psycho-comb. form

1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse B j Somatalgia and Psychalgia, the one the dyscrasie of the body, the other the malady and distemperature of the soule.

1883 T. S. Clouston Clin. Lect. Mental Dis. 16 Most cases of melancholia might be called mental pain. Indeed, it would be more scientifically be called Psychalgia.

1908 G. S. Hall Adolescence I. 480 The readiness with which psychalgia passes to somatalgia.

1981 Jrnl. Family Pract. 13 257 The disorders considered include..psychogenic pain disorder (psychalgia), hypochondriasis, factitious disorder, and malingering.

1716 M. Davies Diss. Physick 21 in Athenæ Britannicæ III The great Psycandrick as well as Somandrick Secret of the Chymical Grand Elixir.

1904 A. A. Eshner tr. L. Landois Text-bk. Human Physiol. 800 The sphere for bodily sensation, psycho-esthetic and psycho-algic center, comprises the area between the fossa of Sylvius and the corpus callosum, including the central convolutions, the foot of all of the frontal convolutions, the paracentral lobule, and the gyrus fornicatus.

1925 W. J. H. Sprott tr. E. Kretschmer Physique & Char. ii. xiv. 258 An indefinite number of individual temperamental shades emerge from the psychæsthetic [Ger. psychästhetischen] and diathetic proportions.

1951 Jrnl. Aesthetics 10 2 Our discussion will have to go in two directions: (1) What are the specific attributes of the art of the blind? (2) What psycho-aesthetic implications result from it for the world of the normal-sighted?

2003 S. Lehar World in Your Head xi. 264 The psycho-aesthetic hypothesis extends the science of psychophysics also into the aesthetic domain.

1909 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics II. 448/2 Psycho-æsthetics,..the application of psycho~physiology to the study of æsthetic states... Helmholtz in Germany, and Grant Allen in England, tried to determine the physiological concomitants of certain phenomena of the Beautiful.

1975 H. Bloom Map of Misreading ii. v. 104 A fuller theory of the psychoesthetics of literary representation than has yet been given to us.

1998 Tulsa Stud. Women's Lit. 17 160 What I find most compelling here are McCabe's forays into the psychoaesthetics of poetic form.

1895 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Psycho-auditory, a term signifying belonging to the perception of sound.

1942 Lancet 10 Oct. 436/1 Presumably the psycho-auditory centres keep accurate copies of those scenes which the psycho-visual centre and the frontal lobes have long since and carefully repressed.

1926 Glasgow Herald 17 Apr. 4/2 It is possible that some kinds of variations or mutations are psycho-biotic phenomena.

1987 Rev. in Amer. Hist. 15 11 A putative psychobiotic crisis over debt conceived of as a cultural condition.

1889 Athenæum 5 Jan. 12/1 Instead of the association of mental atoms, we are coming to the idea of segmentation of a psychoblast, if we may invent such a term.

1892 Monist 2 293 In experimental psychology, psychopetal, psychofugal, and psychocentral processes are distinguished.

1906 A. T. Ormond Concepts Philos. i. iii. 70 The real order of the world..is not wholly extra-mental, but mind has supplied to it the essential features of its objectivity. The result of the discovery for Kant was a change from what we may call a hylocentric to a psychocentric conception of the world of reality.

1912 E. B. Holt et al. New Realism 7 The issue between realism and subjectivism does not arise from a psychocentric predicament—a difficulty of conceiving of objects apart from any consciousness—but rather from the much more radical ‘egocentric predicament’.

1956 J. B. Rhine in A. Pryce-Jones New Outl. Mod. Knowl. 205 There have been psychocentric schools of psychology..but none of these psychocentric views has ever prevailed widely in academic psychology.

1997 Ethos 25 33 Compassion characterizes Western religion..and makes us psychocentric rather than culturecentric.

1900 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 11 600 The writer takes up..passive and then active sadness, morbid joy, their original mechanism, their psycho-physiology, psycho-chemistry, [etc.].

