psycho- 或 psych-
pref.（前缀）
语源
pref.（前缀）
- Mind; mental:
心灵；精神的：
psychogenic.
精神起因的 - Mental activities or processes:
精神活动或过程：
psychomotor.
精神运动的 - Psychology; psychological:
心理学；心理学的：
psychohistory.
心理历史
语源
- Greek psukho- [soul, life]
希腊语 psukho- [灵魂，生命] - from psukhē * see bhes-
源自 psukhē *参见 bhes-
psycho- or (sometimes before a vowel) psych-
combining form
indicating the mind or psychological or mental processes
⇒
psychology
⇒
psychogenesis
⇒
psychosomatic
Origin
from Greek psukhē spirit, breathpsycho-
Word Origin
1
a combining form representing psyche, (psychological) and psychological, (psychoanalysis) in compound words.
Also, especially before a vowel, psych-.
Origin
< Greek, combining form of psȳchḗ breath, spirit, soul, mind; akin to psȳ́chein to blow (see psykter)
Related Words
- metempsychosis
- psychoacoustics
- psychoactive
- psychoanalysis
- psychoanalyst
- psychoanalyze
psycho-a word element representing 'psyche' (as in psychology and psychoanalysis).
Also, psych-. [Greek, combining form of psȳchē breath, spirit, soul, mind]
psycho-
combining form
⇨ see psych-
combining form
⇨ see psych-
psycho-
combining form
- relating to the mind or psychology表示“精神”, “灵魂”, “心理”：
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psychobabble
psychometrics.
词源
from Greek psukhē 'breath，soul，mind'.
1890 Billings Med. Dict. ,*Psychalgia, painful melancholy state of mind.
1716 M. Davies Athen.Brit. III.Diss. Physick 21The great *Psycandrick as well as Somandrick Secret of the Chymical Grand Elixir.
1900 S. B. Collins tr. M. de Fleury's Medicine & Mind v. 206*Psychasthenia..seemed to be modified..parallel with the oscillations of the blood pressure.
1906 Contemp. Rev. Feb. 229All the neuroses should be classified with neurasthenia under one generic title Psychasthenia.
1908 E. Worcester Relig. &Med. (N.Y. ) 115Psychasthenia..a form of nervous weakness in which the psychical element is dominant.
1926 . [ see extrovertn. (a.)]
1968 New Scientist 5 Sept. 500/1 Rupp suffered from a psychasthenia which led him to ascribe fictional properties to positrons.
1901 C. R. Corson tr. Janet's Mental State of Hystericals vi. 520It is very rare to meet a *psychasthenic patient who is, if we may so speak, a pure type of this affection.
Ibid. 521Abulia is a common characteristic with hystericals and psychasthenics.
1906 W. James Let. 6 May (1920) II. 254Pierre Janet discussed lately some cases of pathological impulsion or obsession in what he has called the ‘psychasthenic’ type of individual.
1908 E. Worcester Relig. &Med. (N.Y. ) 115Psychasthenic patients find it difficult to come to a decision..and this inability troubles them.
1977 A. Sheridan tr. J. Lacan's Écrits ii. 16States as diverse as phantasmatic fear, anger, active sorrow, or psychasthenic fatigue.
1961 Perspectives in Biol. &Med. IV. 428Asynchrony after application of analeptic and *psychoactive drugs. [ prevails]
1967 New Scientist 19 Jan. 128/1 Glossy magazines and sombre journals of opinion alike have discovered an intense interest in psychoactive drugs, drugs which affect the way people behave and feel.
1974 M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. xviii. 350These medicines are most often tranquilizers, sedatives, and other psychoactive agents.
1975 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C. ) 19 Oct. 17/2Advisers..avoided taking any position on the two most commonly used ‘psychoactive or mood-altering’ drugs—alcohol and tobacco.
1977 Rolling Stone 30 June 123/2 ( Advt. ),Psychoactive mushrooms... Chart, illustrations—tests for chemicals—105 alkaloid mushrooms, 42 psilocybin.
1971 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. &Technol. 357/2These tribesmen, having discovered that the narcotic constituent of the mushroom is excreted with almost undiminished *psychoactivity, incorporated a ritual urine-drinking ceremony.
