What's the difference between psyche and psycho?

Psyche


Definition:

  • (n.) A lovely maiden, daughter of a king and mistress of Eros, or Cupid. She is regarded as the personification of the soul.
  • (n.) The soul; the vital principle; the mind.
  • (n.) A cheval glass.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Today the physician who treats women with emotional problems during menopause cannot function solely as a psychotherapist; he must deal with both their soma and psyche.
  • (2) The author believes that research on chemical sensitivity that blames the psyche of the victim rather than the chemical will more likely be funded by the insurance or chemical industry than will other research.
  • (3) He said: "We are hoping the bear and the hare will enter the public psyche a bit like the snowmen last year."
  • (4) Even the nightmares my psyche produces in response to the horrors of today can’t come close to what these people have lived.
  • (5) A s Michael Howard’s flag-waving, sabre-rattling, Madrid-baiting intervention made clear, Gibraltar can occupy an oddly atavistic place in some corners of Britain’s collective psyche.
  • (6) From Shakespeare to Hemingway, the Jew has been assigned a special place in the psyche of the authors here described, reflecting the ongoing cultural bias as it became internalized in the selves of the authors quoted.
  • (7) Much of the answer, I believe, lies in how Ireland's dramatic social and economic transformation over the last 20 years changed the broader national psyche.
  • (8) We strictly have to make a distinction between the somato-psychic and psycho-somatic approach: The influence of diabetes mellitus in development of personality means, that there is an influence of somatic factors on the psyche.
  • (9) "It's really difficult for one of them to justify going to Bear Stearns with an order when a lot of our employees' psyches are in other places."
  • (10) Prince is really tripping on the unreconstructed male psyche here, unless, that is, he's deconstructing it.
  • (11) Hayes said Card Factory had enjoyed an unbroken run of like-for-like sales growth since it was founded in 1997 with card buying part of the UK psyche and the average British adult buying 30 a year.
  • (12) Getting into the director's head and understanding their psyche is what's hard.
  • (13) Mugisha says evangelists have played on the psyche of many Ugandans.
  • (14) The group of thanatological problems comprises also the question what happens in the patient's psyche in the last stage of his life.
  • (15) Earlier this year we wrote about Gnod , Salford's finest purveyors of ambient sludge, prog-metal and murky motorik psych-drone space-rock.
  • (16) Jung is unique in recognising that the 'dissociability of the psyche' is a fundamental process that extends along the continuum from 'normal' mental functioning to 'abnormal' states.
  • (17) More attention should be paid to the manipulation of the psyche in the prevention and management of cancer.
  • (18) And that sense of irritation came out in subsequent polls suggesting Osborne hadn't quite got the hang of a national psyche for which the term bolshie often seems inadequate.
  • (19) In this contribution, I offer the idea that perhaps the most important subtext in the psyche of the psychotic is what has been called the black hole.
  • (20) Her greatest acclaim as a screenwriter has come recently, for Last Tango in Halifax and, even more strikingly, Happy Valley , but she has dipped her pen into most of the defining soaps and kitchen-sink dramas of the British psyche, from The Archers to Coronation Street .

Psycho


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
  • (2) Besides the notion of psychosomatic medicine as a way of viewing, there is need of a definition of so-called psychosomatic diseases from the aspect of demarcation against general bio-psycho-social interactions.
  • (3) Seventy-nine per cent of all one year survivors have had excellent psycho-social rehabilitation.
  • (4) DynaTAC became the phone of choice for fictional psychopaths, including Wall Street's Gordon Gekko, American Psycho's Patrick Bateman and Saved by the Bell's Zack Morris.
  • (5) For this purpose, the author relies on the observations of a group of doctors during a 5-year attempt to interest neurotic patients in this stratum in a psycho-therapeutic discussion at a medical ambulant clinic.
  • (6) Made 24 Hour Psycho, Zidane, and this spring installed a new work at Tate Britain, London.
  • (7) Further severe limiting factors, for more prolonged manned space missions, are the so called "human factors" including psycho-emotional and social behaviour, especially regarding the future of astronauts after their return to earth.
  • (8) Such an analytical investigation enables the author to conclude that one must admit that helicopter piloting involves a psycho-physical workload certainly no less than that required by more powerful and faster aircraft.
  • (9) The findings support and extend theories of biologically-based and bio-psycho-social typology.
  • (10) Optimal treatment of mood disorders and prevention of suicide requires biological and psychosocial methods, therapeutic alliance and psycho-education.
  • (11) In this article medical, psycho-social, economic, legal and ethical effects have successively been investigated.
  • (12) A study among a sample of Israeli primary care physicians and a comparison group of hospital physicians revealed an empirical 'structure of committedness', ascertaining that the committedness to practice primary care is contingent on the 'intrinsic' satisfaction and rewards as well as the 'extrinsic' rewards from the professional community (namely, prestige), derived from bio-medical (but not psycho-social) intervention activities.
  • (13) It is not yet clear if the observed mental retardation is directly related to malnutrition or more to psycho-social deprivation, but is is anyhow an important problem.
  • (14) Through a statistical analysis on the mothers population during one year (1986 Nov-1987 Nov) a significant reduction of maternal delivery stress and neonatal risk has been found in relation to the "participation to the psycho-prophylactic courses" and to the "presence of fathers during delivery".
  • (15) Two bereaved groups of families (one of which received preventive intervention service) and one non-bereaved group were compared in an outcome design and were assessed for indices of illness, psycho-social disturbance, and general quality of life.
  • (16) All working-aged patients in Piedmont receiving dialysis treatment were asked to fill in a questionnaire which aimed to highlight socio-working adjustment by assessing not only the optimal nature of dialytic treatment but also its repercussions in psycho-affective, socio-economic and cultural terms.
  • (17) Psycho- and autonomotropic drugs, acupuncture, and psychotherapeutic conversations were used for the correction of psychologic abnormalities in 49 vitiligo patients, presenting with impaired sociopsychological adaptation and autonomic imbalance.
  • (18) Reflections of his psychic growth are first underscored and clarified, and then elements of the psycho-analytic experience that prompted this change and growth are delineated and discussed.
  • (19) The work methodology of PHC requires care of the individual as a bio-psycho-socio-affective being integrated into a particular environment; none of the aspects of being should be neglected or given priority.
  • (20) The anxiety parameter was evaluated as a specific index in the psycho-behavioral modifications induced by MR examination.