Sentence examples for psychological means from inspiring English sources

With mass hysteria people have to believe they are ill and collectively communicate that illness through psychological means".

Before you read my book, had you heard the term 'gaslighting'?" I had: gaslighting means, "To manipulate someone by psychological means into questioning their own sanity".

The policing and crime bill that has just gone through the House of Commons will make it an offence to pay for sex with someone "subjected to force by psychological means and the exploitation of vulnerability".

Another important group of treatments is the psychotherapies, which seek to treat mental disorders by psychological means and which involve verbal communication between the patient and a trained person in the context of a therapeutic interpersonal relationship between them.

As things are arranged in a Friendly production, the equipment can be operated with so little wasted motion that its obtrusiveness is reduced to a minimum; on the other hand, its presence can, if necessary, be used as a psychological means of prodding the man being interviewed into greater communicativeness.

To suggest that they are identical to the memory is to confuse the psychological means by which the memory occurs with the content of the memory belief.

Significant impairment is indicated by scores greater than 1 standard deviation (SD) above the mean; scores were standardized using normative means and SD values for the physical (mean = 1.73, SD = 0.45) and psychological (mean = 1.98, SD = 0.50) HRQoL domains, from our earlier paper [ 39].

Psychological Health EURR mean = 51.4, NE mean = 52.5, not significant) and Relationships (EUR mean = 53.6, NE mean = 53.7, not significant) section scores were not significantly different between the EUR and NE groups.

Their psychological profile means they respond to more activity-based interventions.

It's on the long side, and could have benefited from some editorial fat-trimming in places, but it's enjoyably well written and the winning combination of intricate plotting and psychological depth means that the reader's patience will be amply rewarded.

"The boom in psychological thrillers means that readers have gone from characters we sympathise with or relate to complicated, difficult and not necessarily likeable heroines and this interest is now starting to merge with a continued enthusiasm for historical fiction," she explains.