(n.) A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.
Example Sentences:
(1) In summary, the development of programs in the community serving the severely and chronically mentally ill is a political-sociological activity requiring a detailed working knowledge of the community to be involved, a clear understanding of objectives and specific agreements related to the program to be developed, adequate and stable funding, appropriate supportive and ancillary resources, significant bureaucratic skill and flexibility, adequate time for appropriate community education and feedback from key community leaders, a certain amount of clairvoyance in anticipating difficulties and unexpected problems, an immense amount of perseverance and, finally--and probably as important as any other single element--timing and luck.
(2) She is currently working with a clairvoyant who tells her to do certain things, go to certain places.
(3) Carl Jung displayed all five of these features in his life and psychotherapy, including dreams and waking fantasies in childhood; the use of active imagination in the induction of an ASC; contact with forces, knowledge, and power of the unconscious; a dual "personality," and the dialogue with the inner world--the unconscious, the realm of the archetypes; the use of these discoveries to counsel, advise, and heal; and psychic abilities, such as clairvoyance and out-of-body experiences.
(4) mystics, conjurors and clairvoyants, set in France and England during the late 1920s, Magic In The Moonlight harks back to the lamest titles in the Woody filmography.
(5) Guido procrastinates, retreats into his messy private life with wife and mistress, goes to a nightclub clairvoyant who makes him recall his childhood and he fantasises about keeping a harem of women at bay with a whip, or about being hounded to death by desperate producers and a hostile press.
(6) Nor does it take a clairvoyant to imagine that Blair thinks Miliband has aligned himself with the wrong crowd (Blair would never, for example, have been seen as leader on a TUC demo or speaking at the Durham Miner's Gala ).
(7) They were intended, cruelly, to entertain with their abnormal physical condition, but deeper and mysterious qualities were attributed to dwarves, as they were to Lear’s Fool and later to clowns: of intellectual prowess, clairvoyance and wisdom in the hollow laughter that ridicules power, and watches the march of time and age as a leveller of men.
(8) For as long as Gibson has been a writer, he has had to remind people not to regard him as a clairvoyant.
(9) Photograph: Lisa Ricciotti It is the work of Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti , a tempestuous and provocative iconoclast described by designer Philippe Starck as "a clairvoyant, untamable wild animal".
(10) The film's US distributors Sony Pictures Classics filled in lots of the blanks on10 July, when they released a long-form synopsis , explaining that Firth plays a stage magician who is on a mission to debunk professional clairvoyant Stone.
(11) Tom Binns's masterstroke is to couple his Montfort character with actual clairvoyant ability, or at least, a talent for simulating it.
(12) Yell.com listed 1,428 entries under "Psychics and Clairvoyants" when I started work on this in June.
(13) And while I don’t have the clairvoyance to predict which of the many cases currently winding their way through the courts will make its way first to the Supreme Court, what I do know is that the ruling in that case, like the decision in Windsor, will be in favor of equality.
(14) And there are all sorts of people there, like a retired colonel and a famous lady clairvoyant and an angry young man and a flighty young thing – isn't this just a fascinating cast of characters?
(15) Therapists are concerned that the courts are expecting them to be clairvoyant and that psychologists may not be able to predict dangerousness.
(16) The former school houses youth clubs, dance sessions, pensioners' get-togethers, and entertainment from taekwondo to clairvoyancy evenings.
(17) You saw the results.” The results made Snover look like a clairvoyant and her Republican peers look blind.
(18) The trail went cold until 2005, when a self-styled spiritual healer and clairvoyant, Mina Minic, answered a ring on his doorbell in Belgrade to find himself face-to-face with a tall man with a long bushy beard, abundant white hair done up in a top-knot tied with a black ribbon.
(19) When Brazil attacked they were thwarted by Bobby Moore who 'as always in this World Cup,' wrote Mcllvanney, 'was magnificent, interpreting the designs of the opposition with clairvoyant understanding and subduing their most spirited assaults with brusque authority.'
(20) One doesn’t have to be clairvoyant or even wait for the results, to discern the shape of the future.
Psychometry
Definition:
(n.) The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena.
Example Sentences:
(1) The collected data included measuring the pulse amplitude difference of the arteria radialis dextra and sinistra oscillographically, pain evaluation by visual analogue scales, blood pressure and heart frequency and psychometrie.
(2) Intellectual and developmental assessment of all CP cases were done by psychometry.
(3) However, this aspect of brain function is only one of many that are amenable to psychometry.
(4) Psychometry indicated left sided tempero-parietal dysfunction.
(5) It must be determined by a team of surgeons and professionals using psychometry and social sciences.
(6) Whenever possible, however, he pursued his interests in psychometry and psychophysics and strove to remain active in psychology.
(7) Urban made important contributions in psychometry and is best known for his introduction of a correction in the "Müller-Urban weights."
(8) Evaluation of blood gases, brain mapping and psychometry was carried out at 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 h after oral drug administration.
(9) From this survey it appears that most clinicians still limit investigations to psychometry, CSF-tap test(s), and cisternography.
(10) In order to overcome the well-known shortcomings of current psychometry especially for the objectivation of the effects of psychotropic drugs, a computer-assisted visuomotor tracking device has been developed.
(11) Blood sampling for zotepine and prolactin plasma levels, quantitative EEG analyses, psychometry and tolerability measures were carried out at the hours 0, 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8.
(12) The incidence and extent of cerebral damage following open-heart surgery were prospectively investigated in 103 patients, using clinical assessment, psychometry, adenylate kinase analysis in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF-AK) and computed tomography (CT) of the brain.
(13) Yet it appears that usefulness of psychometry in neuropsychology is only limited to practical aspects.
(14) Treatment with levodopa was associated with an improvement in ;speed-based' tasks as assessed by computerized psychometry.
(15) This study assessed the diagnostic utility of a computerized psychometry battery of tests: the Bexley-Maudsley Automated Psychological Screening Test and Category Sorting Test in the screening for deficits in cognitive function in a population of children who had been treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
(16) These differential effects on the neurophysiological level were also reflected at the behavioural one evaluated by psychometry, while global clinical evaluation showed, as expected, similar improvement with both drugs (apart from extrapyramidal side effects being significantly more pronounced after haloperidol than remoxipride).
(17) Measurements were made of the corrected visual acuity, colour vision (100 Hue test), visual evoked potentials (VEP), electroencephalography (EEG) frequency analysis and psychometry (digit recall) during stepwise induction of controlled hypoglycaemia produced by an intravenous insulin infusion.
(18) In order to characterize the microclimate methods of thermometry, psychometry and catathermometry are used.
(19) The use of psychometry in detecting performance changes relevant to pharmacological research is reviewed.
(20) In a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, human brain function and mental performance were studied under two different degrees of hypoxia after administration of two different doses (6 mg and 9 mg) of co-dergocrine mesylate (CDM) utilizing blood gas analysis, EEG mapping and psychometry.