oct 1997) |
| psychokinesis | Psychokinesia 1. The influence of mind upon matter, as the use of mental "power" to move or distort an object. 2. Impulsive behaviour. Origin: psycho-+ G. Kinesis, movement (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychokym | Rarely used term for the physiologic substrate of psychic processes. Origin: psycho-+ G. Kyma, wave (05 Mar 2000) |
| psycholagny | Rarely used term for sexual excitement and satisfaction from mental imagery. Origin: psycho-+ G. Lagneia, lust (05 Mar 2000) |
| psycholepsy | Rarely used term for sudden mood changes accompanied by feelings of hopelessness and inertia. Origin: psycho-+ G. Lepsis, seizure (05 Mar 2000) |
| psycholeptic | <psychiatry> Of or relating to psycholepsy, that is an attack of hopelessness and mental inertia especially following elation and occurring typically in psychasthenic (characterologically weak) patients. (18 Nov 1997) |
| psycholinguistics | A discipline concerned with relations between messages and the characteristics of individuals who select and interpret them; it deals directly with the processes of encoding (phonetics) and decoding (psychoacoustics) as they relate states of messages to states of communicators. (12 Dec 1998) |
| psychologic | Pertaining to psychology. (18 Nov 1997) |
| psychological | Pertaining to psychology. (18 Nov 1997) |
| psychological dependence | <psychiatry> Pattern of compulsive drug use characterised by a continued craving for an opioid and the need to use the opioid for effects other than pain relief. (16 Dec 1997) |
| psychological phenomena and processes | Mechanisms and underlying psychological principles of mental processes and their applications. (12 Dec 1998) |