Sentence examples for psychic function from inspiring English sources

As the national narrative shifts from the war on terror to the specter of decline, the uniform performs another psychic function.

By contrast, logical evidence and universal validity are characteristics possessed by logical thinking "to a higher degree than by any other psychic function" (L I: 78).

This integrative psychic function was perceived by those experiencing it to be either the direct voice of a god; the direct voice of the leader of the society, the king; or the direct voice of the dead king, the king in the afterlife.

Just what the nature of this pull is, and how it has come to condition our understanding of ourselves and our psychic functioning, is what I wish to unpick.

Is our western world affected by new modes of psychic functioning and transformations of the social dynamics?

We will show that these two theoretical approaches are less opposed than complementary because they both state that external reality has a major influence on the psychic functioning of the concerned subjects.

Bodily Pain may be considered to represent a measure of the discomfort induced by repeated pain and Mental Health as the inability to feel that one has a healthy psychic functioning.

He has no word for the soul as a whole and uses psychê, which serves this function in Plato and Aristotle, for the psychic functions shared by humans and animals.

This leads this system to give a central role to the appraisal of the juvenile delinquents' personality, that is to say to their psychic functioning; any judicial response has then to give a central space to educational and protective concerns assuming that there are no delinquent conducts that are not the expression of an educational and a psychic difficulty.

Then the logic behind this assumption is not as much nosographical as it is psychopathological (with reference to a phenomenological or psychodynamic theory); the most important is not then the disorder diagnostic label but a comprehensive perspective addressing the subject's psychic functioning pattern.

The hypothesis that schizophrenia (SZ) is a condition characterized by abnormal brain integration can be traced back to Bleuler, who emphasized that a splitting of the psychic functions ('loosening of associations') is a core problem in SZ [1].