1931 Chem. News 23 Jan. 51/1 Colloidal and physiological chemistry have advanced to the extent that we should now be able to envisage a Psychochemistry, or Chemical Psychology.

2000 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 21 May a1 Her own education took place in a professional culture in which the mind was seen as a biopsychological engine—an engine which, when it failed, posed a problem in psychochemistry.

1883 T. S. Clouston Clin. Lect. Mental Dis. i. 18 I can devise no better name than the usual one of Stupor... ‘Psychocoma’ would express this condition.

1996 G. E. Berrios Hist. Mental Symptoms 389 This confusion was not lost to Clouston who subdivided stupor (which he called psychocoma) into melancholic, anergic, secondary [etc.].

1926 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 32 522 The regions where the psychocultural concerns are located are interest areas, or the countries of the mind.

1948 L. K. Frank Personality & Culture (heading) 1 The term ‘psychocultural’..implies an integration of the concepts of psychiatry, psychology, and anthropology as an approach to..the study of human behaviour.

1992 J. Silverberg & J. P. Gray Aggression & Peacefulness 207 The fact that, after generations of warfare and raiding, they were persuaded almost overnight to abandon it suggests that an internal psychocultural dynamic was crucial to the maintenance and continuation of the pattern of endemic warfare.

1901 A. C. Halphide Psychic & Psychism i. 21 There are many schools of Psycho-curative systems, all of which might be classified under the title Mental Medicine.

1953 Cape Times 14 Feb. 5/2 The doctors believe that the installation of a pigeon loft at the hospital may have a psycho-curative effect.

1887 Jrnl. Physiol. 8 312 Obersteiner prefers to call it a Psychodometer.

1934 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 46 380 The apparatus used was a commercial set-up called a psychodometer, the timing element of which consists essentially of a Dunlap chronoscope synchronized by a 50 d.v. tuning fork.

1957 J. Delay in N. S. Kline Psychopharmacology Frontiers 427 Mescaline and diethylamide of lysergic acid..are usually described under the term ‘psychotomimetics’. Perhaps the term ‘psychodysleptics’ would be preferable to indicate the characteristic action of deviating mental activity and distorting appreciation of reality values.

1961 Kalinowsky & Hoch Somatic Treatments in Psychiatry ii. 8 Psychodysleptics or psychotomimetics. This refers to a group of drugs which can produce the so-called ‘model psychoses’ and which have characteristically hallucinogenic and mildly stimulant properties.

1973 Science 6 Apr. 87/2 Studies on their abuse potential, psychodysleptic actions, [etc.] will be presented.

1974 Nature 27 Sept. 314/1 Some psychodysleptics (mescaline sulphate and LSD), when injected during the photosensitive larval period, suppress diapause induction as if the larvae were subjected to a long 16-h photophase.

2003 Pharmacol. Biochem. & Behaviour 75 501 Many species of hallucinogenic (psychodysleptic) plants are used by humans throughout the world.

1927 K. Young Source Bk. Social Psychol. i. v. 88 The psycho-emotional reactions produced by the stimulation of terrifying scenes.

1999 Nursing Times 4 Aug. 50/3 The building of hospice units in the UK enabled professionals to concentrate on patients' pain, symptom control and psycho-emotional needs rather than on the disease process itself.

1896 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 2 328 The psycho-ethical value cannot be separated from the economic value.

1954 Philos. East & West 4 202 This conception, therefore, is not the same as that of soul, which is the psycho-ethical personality.

2000 Xinzhong Yao Introd. Confucianism ii. 75 At the psycho-ethical level, all humans have a heart/mind that cannot bear to see the sufferings of others, and this shows that humans are born with innate feelings of goodness.

1892 Philos. Rev. 1 106 The psychopetal processes, usually called forth by stimulation of the special senses, have been far more investigated than what Dr Münsterberg considers the more important psychofugal,—as, for instance, muscle and joint sensations.

