psych-, psycho-, -psyche, -psychic, -psychical, -psychically +

Denoting ideas or actions originating below the level of consciousness.

Denoting the psychological dynamics that occur inside the mind without reference to the individual's exchanges with other people or events. Synonym: intrapersonal.

Psychology in its relation to medicine.

That which is beyond the sphere of ordinary psychology; pertaining to metapsychics.

A name applied to a science or study of certain phenomena that are beyond the scheme of orthodox psychology.

1. A systematic attempt to discern and describe what lies beyond the empirical facts and laws of psychology; such as, the relations between body and mind, or concerning the place of the mind in the universe.
2. In psychoanalysis, or psychoanalytic metapsychology, psychology concerning the fundamental assumptions of the freudian theory of the mind, that entail five points of view: 3. A name given to speculative inquiry regarding the ultimate nature of the mind and its functions which cannot be studied experimentally.
4. A term applied to theories about the origin, structure, and functions of the mind that extend beyond the empirical laws of psychology.

The supposed psychic action of one mind upon another.

1. Transmigration of the soul; passage of the soul from one body to another; chiefly, the transmigration of the soul of a human being or animal at or after death into a new body (whether of the same or a different species), a tenet of the Pythagoreans and certain Eastern religions; especially, Buddhism.
2. Etymology: from Late Latin, from Greek metempsychosis which came from meta-, "change" + en, "in" + psyche, "soul".

One who believes in metempsychosis.

Hatred or weariness of living; a morbid disgust with life.

The theory that all souls (or the souls of all mankind) are one; the unity of souls asserted by this theory.

Synonymous with monomania: partial insanity, in which the morbid mental state is restricted to one subject, the patient being of sound judgment and appropriate affect on all other subjects; an impulsive act without an apparent motive.

An intense interest in clouds.

1. Psychiatry that relates mental or emotional disturbance to disordered brain function; neurology and psychiatry as a single discipline.
2. The specialty dealing with both organic and psychic disorders of the nervous system; this is an earlier term for psychiatry.

1. The field of study concerned with the relationship between behavior and the mind on the one hand, and the nervous system; especially, the brain, on the other; neurological psychology.
2. A specialty of psychology concerned with the study of the relationships between the brain and behavior, including the use of psychological tests and assessment techniques to diagnose specific cognitive and behavioral deficits and to prescribe rehabilitation strategies for their remediation.