1973 Nature 6 Apr. 367/3 These two amphetamine derivatives, which show profound psychoactivity in man.
1925 W. J. H Sprott tr. Kretschmer's Physique & Character ii. xiv. 258An indefinite number of individual temperamental shades emerge from the *psychæsthetic and diathetic proportions.
1943 . [ see psychomotility below]
1951 Jrnl. Aesthetics X. 2Our 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?
1973 Screen Spring/Summer 65 While there is perhaps no ‘eternal and immutable essence’ of the cinema as opposed to the theatre.., there is at least a psycho-aesthetic conditioning of each art by the technical constraints which define and constitute them.
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.
1939 Time & Tide 8 Apr. 454/1 Your temperament told from your taste in Old Masters. A stimulating essay in psycho-æsthetics.
1976 National Observer ( U.S. ) 8 May 15/1For the consumer who doesn't understand *psycho-babble, trying to sort out the various specialties can be downright mind-boggling: Gestalt, TA (Transactional Analysis), bio-energetics, sex therapy, behavior modification, . [ etc.]
1977 R. D. Rosen ( title)Psychobabble.
1977 Proc. R.Soc. Med. LXX. 806/1This was yet another American death book, full of psychobabble and journalistic cuttings from every other American death book.
1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 May 544/3The book is written in colloquial American spliced with psychobabble, a language in which the highest commendation is to say of someone ‘She was a person.’
1977 N.Y. TimesMag. 20 Nov. 124/4The *psychobabblers not only outnumber the rest of us, but..they have The Force on their side.
1978 Guardian Weekly 22 Jan. 19/1 She mocked the manners and morals and especially the ‘mindless prattle’ of the psychobabblers among whom she lives . [ in California]
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 II. 293 In experimental psychology, psychopetal, psychofugal, and *psychocentral processes are distinguished.
1936 J. O. Wisdom in Proc. AristotelianSoc. XXXVI. 62,I shall try to establish my *psychocentric analysis of right.
1949 Mind LVIII. 390 There is the traditional ‘psychocentric’ conception..: the dualistic conception, which regards the human being as a compound of two distinct but interacting entities, mind and body.
1956 J. B. Rhine in A. Pryce-Jones NewOutl. Mod. Knowl. 205There have been psychocentric schools of psychology..but none of these psychocentric views has ever prevailed widely in academic psychology.
1958 *Psychochemical . [ see psychotomimetic a.]
1959 New Scientist 20 Aug. 222 The Committee appears to have been particularly impressed by what the US Army's chemists told it about the so-called psychochemical weapons.
Ibid. ,Whatever the intrinsic power of ‘psychochemicals’ may prove to be, the picture of a bloodless war painted by the Congressional committee is hard to believe.
1965 B. Inglis Drugs, Doctors & Disease iii. 110Nowhere has the evidence of the power of placebo effect been more striking than in the new market for psycho-chemicals: pep pills and tranquillisers.
1972 G. Watson ( title)Nutrition and your mind: the psychochemical response.
1973 ‘A. Hall’ Tango Briefing xiv. 176Obviously psychochemicals but not related to mescaline or lysergic acid.
1977 Rolling Stone 21 Apr. 46/4 The Soviet Union was hard at work in psychochemical research.
1900 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. XI. 600The writer takes up..passive and then active sadness, morbid joy, their original mechanism, their psycho-physiology, *psycho-chemistry, . [ etc.]
1931 Chem. News 23 Jan. 51/1Colloidal and physiological chemistry have advanced to the extent that we should now be able to envisage a Psychochemistry, or Chemical Psychology.
1883 Clouston Clin. Lect. MentalDis. i. 18,I can devise no better name than the usual one of Stupor... ‘*Psychocoma’ would express this condition.
1951 M. A. Straus in Amer. Sociol. Rev. June 374One is led to what Frank has called a ‘*psychocultural’ rather than a purely psychological explanation of the phenomena of bilingual inferiority.
1977 Canada Jrnl. Linguistics 1976 XXI. 226The wider implications of language as a psychocultural, evolutionary phenomenon.