1906 A. Forel Hypnotism 269 Psychofugal messages from the brain to the spinal cord.

1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. Psychogeusic centre, supposed centre for perception of taste, in the gyrus uncinatus.

1891 Daily News 16 Feb. 3/6 ‘Psychognosis’ at the Royal Aquarium.—This is the title which M. Guibal has adopted for a new and certainly very remarkable development of..the thought-reading process.

1897 Mind 6 584 M Dessoir..investigates the nature of ‘psychognosis’—that practical knowledge of men's minds which belongs to the man of the world and the literary artist.

1947 Rev. Politics 9 365 Instead of cleverly got-up ‘psychognosis’ which is so flattering to many readers, there prevails in Mr. Eyck's book a high sense of the historian's ethical responsibility.

a1832 J. Bentham Ess. Logic in Wks. (1843) VIII. 284/1 Somatology,..or somatics; psychology, psychognosy, or psychics—to one or other of these denominations will every branch of science, which has for its subject the field of, to us, perceptible existence.., be found referable.

1924 O. Kraus in tr. F. Brentano Psychol. from Empirical Standpoint (1995) 391 In Brentano's opinion..descriptive psychology or psychognosy is more than a purely factual science.

1682 H. More Annot. Disc. Truth 194 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. There being nothing absurd in Psychopyrism but so far forth as it includes Psycho-Hylism, and makes the soul material.

1955 Theosophist 76 133/2 The author..investigates the theme that the soul or consciousness or mind has its material side, even..after death. He gives for this the name of psycho-hylism.

1682 H. More Annot. Disc. Truth 193 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. There is no more harshness in calling him Psychopyrist, than if he had called him Psycho-Hylist.

1868 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 229 There is that psycholatry in it which is characteristic of the writer.

1887 A. B. Ellis Tshi-speaking Peoples xi. 149 (heading) Psycholatry and human sacrifices.

1912 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics V. 526/2 From this starting-point the development proceeds in two directions, which lead on the one hand to Psycholatry (Spirit-worship, Animism) in its simplest form, on the other to Ancestor- and Nature-worship.

1962 D. D. Jackson in Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 135 436/1 More accurately, perhaps, we should speak of psycholytic drugs given by psychosogenic therapists.

1963 R. A. Sandison in R. Crocket et al. Hallucinogenic Drugs 34 This total experience of the unconscious, brought about by the power of LSD to loosen the psyche, has led to a feeling that the hallucinogenic drugs should be renamed the psycholytic drugs. This name, which is free from the many objections attached to the word ‘hallucinogenic’ was first suggested and adopted at Göttingen last year.

1967 Lancet 14 Jan. 119/1 European Medical Society of Psycholytic Therapy. This society held its first meeting from Oct. 28 to 30 in Amsterdam.

1989 Jrnl. Psychoactive Drugs 21 123 The psycholytic approach, which was derived from the psychoanalytic paradigm, is a technique employing low doses of psychedelic drugs to reduce psychological defenses and to release unconscious information.

1899 Philos. Rev. 8 444 The data of such an enquiry are sensations and ideas,—sensations, and direct memory-images of sensations; his standpoint is that of psychomonism.

1904 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 497 Their psychomonism asserts..one thing only exists and that is my own mind.

1994 A. C. Lammers In God's Shadow 22 In his insistence on the primacy of the subject, Jung approaches psychomonism: a conviction that no reality exists outside of subjective psychic perceptions.

1890 Smithsonian Rep. i. 663 Dr. Semal advocated a psycho-moral examination of the delinquent in order to determine his condition, whether he was a confirmed criminal or only a criminal on occasion.

1915 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 20 504 The dissolution of the older psycho-moral and religious unity of the folk.

1980 London Rev. Bks. 17 July 4/2 [They] dignify their rubbishy trade with night-school psycho-moral platitudes.

1925 W. J. H. Sprott tr. E. Kretschmer Physique & Char. ii. ix. 134 The psychomotility..of the cycloid is even and adequate to the stimulus, and motor expressions and movements are well rounded, fluid, and natural.

