Category: P

  • Psychic structures

    In psychoanalytic theory, hypothesized mental structures that help to explain different aspects of behavior.  

  • Psychic contactlessness

    According to Reich, that state of detachment that comes about when one avoids relating emotionally to others.  

  • Psychic changes

    Changes in consciousness or mood.  

  • Psychiatric status schedule

    A standardized questionnaire in which the interviewer rates the subject’s responses based on a predetermined scale of response types.  

  • Psychiatric social workers

    A person who deals with the interpersonal relationships of the patient.  

  • Psychiatric evaluation

    Medical, psychological, and sociological data used in the diagnosis of mental disorders.  

  • Psychasthenia

    Obsessive-compulsive reaction. Any psychoneurosis other than hysteria. Psychoneurosis characterised by fears and phobias. An obsolete term for a group of neuroses including phobias, anxiety states, and obsessions. The psychiatrist P. Janet divided the neuroses into hysterias and psychasthenias.  

  • Psuedomycelium

    A collection of elongated blastocytes that fail to separate and form what resembles mycelium.  

  • Psoas

    Pertaining to the loin. Either of two pairs of muscles in the groin, psoas major and psoas minor, which help to move the hip joint. Either of two muscles of the abdomen and pelvis that flex the trunk and rotate the thigh. A muscle in the groin that acts jointly with the iliacus muscle to…

  • Psittacosis

    A viral disease of birds transmitted to humans. A disease of parrots which can be transmitted to humans. It is similar to typhoid fever, but atypical pneumonia is present. Symptoms include fever, diarrhoea and distension of the abdomen. Infectious disease, caused by the bacterium Chlamydia psittaci, transmitted to humans by infected birds, especially parrots; it…