1901 A. C. Halphide Psychic & Psychism i. 21There 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.
1940 Proc. R.Soc. Med. XXXIII. 173 (heading)Myokinetic *psychodiagnosis: a new technique of exploring the conative trends of personality.
1969 J. E. Exner Rorschach Systems i. 5Rorschach might well be appalled were he to perceive how the technique is utilized in contemporary psychodiagnosis.
[ 1930Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry X. 50The Rorschach ‘Psychodiagnostik’ test, consisting of ten symmetrical ink-blots. ]
1937 Amer. Jrnl. Orthopsychiatry VII. 320With this paper we want to introduce a new concept in the theory and a new tool in the practice of Rorschach's *psychodiagnostic ink blot test.
1949 S. Rosenzweig Psychodiagnosis i. 1As a psychodiagnostic art clinical psychology derives historically from two chief sources—the psychometric and the psychodynamic.
1932 Character & Personality I. 2 The proper aim of a quarterly for *psychodiagnostics and allied studies seems to us to be to establish an organic connection among the numerous specialized branches of psychology.
1960 H. J. Eysenck Exper. Personality I. p. ix,Experiments in psychogenetics, psychopharmacology, psychodiagnostics ,..all..form part of the programme of research. [ etc.]
1970 Jrnl. Aesthetics XXIX. 105 (heading)The ink blot test, ‘psychodiagnostics’ and Hermann Rorschach's aesthetic views.
1890 Cent. Dict. ,*Psychodometer.
1892 D. H. Tuke Dict. Psychol. Med. II.,*Psychodometer, an instrument for measuring the rapidity of psychic events.
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.
1967 WHO Chron. XXI. 465/2Three classes of psychotropic drugs are particularly dependence-producing: the anxiolytic sedatives, the psychodysleptics (hallucinogens), and the psychostimulants.
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.
1946 Psychosomatic Med. VIII. 176 (heading)*Psychoendocrine relationships in pseudocyesis.
1958 M. Reiss Psychoendocrinol. i. 13The psychoendocrine concept is based on the discovery that the activity of the pituitary is related to the function of the hypothalamus.
1977 Proc. R.Soc. Med. LXX. 513/2Psychoendocrine relationships in affective disorders.
1961 Psychosomatic Med. XXIII. 449/1 (heading)*Psycho-endocrinologic studies in a male with cyclic changes in sexuality.
1958 M. Reiss Psychoendocrinol. 27No doubt people like Tamerlane..who had undescended testicles..have seemed brilliant just because they were *psychoendocrinologically not completely mature, and therefore more accessible to new impressions and situations.
Ibid. i. 20The responsibility of the *psychoendocrinologist in such a case has become very grave indeed.
1975 S. Arieti Amer. Handbk. Psychiatry IV. 554/2Psychoendocrinologists have been mainly preoccupied with the basic psycho⁓physiological exploration of the significance of hormonal responses as reflections of intrapsychic processes.
1953 M. Reiss in Internat. Rec. Med. CLXVI. 196*Psychoendocrinology will become in psychiatric research a much more recognized branch than it is at present.
1975 S. Arieti Amer. Handbk. Psychiatry IV. 555/1By the late 1950s, then, it was generally recognized not only that psychoendocrinology rested on a solid experimental foundation, but that psychological stimuli were, in fact, among the most potent of all natural stimuli to the pituitary-adrenal cortical system.
1892 *Psychofugal . [ see psycho-central above]
1953 J. L. Moreno Who shall Survive? iii. 440The *psychogeographic mapping of the community shows..the relationship of local geography to psychological processes.
1963 Listener 14 Feb. 299/1 The kind of psychogeographic studies made by the Situationists are all very well in communicating a feeling about man/environment relationships.
1958 Archit. Rev. CXXIV. 1/1It shows ‘quartiers d'états d'âme’ and ‘gradients of *psychogeographical drift’—factors not generally taken into account by the average planning authority.
1953 J. L. Moreno Who shall Survive? iii. 436There is also in *psychogeography in respect to a certain criterion either a yes or a no, whatever the motivation of this yes or no may be.