1943 H. Read Educ. through Art iv. 79 Within the main cycloid and schizoid groups, there are a considerable number of psychaesthetic variants and a considerable degree of psychomotility.

1984 Jrnl. Psychiatric Res. 18 57 The evidence for seemingly disparate dysfunctions in schizophrenia of eye movements, psychomotility, [etc.].., is consistent with a disruption of frontal lobe mechanisms of stimulus-response and drive-response modulation.

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xx. 164 Thus we should escape the responsibility of explaining, by falling back on the everlasting inscrutability of the psycho-neural nexus.

1969 Word 1967 23 469 Nor can we yet identify all of the psychoneural factors which enter into the final stage of speech perception, ‘understanding’.

1990 E. Harth Dawn of Millennium (1991) vi. 92 The shimmering pattern of neural activity is your cognition, thought, consciousness, and that is that. This view goes by the name psychoneural identity theory.

1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) 708/2 Psychonosology, the doctrine of, or a treatise on, diseases of the mind.

1885 W. Stirling tr. L. Landois Text-bk. Human Physiol. II. xiii. 921 The psycho-optic..centre,..according to Munk, embraces the outer convex part of the occipital lobe of the dog's brain.

1937 Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry (Chicago) 37 1173 Both kinds of movements belong to the so-called psycho-optic reflexes because, being produced by visual stimuli, they are performed more or less instinctively.

1962 Vision Res. 2 73 On the assumption that..these reflexes are accompanied by visual awareness of the stimuli,..the cortically mediated reflexes have long been called 'psycho-optic' reflexes... There is no good reason not to call the reflex component of convergence 'psycho-optic'.

1982 Münchener Med. Wochenshr. 124 695/1 Stereoscopic dream contents which were routinely sketched during the psychoanalysis of a left-handed subject turned out as mirror image presentations of geographical reality... The genesis and topography of this psycho-optic phenomenon are commented on.

1946 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 59 112 These movements belong to the class designated by Hofmann as psycho-optical reflex movements.

1954 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 12) xxvii. 462 The involuntary reflexes which depend on vision (fixation, fusional movements, convergence, etc.)—the psycho-optical reflexes—are centred in the visual cortex of the occipital lobe.

1999 Leonardo 32 47/1 It combines the psycho-optical phenomenon of stereopsia, a nineteenth-century discovery, with twentieth-century technology.

1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II. 403/2 Psycho-osmic centre, olfactory centre.

1883 T. S. Clouston Clin. Lect. Mental Dis. i. 18 When the morbid condition is one of mental enfeeblement it is called Dementia or Amentia... It might be called Psychoparesis.

1892 Philos. Rev. 1 106 The psychopetal processes, usually called forth by stimulation of the special senses, have been far more investigated than what Dr Münsterberg considers the more important psychofugal,—as, for instance, muscle and joint sensations.

1955 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ In Memoriam James Joyce 47 So beyond all that is heteroepic, holophrastic, Macaronic, philomathic, psychopetal, Jerqueing every idioticon, Comes this supreme paraleipsis.

1962 Social Probl. 9 392/1 Some individual psychiatrists resist the use of the psychopharmaceutical drugs.

1964 Dis. Nerv. System 25 233/2 The effects of discontinuing psychopharmaceuticals in a large group of long-term schizophrenic patients.

1989 R. Jones Transparent Gestures iv. 63 The little hits of psychopharmaceutical bliss the street kids still call purple microdots were delivered in plain Ziploc sandwich bags.

1999 Guardian 21 Jan. ii. 2/2 Although no one really knows how these psychopharmaceuticals work, the existence of experts resulted in a tendency to pretend there was real know-how in a process that is mostly trial and error marked occasionally by alchemy.

1850 A. J. Davis Great Harmonia I. 103 Plato and Paul taught the same doctrine, in very dissimilar terms; the first as a psycho-philosopher, the latter as a religionist of the zealous and sacrificial school.

