psychopharmacology
— Noun
– English
~ the study of drugs that affect the mind
psychophysicist
— Noun
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~ a psychologist trained in psychophysics
psychophysics
— Noun
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~ the branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects
psychophysiology
— Noun
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~ the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes
psychopomp
— Noun
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~ a conductor of souls to the afterworld; "Hermes was their psychopomp"
Psychopsis krameriana
— Noun
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~ orchid of South and Central America having flowers similar to but smaller than Psychopsis papilio; sometimes placed in genus Oncidium
Psychopsis papilio
— Noun
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~ orchid of South America and Trinidad having large yellow and reddish-brown flowers; sometimes placed in genus Oncidium
Psychopsis
— Noun
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~ epiphytic orchids of Central and South America formerly included in genus Oncidium
psychosexual development
— Noun
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~ (psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage
psychosexual
— Adjective
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~ of or relating to the mental or emotional attitudes about sexuality
psychosexuality
— Noun
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~ the mental representation of sexual activities
psychosis
— Noun
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~ any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
polyneuritic psychosis
— Noun
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~ dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact
psychosomatic disorder
— Noun
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~ a mental disorder that causes somatic symptoms
psychosomatic
— Adjective
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~ used of illness or symptoms resulting from neurosis
psychosurgery
— Noun
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~ brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems