What's the difference between psychic and theologian?

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.

Theologian


Definition:

  • (n.) A person well versed in theology; a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Jewish writer and theologian Arthur Cohen wrote of the Shoah in terms of what he called the Tremendum, something so completely impossible to comprehend, yet so essential that we (all) try.
  • (2) Not only doctors and prison officials took part in this meeting but also general practitioners, theologians, philosophers, ex-prisoners, judges, lawyers, Members of Parliament and Senators.
  • (3) As the theologian Broderick Greer tweeted , “only a white person could get this much attention for being black” – and only a white woman could get this much attention for being a black woman during a week when the national conversation finally turned to police violence directed at black women after video surfaced of a 14-year-old black girl terrorized by police in McKinney, Texas.
  • (4) But she says: "In the UK our scholars and theologians have not been prepared to make any rulings.
  • (5) Scholarly inquiry, the search for causation, the most meticulous reconstruction, the grave questions of theologians and of thinkers like Arendt herself, the wrenching accounts of survivors, the discovered testimony of victims like Anne Frank – it all goes only so far.
  • (6) So in a way even my science books are forced to take a stance, not against posh theologians who accept evolution but surely the absolute majority of religious people in the world who literally believe that every species was separately created and even, in the case of the Abrahamic religions, believe that Adam and Eve were created 6,000 years ago.
  • (7) After the remote, intellectual German theologian came the church's first Jesuit leader, its first Latin American pontiff – and the first pope to take the name of Francis.
  • (8) "Whenever the Democratic party nominates a Catholic it is a godsend, because otherwise the abortion issue is secondary," said Father Richard McBrien, a theologian at Notre Dame University.
  • (9) "Sophisticated" theologians (what is there in "theology" to be sophisticated about?)
  • (10) He declared that the bishops of England and Wales had a very good relationship with their moral theologians, making it clear that there would be no purges in his territory.
  • (11) Spiritual and emotional development, responsibility and guilt, law and freedom, psychic structure and sanctity, sexuality, and symbolic representation are among the areas which demand intellectual exploration in depth, jointly, by theologians and social scientists.
  • (12) He believes that medical practitioners should play the primary role in the ethical training of physicians, but that teachers should be drawn as well from the ranks of moral philosophers, lawyers, theologians, social scientists, and others.
  • (13) As for me – a theologian might say God stayed his hand.
  • (14) The President's Commission on Ethics in Medicine and Human Research has utilized many of the principles developed by Catholic theologians when considering the matter of pain relief for dying persons.
  • (15) These are big claims, which take Brooks well beyond his usual opinion columns in the New York Times, and many philosophers and theologians will fume that he gets far more attention for arriving late at their party.
  • (16) On the whole, members are primarily mathematicians, geologists, and theologians and are identified not by name but by a given number.
  • (17) He wrote his thesis on how the evangelist preacher Jerry Falwell somehow embodied the teachings of the influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who wrote extensively, in books like Moral Man and Immoral Society, about the intersection of faith, politics and social action, and who was a major influence on Martin Luther King.
  • (18) Participation in geronotology by anthropologists, theologians, and jurists is pleaded.
  • (19) Other theologians will accept that the Old Testament is pretty horrible but will point with pride, and nods of approval from all sides, to the New Testament as a truly righteous moral guide.
  • (20) We have priests and theologians being silenced by the Vatican – they can act against people whose views they feel are liberal, but they will not act against someone who not only endangered children but let them be abused.