1944 Jrnl. Philos. 41 514 Søren Kiergegaard, that profound psycho-philosopher..whose work is only now coming to American recognition, gives an excellent definition of the purpose of music.

1982 E. Schiff From Stereotype to Metaphor 212 Less easily categorized is Saul Bellow's richly nuanced comic psycho-philosopher in The Last Analysis.

1872 Overland Monthly Dec. 574/2 The story is strongly psycho-philosophical, internal and spiritual in conception.

1936 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 23 397 A psycho-philosophical explanation of Spanish institutions and methods.

1992 Atlantic Mar. 22/1 He undertook as a hobby what he describes as ‘the complete psychophilosophical integration of Eastern and Western ways of thinking’.

1924 Burlington Mag. Feb. 90/2 The hypothesis of the human mind evolving a complicated top layer so irksome to the underlying layers that periodical revolutions against it represent the summit of happiness, might seem too paradoxical to merit serious consideration. But the psycho-philosophy of Freud will perhaps have paved the way to such a view.

1960 IRE Trans. Electronic Computers 9 524/1 The pragmatic philosophy of C. S. Peirce helped save much of philosophy from the sterilizing effect of psycho~philosophy.

1996 Jrnl. Black Stud. 27 178 Freud's works on dream interpretation, initiation, racial unconsciousness, and inheritance remain consequences of his knowledge of Egyptians' psychophilosophy.

1876 A. Blackwell tr. ‘A. Kardec’ Medium's Bk. 447 Psychophony [Fr. psychophonie], the communication of spirits by the voice of a speaking medium.

2004 W. Alegretti Retrocognitions xi. 116 This [sc. retrocognition] can occur..during psychophony (vocal communication), psychography (through writing), [etc.].

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 627 Heliotherapy, psychophysicotherapeutics, osteopathic surgery.

1915 Mind 24 3 We have seen that the spontaneity of the dialogue form required that the tripartite psychology, the cardinal virtues, and the psycho-political analogy should be obtained by analysing the Ideal State.

1948 J. Towster Polit. Power in U.S.S.R. iv. 57 While the unification of nations is the goal ne plus ultra, there are enormous psycho-political obstacles in the way.

1971 K. Millett Sexual Politics ii. iii. 73 The psycho~political tactic here is a pretence that the indolence and luxury of the upper-class woman's role..was the happy lot of all women.

1993 Atlantic Aug. 36/1 Before anyone could respond, Bojars demonstrated one of the unavoidable pitfalls in the psychopolitical approach to ethnic conflict.

1942 I. A. Richards in Fortune Sept. 108/1 Geopolitics, the study of the sources of physical power and their control, has lately made a name for itself... But the parallel and superior study—of the sources of will power and their control—seems so far to enjoy no name of its own... The other study—let us call it psychopolitics—were it also methodized, could easily put geopolitics back in the handmaid's place where it belongs.

1961 Guardian 2 Nov. 8/2 Robert Jungk..wanted to do his thesis on what he called ‘psychopolitics’, the interaction between mass psychology and mass psychology movements and politics.

1980 Boston Globe 3 Feb. b1 Kantor claims that people's current patterns of interaction, or ‘psychopolitics’, are based on ‘critical identity images’.

2000 N.Y. Times 13 July a29/2 Retrospective apologies can be a kind of psychopolitics that makes the apologizer feel good without doing anything concrete about the enduring consequences of past injustices.

1934 H. Hiler Notes Technique Painting 332 Psycho-prismatism, the affective psychology of colour. The study of the reactions of human beings or animals to the various colours.

1739 ‘J. Philander’ (title) The Golden Calf. Or a supplement to Apuleius's Golden Ass..with the Wonders of Psychoptic Looking Glass, lately invented by the author.

1682 H. More Annot. Disc. Truth 194 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. There being nothing absurd in Psychopyrism but so far forth as it includes Psycho-Hylism, and makes the soul material.

