The phrase "mental workings" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the process of thinking, reasoning, and decision making in a person's mind. Example: "The therapist used cognitive behavioral therapy to help me understand my destructive thought patterns and change my mental workings for the better."
Conan Doyle wanted to write stories in which all the ingredients for solving the crime were there from the beginning, and in which the drama would be, as in the Poe stories that he cited as precedents, in the mental workings of his ideal ratiocinator.
Soon──very soon──I came to believe it was something in my mental workings, something not of my physique but something of my psyche.
But the film, instead of dealing with the headlines, examines the mental inner workings and the intricate emotional dynamics between the two attackers, who were father and "adoptive" son in real life.
"The joint I'd made was a trope on mental mechanisms the flexible workings of thought, a model of mental gymnastics, the brain as an adjustable tool.
Stratton aimed at this goal via a simple and generally applicable look at the basic workings of mental life.
Kate Howard was brought in to review the workings of the mental health team responsible for Mr Philpotts' care.
To probe the inner workings of our mental clock, University of California (UC), Los Angeles, neuroscientist Dean Buonomano and Uma Karmarkar, now a post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, focused on an idea called state-dependency.
Isaacs' description of the centre's inner workings highlight the mental effect of detention "criminals were given a sentence to serve: these men were not even given that," Isaacs writes.
The cast was dominated by Kurt Streit in the title role, technically superb and dramatically exacting in his portrayal of a man whose mental stability is eroded by the workings of conscience.
TUCSON — Unlike many of her fellow governors, Jan Brewer of Arizona knows well the inner workings of her state's mental health system: her son has schizophrenia and was committed to a state hospital more than 20 years ago after being found not guilty by reason of insanity of sexual assault and kidnapping.
Developments in imaging technology, genetics, brain chemistry and computing are promising fresh insights into the workings of the mind and mental illness.
