And touching that psychological divide was politically perilous.
"Once you have crossed the river, you have crossed the huge psychological divide," Mr. Finkelpearl said.
Mr. Johanns said the lack of direct air service between cities in eastern and western Nebraska had created a psychological divide.
Mr. Brodsky's district, the 86th Assembly District, straddles the Cross Westchester Expressway, or Interstate 287, which, to many minds, is the county's Mason-Dixon line, the psychological divide between south and north.
His remarks offer the fullest explanation to date of Iran's position and bring into sharp focus the psychological divide that still separates the two countries after two decades without diplomatic relations, which were broken after the Islamic revolution and the hostage-taking at the American Embassy in Tehran.
As a result, they have widened the psychological divide with Israel and nurtured the perception that Israel is and will remain an implacable foe, leaving little room for reconciliation and acutely undercutting their aspiration for statehood.
"I feel like we rely on them," says Katy. "Where are we getting all our funding from?" Leaving Canvey, I drive across one of the two bridges that span a narrow creek that separates the island from the mainland – a small geographical division but an expansive psychological divide.
This instrument is designed to enquire about 25 items on psychological attributes divided into 5 sub-scales of 5 items to measure conduct problems, hyperactivity-inattention, emotional symptoms, peer problems, and pro-social behavior of children between 4 17 years [ 30, 31].
This questionnaire consists of 21 items divided into various domains: psychological (11 items, divided into anxiety and depression subscales), somatic (7 items), vasomotor symptoms (2 items) and sexual (1 item).
This divides psychological distress into distinct typologies with unique defining features (e.g. "depressed", "anxious", or "healthy") (APA., 1994).
