The whole idea of psychometrics was that mental tests are a measurement of a psychical property of the brain, analogous to taking a blood sample.
Hence, loosely speaking, the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real can be thought of as the three fundamental dimensions of psychical subjectivity à la Lacan.
However, while the SF-36 detected changes only almost from the 'physical-like' dimensions (physical functioning, bodily pain, and psychical component summary), the MusiQoL identified EDSS changes from 'non-physical' dimensions, such as relationships with healthcare system and sentimental and sexual life.
First, as one of Lacan's three basic, essential registers, the Imaginary is an intrinsic, unavoidable dimension of the existences of speaking psychical subjects; just as an analysis cannot (and should not try to) rid the analysand of his/her unconscious, so too is it neither possible nor desirable to liquidate the illusions of this register.
The control group of health participants had the best indices of quality of life, which seemed to be the least affected by the presence of physical pain only (LBP); quality of life diminished more in the presence of psychological disruption (PTSD), while it diminished even more in some dimensions in patients who suffered from both psychical and physical problems (PTSD and LBP).
Psychology was new; so was psychical research.
Thereby, according to some, he initiated psychical research.
His plan: to pit psychical research against psychoanalysis.
His interest in psychical research also dates from that period.
The secretion associated with emotional upset is called psychical weeping.
