psych-, psycho-, -psyche, -psychic, -psychical, -psychically + (Greek: mind, spirit, consciousness; mental processes; the human soul; breath of life)
A prefix that is normally used with elements of Greek origin, psych- affects the meanings of hundreds of words.
Etymologically, this element includes such meanings as, breath, to breathe, life, soul, spirit, mind, consciousness; and literally, "that which breathes".
neuropsychopathic
Pertaining to diseased states of the nervous and mental functions.
neuropsychopathy
An emotional illness of neurologic and functional origin.
neuropsychopharmacology
1. A branch of medical science combining neuropharmacology and psychopharmacology.
2. The study of the effect of drugs and medicines on psychological processes.
An interdisciplinary science related to psychopharmacology (how drugs affect the mind) and fundamental neuroscience. It entails research of mechanisms of neuropathology, pharmacodynamics (drug action), psychiatric illness, and states of consciousness. These studies are instigated at the detailed level involving neurotransmission or neuroreceptor activity, bio-chemical processes, and neural circuitry. neuropsychosis
A neurotic condition in which certain features characteristic of a psychosis can be recognized.
noopsyche
1. Mental or reasoning processes.
2. A reference to two separate psychic factors:
(1) The noopsyche, comprising all purely intellectual processes.
(2) The thymopsyche, made up of affective processes. noothymopsychic
omphalopsychic
One of a sect of quietists who practiced gazing at the navel as a means of inducing hypnotic reverie.
orthopsychiatry, orthopsychiatric
1. A branch of psychiatry concerned especially with the prevention of mental or behavioural disorders.
2. A cross-disciplinary science combining child psychiatry, pediatrics, developmental psychology, and family care devoted to the discovery, prevention, and treatment of mental and psychological disorders in children and adolescents.
paleopsychic, paleopsychology
A reference to the assumed (prehistoric) origins of behavior patterns in humans.
panpsychism
In philosophy (also called pampsychism), the theory that all matter, or all nature, is itself psychical, or has a psychical aspect; that atoms and molecules, as well as plants and animals, have a rudimentary life of sensation, feeling, and impulse that bears the same relation to their movements just as the psychical life of human beings does to their objective activities.
parapsychology, parapsychological
1. The science or study of phenomena that lie outside the sphere of orthodox psychology.
2. The study of extrasensory perception, such as thought transference (telepathy) and clairvoyance.
3. The branch of psychology dealing with the study of psychic phenomena; such as, extrasensory perception, clairvoyance, and telepathy, that appear to fall beyond the scope of physical law.
pathopsychology
The psychology of mental diseases.
pathopsychosis
A psychosis involving bodily functions; such as, those arising from organic diseases, including brain tumors, encephalitis, etc.
pharmacopsychosis
1. A psychosis caused by or related to taking a drug.
2. Any psychosis due to alcohol, drugs, or poisons.
3. Toxic psychosis due to drugs or poisons.
physiopsychic
Pertaining to both mind and body.
Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving the "mind, mental" word units:
anima-;
anxi-;
deliri-;
hallucina-;
menti-;
moro-;
noo-;
nous;
phreno-;
thymo-2.
Word units related to breath and breathe:
hal-;
pneo-;
pneumato-;
pneumo-;
spiro.
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