"psychological obstacle" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to an internal struggle or difficulty that one has to overcome in order to achieve a goal. For example, you could say: "She was determined to make a career change, but she was faced with a psychological obstacle that she had to overcome first."
"But there's the psychological obstacle of a new treatment coming from the former Soviet Union.
The greater psychological obstacle, though, is that there's still no effective cure or treatment for Alzheimer's.
There's also the view that a major psychological obstacle to ending the boycott is Cincinnati's odd penchant for self-subversion.
Does chasing another title provide a psychological advantage for drivers or is it more of a psychological obstacle?
Truman's principal reason for deciding to drop the bomb on Japan was to bring the war in the Pacific to a quick end, but his secondary one was to erect a psychological obstacle to any Soviet plans for postwar expansion.
But upon joining the Jets in 2008, the final year of the Mangini era, Woody sensed that they were "paralyzed by the mystique of New England," a psychological obstacle they did not overcome, he said, until Ryan arrived.
DiDonato makes it clear to students that a singing career is strewn with technical and psychological obstacles.
It's a way of being flexible, of breaking through some of the psychological obstacles that keep us from concluding an agreement".
(My column last week dealt with some of the psychological obstacles that make people cling to the status quo, even in the face of seemingly preferable alternatives).
It may also have helped Murray, an intelligent and combustible player, that the Olympic tournament reshuffled the deck and the psychological obstacles.
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