"psychological identity" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to one's sense of self and how they perceive and understand their own thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. It can also describe how one's unique psychological makeup influences their behavior and relationships. Example: "As a psychologist, I am interested in studying the development of psychological identities in adolescents and how they shape their behaviors and experiences."
The "Pearl" focussed on the issue of Christ's psychological identity.
Victimhood, in this series, is not merely a philosophical idea or a psychological identity, but also a condition open to variations of aesthetic style.
He mocks his own shifting psychological identity, giving each of the fans at a book signing a different story about his background as he autographs his book for them.
The hubbub of shifting events and perspectives is Frayn's sleight of hand, and it allows him to disguise the unsettling issue of psychological identity beneath the flashy spectacle of history.
The disaster imposes itself upon the physical and psychological identity of a community until a reversal occurs in the traditional process of geographic nomenclature and the event appropriates the name rather than the other way round – place and disaster become synonymous.
Panels of psychiatrists are hashing out just such questions, and their answers — to be published in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — will have consequences for insurance reimbursement, research and individuals' psychological identity for years to come.
This occurs during the early university years, when young people are establishing, testing and adjusting new psychological identities [ 3].
As a matter of fact, numerous studies across countries have revealed that people of all economic backgrounds tend to see themselves as being positioned in the middle class (Evans et al. 1992; Evans and Kelley 2004; Adair 2001; Hout 2008) and subjective social status is more of an indicator of social-psychological identity (Wright 1997; Adair 2001).
Scientists always understood the limitations of sex tests, even if sports administrators struggled to accept them: in particular there was Finnish geneticist Albert de la Chappelle, who fought against the IOC's sex testing regime of the 1980s, promoting a more complicated way of determining eligibility that would consider hormonal, physiological and psychological sexual identity.
Or King Lear, who endures a storm that is both literal and psychological, whose identity crumbles and words fall away, and who dies deluded (when Ian McKellen played him a few years ago, he dropped his trousers and stood on the stage befuddled, stripped down to a "bare, forked animal").
Counter-examples to this process appear in cancer types with strong psychological and identity components.