1682 H. More Answer Lett. Psychopyrist To Rdr. sig. Q3^v, in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (ed. 2) The Psychopyrists..make the Essence or Substance of all created Spirits to be Fire.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 338 The doubtful relation of the optic thalamus to psycho-reflex mimetic movements.

1906 Lancet 14 Apr. 1022/2 The condition which blocks the path of reflex pupillary constriction blocks also that of psycho-reflex dilatation.

1967 Jrnl. Neurol. Sci. 5 378 That [sc. the classification] of normal reflexes is particularly diverse, being divided into: somatic and autonomic; deep, superficial and interoceptive; motor, secretory, vascular;..axon-reflexes and psycho-reflexes.

1990 F. Tustin Protective Shell in Children & Adults i. 19 Encapsulation..is the distinguishing feature of autism... It is a combination of psychoreflex, neuro-mental, and psycho-chemical reactions.

1883 T. S. Clouston Clin. Lect. Mental Dis. Index 630/1 Psychorhythm.

1899 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Psychorrhythm [sic],..an alternating or cyclic mental state.

1907 Lancet 9 Feb. 404/2 Dr. T. B. Hyslop: Psycho-rhythm and Recurrent Psychoses.

1981 Perspectives New Music 20 646 Psycho-rhythms are now brandished as virtual subterranean and subconscious symbolic fields to be sensed and dealt with intuitively.

1902 W. M. Alexander Demonic Possession in New Test. i. 33 They [sc. demons] are ‘half spirits’ and are therefore possessed of a semi-sensuous or psycho-sarcous constitution.

1885 F. W. H. Myers in Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 3 61 Somnambulism, double-consciousness, epilepsy, insanity itself, are all of them natural psychoscopes.

1905 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 16 481 The plethysmograph will never serve as a psychoscope for the diagnosis of affective processes.

1970 Slavic Rev. 29 673 In both the The Trial Begins and Liubimov, the KGB agents Vitya and Tolya dream of creating a ‘psychoscope’—a remotely operated mind-reading machine.

1992 R. J. Langs Sci. Systems & Psychoanal. 47 The psychoscope is an intangible instrument—as noted, it is a set of mental functions or operations.

1882 Lancet 4 Mar. 373/2 According to the learned professor, hallucinations are the result of psycho-sensorial p henomena, which are invariably due to a morbid condition of the nervous centres.

1975 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 88 335 Respiratory diving physiology as it relates to..perceptual and psychosensorial phenomena.

1881 Lancet 5 Mar. 380/2 The state of the various reflex centres appears to stand in no definite relation to the condition of the psycho-motor or psycho-sensory centres.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 775 In those patients who experience such psycho-sensory auræ there is a strong tendency to mental derangement.

1959 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 13) iv. 38 The pupils participate in several reflexes, three of which are of clinical importance:... 3. The psycho~sensory reflex, whereby a dilatation occurs on psychic and sensory stimuli.

1999 Amer. Naturalist 154 38/1 Females [sc. guppies] have one set of psychosensory and behavioral adaptations (i.e., one preference) that selects for all the ornaments.

1900 School Rev. 8 482 The point of view which guided selection of titles was the Psycho-Sociological one; the sociological significance of the development of play.

1989 B. Paris Louise Brooks i. iv. 83 In Wilson's psychosociological opinion, Ziegfeld's well-trained chorus girls did not represent ‘the movement and abandon of emotion, but..the efficiency of mechanical movement’.

1921 W. L. George Hail Columbia vi. 238 The psycho-sociologist knows that statistics are merely lies made respectable.

1997 Foreign Policy 107 86 Psychosociologists have conflicting opinions on the influence that this activity [sc. computer war games] may have on children's intellectual formation.

1902 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 7 838 (table) Univ. of Wisconsin..Psycho-sociology [title of course].

1908 Science 10 July 54 Dr. Ross well says that social psychology is not the same as psycho-sociology.

1957 R. K. Merton Student-physician 53 A middle ground which has been described as social psychology (or, by some, psycho-sociology).

