Sentence examples for psychical conflicts from inspiring English sources

Others, such as Sawrey, Conger, and Turrell (1956), argued rather that it was stress from psychical conflicts that were causal, and their experiments which posed behavioral conflicts between eating and punishment also showed increased ulcers in the conflicted rats.

This portrait of the ego-as-object is at the heart of Lacan's lifelong critical polemics against Anglo-American ego psychology, with the ego psychologists seeking to strengthen their patients' egos by appealing to supposed autonomous and "conflict-free" sides of these psychical agencies.

As in later writings on psychical research, Münsterberg tried to stress the essential difference between scientific psychology and psychical research on the one hand, and between psychical research, which he constantly conflated with vulgar spiritualistic belief systems, and true religion on the other.

In discarding the seduction hypothesis, Freud not only discovers the domain of fantasy and psychical reality, but he also paves the way for considering the energetics of the libido, the intrapsychic conflict that is intrinsic to human being, and the idea of responsibility for the dissonances of desire and the skirmishes that shape a life and its patterns.

Psychology was new; so was psychical research.

His plan: to pit psychical research against psychoanalysis.

His interest in psychical research also dates from that period.

Confronting his own psychical depths on canvas is his ethos.

Thereby, according to some, he initiated psychical research.

The secretion associated with emotional upset is called psychical weeping.

And I found the original documents of a psychical research society at Cambridge, the Ghost Club.