What's the difference between psychic and psycho?

Psychic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Psychical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
  • (2) "Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain," Wallace wrote at one point, "because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from."
  • (3) The analysis of the neurophysiological correlations of the image formation process is followed by a study of the functional role of the image in psychic dynamics, its genetic relationship with sensation and speech, its role in the communication functions, in the structuring of the relationship between the internal and the external world.
  • (4) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
  • (5) Ventricular diffuse atrophy correlated positively with psychic and co-ordinative impairment and dysarthria, and cortical diffuse cerebral atrophy with psychic impairment (P smaller than 0.01 to 0.001).
  • (6) Unless psychic rehabilitation is undertaken in tandem with physical rehabilitation, a spinal cord-injured patient is likely to become an unhappy social recluse or denizen of a chronic care facility, rather than an independent productive member of his community.
  • (7) Aiming at a particularized functional analysis 70 patients with shoulder-hand syndrome were diagnosed; aspects of reflexotherapy (manual and neural therapy) were taken into consideration on this occasion inclusive a comment on the psychical condition.
  • (8) This is contrasted with the dialectical materialist concept of psychic phenomena as the highest integration level of man's relationship to the environment.
  • (9) Change has changed from an effect on symptoms, to underlying etiologic conflicts, to background character, to the functioning of psychic structural systems.
  • (10) When measures of change are considered, patients showed more improvement related to psychic than somatic components of anxiety.
  • (11) You cannot hold up a picture of someone being electronically spied on; even worse, you cannot illustrate the psychic damage and cowed sensibilities that come with the fear of being spied on.
  • (12) A large number of flight accidents and catastrophes associated with the human factor, high nervous and psychic tension when being on duty, increasing trend towards a greater incidence of psychogenic diseases responsible for pilots to be grounded make it necessary to develop a system of primary psychoprophylaxis of the flying personnel and to help them with various social, psychohygienic and psychoprophylactic measures.
  • (13) In its variety the group therapy concerns the general organism physically and psychically and has above all a vegetative regulation effect.
  • (14) Its consequences are extensive, damaging procedures and a postponement of a diagnosis which integrates somatic, psychic and social components by seven to eight years.
  • (15) Having started, as did Freud, from psychical traumatism P. Janet is not interested in subconscious but particularly studies the psychological deficiencies which traumatism causes or brings to the foreground.
  • (16) The 126 747 examinations for risk factors revealed a succesive increase in the detection indices as follows: 0.76 per thousand among students, 1.36 per thousand in silicogen risk enterprises, 2.07 per thousand among the workers on building sites, 2.22 per thousand among diabetics, 2.76 per thousand among contacts, 2.85 per thousand among hyperergic subjects, 3.89 per thousand among former patients no longer on the files, 4.17 per thousand among alcoholics and patients under psychical treatment, 6.01 per thousand among patients with minimal lesions and 6.82 thousand among those with sequelae.
  • (17) Despite the high prevalence of psychic symptoms in lupus patients, there are few systematic studies in this area.
  • (18) Alpidem was significantly more effective than placebo in decreasing the severity of anxiety, both in the physician's judgment [total HRSA (p = 0.007), psychic symptoms (p = 0.0040), somatic symptoms (p = 0.0002)] and in the patients' evaluation [STAI x 1 (p = 0.0001) and VAS (p = 0.0003)].
  • (19) Thematic analysis of the dream series supports Jung's conceptualization of death and dying as being a critical stage of the individuation process, characterized by profound psychical development of a specific and purposeful nature.
  • (20) present the purposes and the methods of an epidemiological study on coronary risk factors in selected bank-clerks of Parma, in view to correlate the dietary factors, possible methabolic alterations, psychical behaviour, social and environmental position and coronary risk evaluated by electrocardiographic stress test.

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.