1995 Harper's Mag. Feb. 73/2 Our hopes rose when a garrulous professor of psychosociology recognized us in the street. He declared he would ‘go to bat’ for us in his department at a local college.

1820 L. Hunt Indicator 8 Mar. 176 A part of wisdom which our modern psychosophists are so apt to forget.

1890 Cent. Dict. Psychosophy, the metaphysics of mind; one of the branches of psychology in the older systems.

1913 J. M. Baldwin Hist. Psychol. I. i. 8 The Period of Pre-historical and Pre-logical Interpretation, occurring in primitive peoples,..is the period of ‘psychosophy’, preceding psychology. It corresponds to the early a-dualistic and practical period of the child's apprehension of the self.

1937 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 247 J. M. Baldwin characterizes the early pre-logical gropings of the primitive mind towards some sort of account of mental life as ‘psychosophy’.

1901 C. R. Dryer Lessons Physical Geogr. ii. 26 The Mind Sphere (psychosphere) includes all those features and institutions which are the products of human intelligence, such as states, cities, roads, and factories.

1913 J. Murray Ocean x. 228 We may say that within the biosphere a sphere of reason and intelligence has been evolved in man, who attempts to interpret and explain the cosmos; this may be called the psycho-sphere.

1957 P. B. Sears Ecology of Man 10 To these might be added Mind—the Psychosphere, studied by psychologists, anthropologists and other social scientists.

1996 D. F. Wallace Infinite Jest 382 Johnny Gentle..promised..to rid the American psychosphere of the unpleasant debris of a throw-away past.

1965 Internat. Jrnl. Neuropsychiatry 1 417/2 We, therefore, suggest that Bleuler's term of localized psycho-syndrome (LPS) be adopted, since it covers well the special symptomatology of a brain syndrome in that age group.

1976 J. R. Smythies & L. Corbett Psychiatry Students of Med. vii. 113 Non-specific endocrine psychosyndromes occur with apathy, depression and lability of mood.

2002 V. N. Shaw Substance Use & Abuse i. 9 Stress has become part of the Western psychosyndrome.

1913 Science 22 Aug. 265/1 George Davis Bivin: ‘A Study in Psychosynthesis’ [thesis title, Clark University].

1924 J. Riviere et al. tr. S. Freud Coll. Papers II. xxxiv. 395 The neurotic human being brings us his mind racked and rent by resistances; whilst we are working at analysis of it and removing the resistances, this mind of his begins to grow together; that great unity which we call his ego fuses into one... The psycho-synthesis is thus achieved during analytic treatment without our intervention.

1975 M. Samuels & N. Samuels Seeing with Mind's Eye iii. 37 Currently, visualization is being used in a number of different psychotherapeutic techniques—including..directed day~dreams, Psychosynthesis, and behaviorist desensitization.

1994 Amer. Health Sept. 69/2 She also began twice-weekly psychotherapy with a specialist in ‘psychosynthesis’, which uses fantasy to explore hidden aspects of the personality.

1944 H. G. Wells '42 to '44 172 What a psycho-analyst calls the Unconscious, but which, according to the psycho-synthesist, is merely a multitude of reaction systems out of contact with the main directive system.

1995 V. Fodor Desperately seeking Self 144 Transformation can be defined as restructuring, a rebirth, an awakening. Psychosynthesist Anne Yeomans sees it as ‘the falling apart of old known ways of being and the coming together..of new more evolved ways of being’.

1913 C. M. Campbell in W. A. White & S. E. Jelliffe Mod. Treatm. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 598 It is frequently assumed that any emphasis laid on the psychoanalytic, or better psychosynthetic, method of treatment means the neglect of other considerations.

1940 H. G. Wells All aboard for Ararat ii. 80 The core of the new world must be (listen to these words!) Atheist, Creative, Psycho~synthetic.

2000 A. Craft Creativity across Primary Curriculum i. 8 There is the psychosynthetic perspective which sees creativity as involving conscious choice over levels of unconscious processes.