1958 Archit. Rev. CXXIV. 1/1This microclimatology of the psyche is something to which every town-dweller can testify, and in a city like Paris..it is a more than personal affair—that document of psychogeography, André Breton's Nuit du Tournesol, which ought on the face of it to be an entirely private exercise in erotic topography, can be read with understanding, even by those who have never visited Paris.
1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 June 630/2The book promises to become a midwife's guide to the birth of a new discipline, which one expects will be inelegantly dubbed ‘psychogeography’, rather than ‘geopsychology’.
1890 Billings 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.
1811–31 *Psychognosy . [ see psychics 1]
1682 H. More Annot. Glanvill's Lux. O. 194There being nothing absurd in Psychopyrism but so far forth as it includes *Psycho-Hylism, and makes the soul material.
Ibid. 193There is no more harshness in calling him Psychopyrist, than if he had called him *Psycho-Hylist.
1868 W. Cory Lett. &Jrnls. (1897) 229There is that *psycholatry in it which is characteristic of the writer.
1878 Max Müller Lect. Orig. & GrowthRelig. ii. 116Psycholatry. Lastly, great reverence is paid to the spirits of the departed.
1886 H. Maudsley Nat. Causes & Supernat. Seemings 351Theologian and philosopher alike exhibit the strained functions of a sort of *psycholepsy.
Ibid. 352His success in such *psycholeptic sleights of thought.
1925 E. & C. Paul tr. Janet'sPsychol. Healing I. x. 558Individuals in whom psychological tension is unstable, suffer from sudden relaxations of this tension, succumb to psycholeptic crises.
1940 H. G. Baynes Mythol. of Soul xi. 882We could then regard the whole drama as a psycholeptic crisis with its characteristic feeling-symptom of the end of the world.
1961 Kalinowsky & Hoch Somatic Treatments in Psychiatry ii. 8Delay has proposed the following classification of the new drugs based upon their predominant action. (A) Psycholeptics or Sedatives... (C) Psychodysleptics or psychotomimetics.
1971 Zirkle & Kaiser in A. Burger Med. Chem. (ed. 3) II. lv. 1412/1The antipsychotic agents were originally given such names as tranquilizers.., ataraxics.., psycholeptics, and psychosedatives.
1962 D. D. Jackson in Jrnl. Nerv. & MentalDis. CXXXV. 436/1More accurately, perhaps, we should speak of *psycholytic drugs given by psychosogenic therapists.
1963 R. A. Sandison in R. Crocket et al. Hallucinogenic Drugs 34This 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.
1964 D. F. Downing in M. Gordon Psychopharm. Agents I. xiii. 606In this context they are frequently known as psycholytic drugs because of their power to loosen the psyche. [ sc. psychotomimetic agents]
1974 Arieti & Brody Amer. Handbk. Psychiatry (ed. 2) III. 425/1Psycholytic therapy, this technique consists of a series of drug sessions in which small doses of LSD..are given to a number of patients in an outpatient setting. These sessions are associated with individual or group therapy.
1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media xxxi. 308Our children are striving to carry over to the printed page the all-involving sensory mandate of the TV image. With perfect *psycho-mimetic skill, they carry out the commands of the TV image.
1967 WHO Chron. XXI. 464/2Psychodysleptics, also called ‘hallucinogens’, ‘psychomimetics’, or ‘psychodelics’, are compounds that produce abnormal mental phenomena, particularly in the cognitive and perceptual spheres.
1969 Listener 28 Aug. 295/2 Grand Hotel, The Age of Innocence, Dr. Finlay's Casebook..all inextricably jumbled together into a deliriously psychomimetic paradise.
1974 S. Arieti Amer. Handbk. Psychiatry (ed. 2) I. 67/2Exaggerated expectations about the uncritical use of ‘psychomimetics’ (mainly LSD 25) in the treatment of mental disorders and especially about the power of some drugs to enlarge the field of consciousness and provide new philosophical and religious insights are unrealistic.
1904 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 497Their *psychomonism asserts..one thing only exists and that is my own mind.
