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psychography|ps-, saɪˈkɒgrəfɪ|
[f. Gr. ψῡχο- psycho- + -γραϕία, -graphy.]
1. The history, description, or delineation of the mind or soul, or of mind in the abstract; the descriptive branch of psychology. Also, = psychobiography.
[a1850: cf. autopsychography s.v. auto-1] .1883Saintsbury in Academy 20 Jan. 36/3 This faculty of what may be called psychography, of drawing the landscape of moods with atmosphere and environment suitable and complete. 1895W. Archer in Daily Chron. 6 Nov. 3/1 You aim, then, at a sort of spiritual biography of your subject—what has recently been called a psychography. 1929G. Bradford in E. C. Wagenknecht Man C. Dickens p. xi, Psychography discards chronology, does not concern itself in any way with the sequence of external fact, except in so far as such is absolutely necessary to make clear the background. Ibid. i. 13 Before proceeding definitely to the psychography of Dickens, it is interesting and amusing to speculate on just what his own attitude toward this sort of inquiry would be.
2. Supposed ‘spirit-writing’ by the hand or intervention of a medium; cf. pneumatography 1.
1876A. Blackwell Kardec's Medium's Bk. 447 Psychography, the writing of spirits by a medium's hand. 1887Pall Mall G. 6 Sept. 3/1 He laughed at the Psychical Society... But he would slate-write before anybody. Psychography, he called it.
3. Psychol. The making of a psychogram (sense 2); the systematic experimental examination of an individual's personality. [ad. G. psychographie (W. Stern Differentielle Psychol. (1911) iii. xxii. 327).]
1921Education XLI. 510 Psychography may be defined as the science of making graphic records of mental traits. 1927A. A. Roback Psychol. of Character xxiii. 426 Psychography..records a person's total reactions (moral, temperamental, physical and intellectual) under all sorts of conditions. 1938G. W. Allport Personality xv. 404 Psychography has a striking advantage to offset its limitations. It is a method particularly well suited to the comparative study of personality, which..demands the use of common traits. |