And the diagnosis should be made on a high professional level, the so-called expert level: it should include severity of the disease, whether the patient has some mental defects, how much his psychic functioning reduced and so on.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The striking local circuit and functional arrangements between adjacent and separated pyramidal and fast-spiking interneurons support a microcolumnar functional architecture in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for spatial memory fields and hence for psychic functions, similar to that found in other areas of cortex for sensory receptive fields".
All groups lasted for 90 minutes, except the psychodynamic group (60 minutes) and had the following characteristics: Group psychodynamic psychotherapy provided opportunities for each member to learn about themselves and their interpersonal and intra-psychic functioning, by creating a safe atmosphere that encouraged interaction and invited reflection.
As the national narrative shifts from the war on terror to the specter of decline, the uniform performs another psychic function.