1925 W. J. H. Sprott tr. Kretschmer's Physique & Character ix. 134The *psychomotility of the cycloid is even and adequate to the stimulus, and motor expressions and movements are well rounded, fluid, and natural.
1934 E. B. Strauss tr. Kretschmer'sText-bk. Med. Psychol. iv. 43In a mild degree traces of these Parkinsonian features often typify the psychomotility of advanced old age.
1943 H. Read Educ. through Art iv. 79Within the main cycloid and schizoid groups, there are a considerable number of psychaesthetic variants and a considerable degree of psychomotility.
1969 H. E. King in Zubin & Shagass Neurobiol. Aspects ofPsychopathol. vi. 99 (heading)Psychomotility: a dimension of behavior disorder.
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xx. 164Thus we should escape the responsibility of explaining, by falling back on the everlasting inscrutability of the *psycho-neural nexus.
1923 J. S. Huxley Ess. Biologist iv. 134The mind, or shall we say the psycho-neural organization.
1949 . [ see hypnoanalysis]
1969 Word 1967 XXIII. 469 Nor can we yet identify all of the psychoneural factors which enter into the final stage of speech perception, ‘understanding’.
1954 M. Reiss in Jrnl. MentalSci. 701The influence of the various treatments on a *psycho-neuro-endocrine cycle.
1972 Science 9 June 1115/3 The relationships of such psychoneuroendocrine studies to the clinical observations on man are dealt with in papers by Abrams.
1954 M. Reiss in Jrnl. MentalSci. C. 687Such efforts are unavoidable if progress is to be made in *psycho-neuro-endocrinologic problems.
1971 ― in D. H. Ford Influence of Hormones on Nervous System p. xix,Our association was named *Psychoneuro⁓endocrinological because it emphasizes not only the beginning but also the end of the most important patho⁓physiological vicious circle in the body.
1972 Science 9 June 1115/2 A group of scientists..have organized an International Society of *Psychoneuroendocrinology.
1978 Nature 14 Dec. p. xii. ( Advt. ),Psychoneuroendocrinology is an attempt to provide the essential interdisciplinary approach to research in human reproduction.
1921 Edin. Rev. Jan. 61In London the *Psycho-Neurological Society has been formed..for the study and discussion of problems in psychotherapy.
1928 H. P. Weld Psychol. as Science viii. 156 (heading)Psychoneurological theories.
1865 R. T. Stothard ( title)*Psychoneurology: A Treatise on the Mental Faculties, as governed and developed by the Animal Nature.
1895 in Syd.Soc. Lex.
1943 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry C. 181/2Apart from the therapeutic implications of the transsection of the anterior thalamic radiations, the method has important implications for experimentation in clinical neurology and in psychoneurology.
1803 J. Stewart Opus Maximum Title-p.,*Psyconomy: or, the science of the moral powers.
1841 Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. II. 76Psychonomy, or the laws of mind, comprising the study of Languages, Metaphysics, Jurisprudence and Religion.
1865 R. Beamish ( title)The Psychonomy of the Hand; or, the Hand an Index of Mental Development.
1885 Landois & Stirling Text-bk. HumanPhysiol. II. xiii. 921The *psycho-optic centre,..according to Munk, embraces the outer convex part of the occipital lobe of the dog's brain.
1937 Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry XXXVII. 1173Both kinds of movement belong to the so-called psycho-optic reflexes because, being produced by visual stimuli, they are performed more or less instinctively.
1954 S. Duke-Elder Parsons'Dis. Eye (ed. 12). xxvii. 462The 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.
1883 Clouston Clin. Lect. MentalDis. i. 18When the morbid condition is one of mental enfeeblement it is called Dementia or Amentia... It might be called *Psychoparesis.
1892 *Psychopetal . [ see psychocentral above]
1964 Dis. Nerv. System XXV. 233/2The effects of discontinuing *psychopharmaceuticals in a large group of long-term schizophrenic patients.
1965 New Scientist 18 Mar. 719/1 So far medical researchers have largely had to rely on a patient's behaviour pattern to assess the effects of the so-called psychopharmaceutical drugs—those which can be used nowadays with considerable effect against certain types of nervous disorders.