1842 M. Fuller in Mem. (1862) I. 246 It would seem to approach the faith of some of my friends here, which has been styled Psychotheism.

1956 Amer. Anthropologist 58 1000 Finally they [sc. men] deified mental, moral, social traits, such as war, love, etc. (psychotheism).

2002 G. Hoffman & G. S. Rosenkrantz Divine Attributes i. 12 Thus, these three religions [sc. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam] are forms of psychotheism, the belief in a wholly spiritual God or gods.

1942 N.Y. Times 12 Nov. 23/5 A novel of a young actor's violent ups and downs. A first novel that the publishers have called a ‘psychothriller’.

1976 Denbighshire Free Press 8 Dec. 6/2 The programme is completed by the psycho thriller ‘Night Caller’, AA certificate film.

2003 Fangoria Oct. 13/1 They're finally getting around to releasing this psychothriller about four students' frightening experiences in a subterranean chamber.

1910 W. A. Turner Three Lect. Epilepsy 25 He has described the psycho-motor, psycho-sensory, psycho-visual, and psycho-auditory centre in close relation to the motor, sensory, visual, and auditory centres.

1969 G. C. Dickinson Maps & Air Photographs iv. 63 The conventional colour sequence, which follows spectrum order from violet through shades of blue, green, yellow and orange to red (or more commonly brown), accords well with the psycho-visual properties of colours—blues for submarine areas are ‘recessive’, reds for hills ‘stand out’—but there can be unfortunate suggestive overtones.

1971 Nature 19 Mar. 180/1 It is hoped that a laboratory equipped for psychovisual studies will..report on the degree to which descriptions of ‘artificial’ ball lightning resemble those of the natural phenomenon that are recorded in the scientific literature.

1996 WEBTechniques Dec. 58/1 HVS is a patented, psychovisual algorithm that represents graphics in a color space that closely matches how our eyes actually perceive and mask color.

1868 Jrnl. Anthropol. Soc. 6 p. vii In the anatomical department of section D a paper was read, on the ‘Phenomena of Life and Mind’, by Mr. Dunn, who upheld the old distinction between the psycho-vital and the physical forces.

1943 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 3 256 The existentially significant functions of artistic values in the three forms of those values, namely, formal or eurythmic, imitative, and ‘material-positive’..or psycho-vital.

1961 P. Mairet tr. M. Eliade Images & Symbols ii. 88 As we know, ida and pingala are the two channels in which the psycho-vital energy circulates through the human body.

1867 H. Hartshorne Essent. Princ. & Pract. Med. 16 At the beginning of the seventeenth century, there grew up, in the University of Halle, two opposing theories: the Animism or psycho-vitalism of Stahl, and the Solidism and [sic] neuro-pathology of Hoffmann.

1910 Philos. Rev. 19 682 The similarity of his [sc. Schopenhauer's] philosophy of nature to Lamarckianism was overlooked until the recent rise of psychovitalism.

1955 F. Mainx in O. Neurath et al. Internat. Encycl. Unified Sci. I. ii. 631 Extreme psychovitalism is the only form of vitalism which has been thought out thoroughly.

1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind iii. 104 If the choice lay between a mechanistic or a (psycho-)vitalistic [Ger. (psycho)-vitalistische] explanation, we should feel obliged to choose the latter.

1997 M. Mahner & M. Bunge Found. Biophilos. x. 369 The psychovitalistic form of internal teleology is also at odds with a scientific ontology.

1828 S. T. Coleridge Shorter Wks. & Fragm. (1995) II. 1445 Self-impulsions that are merely corporeal..and never arrive at the Consciousness = psilo-somatic and not..the psycho-somatic, or psycho-zöic.

1878 J. Le Conte Elements Geol. (1879) 269 The Psychozoic era, or era of Mind.

1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xxi. 368 (table) Successful geological periods... Psychozoic... [Representative life] Man and modern animals.