1969 Sci. News 20 Dec. 581One advantage of doxepin is its apparently low toxicity compared to other psycho⁓pharmaceuticals.
1966 New Statesman 18 Feb. 243/2 ( Advt. ),ESP *Psycho-philosopher, having evolved new theory concerning influence on environment at a distance and through thought, seeks volunteers to co-operate in test.
1960 IRE Trans. Electronic Computers IX. 524/1The pragmatic philosophy of C. S. Peirce helped save much of philosophy from the sterilizing effect of *psycho⁓philosophy.
1876 A. Blackwell Kardec's Medium'sBk. 447*Psychophony, the communication of spirits by the voice of a speaking medium.
1922 Joyce Ulysses 659Heliotherapy, *psychophysicotherapeutics, osteopathic surgery.
1921 Q. Rev. Oct. 397The exaggeration..would..have made its dogmatic definition sooner or later inevitable, but Manning's championship of it assisted its appearance at the *psycho-political moment.
1934 H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. II. ix. 798This psycho-political autobiography.
1948 J. Towster Polit. Power inU.S. S.R. iv. 57While 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. 73The 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.
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’.
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.
1744 ‘J. Philander’ ( title)The Golden Calf, the Idol Worship,..with Account of the *Psychoptic Looking Glass, lately invented by the author.
1682 *Psychopyrism . [ see psycho-hylism]
1681 H. More Answ. Lett. Psychopyrist To Rdr., in Glanvill's Sadducismus (ed. 2),The *Psychopyrists..make the Essence or Substance of all created Spirits to be Fire.
1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 338The doubtful relation of the optic thalamus to *psycho-reflex mimetic movements.
1903 Myers Hum. Personality I. 263,I propose to use the Greek word ψυχορραγῶ..‘to let the soul break loose’, and from which I form the words *psychorrhagy and *psychorrhagic.
Ibid. 270A clairvoyant excursion (of a more serious type than the mere psychorrhagies already described).
Ibid. II. 75Those phantasms of the living which I have already classed as psychorrhagic.
1902 W. M. Alexander Demonic Possession inN.T. i. 33They are ‘half spirits’ and are therefore possessed of a semi-sensuous or *psycho-sarcous constitution. [ demons]
1885 Myers in Proc. Soc. Psych. Research May 61Somnambulism, double-consciousness, epilepsy, insanity itself, are all of them natural *psychoscopes.
1886 Gurney, etc. Phantasms of Living I.Introd. 71The first attempts of his rude psychoscopes to give precision and actuality to thought will grope among ‘beggarly elements’.
Ibid. I. 463If Baillarger did not carry his view of hallucinations to this length, the whole development exists by implication in the term by which he described them—*psycho-sensorial.
1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 775In those patients who experience such *psycho-sensory auræ there is a strong tendency to mental derangement.
1910 W. A. Turner ThreeLect. Epilepsy 25He has described the psycho-motor, psycho-sensory, psycho-visual, and psycho-auditory centre in close relation to the motor, sensory, visual, and auditory centres.
1947 H. C. Elliott Textbk. NervousSyst. xix. 238/1Caudal to its upper part lies..the psychosensory region. [ sc. that of the sensory cortex]
1959 S. Duke-Elder Parsons'Dis. Eye (ed. 13) iv. 38The 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.
1903 W. J. Greenstreet tr. Duprat (title)Morals: A Treatise on the *Psycho-Sociological Bases of Ethics.
1928 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. Nov. 447Knowing these , we could follow their lead into greater knowledge of phenomena of a psycho⁓sociological nature. [ laws of suggestion]
1970 Touraine & Pécaut in I. L. Horowitz Masses inLat. Amer. iii. 67The resulting normative and psychosociological changes are analyzed..as a function of the change in values judged necessary to attain the industrialized state. [ in the social system]
1966 Punch 9 Mar. 332/3 Those big black career advertisements and their rich esoterica about openings for crystallographers, systems analysts and industrial *psycho-sociologists.
1908 Science 10 July 54 *Psycho⁓sociology.
1957 R. K. Merton Student-Physician 53A middle ground which has been described as social psychology (or, by some, psycho-sociology).
1973 Screen Spring/Summer 151 Various revelatory and therapeutic methods belonging to modern psycho-sociology.
1820 L. Hunt IndicatorNo. 22 (1822) I. 176A part of wisdom which our modern *psycho⁓sophists are so apt to forget.
1913 J. Murray Ocean x. 228We 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 10To these might be added Mind—the Psychosphere, studied by psychologists, anthropologists and other social scientists.
1975 O. L. Reiser Cosmic Humanism & World Unity iii. 97The Psychosphere may be regarded as a psychic-magnetic environment, an ‘auric field’, beyond the Van Allen Radiation Belt.
1961 Musser & O'Neill Mod. Pharmacol. & Therapeutics (ed. 2) xix. 361Prior to the development of these newer drugs, called *psycho-stimulants or psychic energizers, apathetic and depressed patients were treated with caffeine and the amphetamines.
1963 Wall St. Jrnl. 21 Jan. 12/4The three areas in which the largest number of new agents are being investigated were psycho-stimulants, broad spectrum antibiotics and cholesterol-reducing agents.
1966 J. D. P. Graham Pharmacol. iv. 26/2This drug is given to mentally depressed patients. It may therefore be termed a psychostimulant drug. [ sc. dexamphetamine sulphate]
1967 . [ see psychodysleptic above]
1971 T. A. Ban in O. Vinăr et al. Advances in Neuropsychopharmacol. 212Conflict tolerance in humans may also increase under the influence of psychostimulants in general.
1973 Proc. R.Soc. Med. LXVI. 359/2Would-be psychiatrists are taught to describe, define and treat disembodied *psychosyndromes instead of learning to apply modern investigative science to finding causes.
1976 Smythies & Corbett Psychiatry vii. 113Non-specific endocrine psychosyndromes occur with apathy, depression and lability of mood.
1919 C. E. Long in M. K. Bradby Psycho-Anal. p. vi,We aim at a reconstruction of life which can only be conceived as a *psycho-synthesis.
1924 J. Riviere tr. Freud'sColl. Papers II. xxxiv. 395The 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 all the instinctual trends which before had been split off and barred away from it. The psycho-synthesis is thus achieved during analytic treatment without our intervention.
1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood 9The mental break-down of Gemini..bring the methods of a leading psycho⁓analyst and modern psychosynthesis into the story. [ sic]
1975 M. & N. Samuels Seeing with Mind's Eye iii. 37Currently, visualization is being used in a number of different psychotherapeutic techniques—including..directed day⁓dreams, Psychosynthesis, and behaviorist desensitization.
1944 H. G. Wells '42 to '44 172What 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.
1940 ― All Aboard for Ararat ii. 80The core of the new world must be (listen to these words!) Atheist, Creative, *Psycho⁓synthetic.
1842 Marg. Fuller in Mem. (1862) I. 246It would seem to approach the faith of some of my friends here, which has been styled *Psychotheism.
1910 *Psycho-visual . [ see psycho-sensoryadj. above]
1969 G. C. Dickinson Maps & Air Photographs iv. 63The 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.
1877 Le Conte Elem. Geol. (1879) 269The *Psychozoic era, or era of Mind.
Ibid. 561The Neolithic commences the Psychozoic era, or reign of man.
psycho-
word-forming element meaning "mind, mental; spirit, unconscious," from Greek psykho-, combining form of psykhe (see psyche). It also was used to form compounds in Greek, such as psychopates "soul-beguiling."
ORIGIN: Greek psukho- , formed as psyche noun -o-
☞ psycho
psycho-
— see psych-
— see psych-
psycho-psych- (before a vowel)
Prefix
- Forms terms relating to the soul, the mind, or to psychology. 2012, Richard Overy, ‘The Mind of Evil’, Literary Review, issue 399:
- This endeavour forms the core of Daniel Pick's fascinating study of the mobilisation of psychoanalysis not only for the Allied war effort, but for a postwar world momentarily seduced by the idea that war and violence might be eridicated by a bit of psycho-science.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”)