What's the difference between psycho and wacko?

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.

Wacko


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Don’t forget to tweet your thoughts on that and your opinions on meteorology to @KidWeil or graham.parker.freelance@guardiannews.com 3.09am GMT More thoughts on the weather J.R. (36 mins) is back: The sad thing is that all the wacko, biased U.S. supporters will try to frame this game in some sort of heroic, legendary framework when in reality it's just idiotic.
  • (2) Back in early 2013, shortly after Cruz’s arrival in the Senate, McCain had deemed him and colleagues with similarly flamboyant conservative plumage “wacko birds”.
  • (3) Cruz is used to mainstream Republican opprobrium – John McCain famously described him and fellow conservative Rand Paul as "wacko birds" – but he briefly became the most hated figure in Congress when he then failed to follow through on his strategy by winning enough support in the Senate, leaving Boehner blamed for shutting down the government.
  • (4) When Farage ran for election here in 2005, the party was regarded as a bunch of marginal wackos, rather than serious contenders.
  • (5) The GOP is known for a lot of wacko stances at the moment, but one of the few areas where it's leading the way – and Christie is a particular champion – is education.
  • (6) Strange, but I see wacko Bernie Sanders allies coming over to me because I’m lowering taxes, while he will double & triple them, a disaster!” he tweeted on Monday.
  • (7) The London mayor wrote that Isis, whom he described as "wackos", now controls an area the size of Britain and that the government had to be far more effective at preventing Britons from travelling to Syria or Iraq to join them.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cruz’s campaign launch video Veterans in Congress have expressed a distaste for Cruz’s theatrics, with Arizona senator John McCain at one point calling his colleague one of several “ wacko birds ” to have joined the party.
  • (9) By contrast, the junior Wacko Bird from Texas, Ted Cruz, will be popular only as long as GOP voters are day-dreaming about anybody but Obama in the White House and not making plans to actually accomplish anything.
  • (10) On US TV earlier this week the Black Swan director defended his version of Noah against "environmental wacko" accusations , telling CNN's Christiane Amanpour: "It was very clear to us that there was an environmental message [in the Bible].
  • (11) "In Wacko Wayne's world, the only answer to death by guns is to flood the country with more guns and stand ready for the shootout.
  • (12) One kind morning I got myself to a meeting with a marvellous occupational therapist, Nicky deCourcy, who stolidly laid out a few facts, among them the detail that I wouldn't be able to cope for a while with more than two extraneous interventions – quiet TV plus reading, say, or radio plus writing – and that sudden urgent sounds would send me, in the medical terminology, a bit wacko.
  • (13) "I was being a hippy on the stoned hippy trail in Goa – wacko land," he says.
  • (14) At present the police are finding it very difficult to stop people from simply flying out via Germany, crossing the border, doing their ghastly jihadi tourism, and coming back.” The mayor said that while Britain’s recent military interventions had left the nation reluctant to wade into overseas conflicts, “doing nothing is surely the worst of all” and warned that the Isis “wackos” must be tackled.
  • (15) Senator John McCain called Paul and cosignatory Ted Cruz " wacko birds " for their refusal to debate certain issues.
  • (16) Richard Scott Taylor, who put the pavilion together, described it as "a giant barrel of wacko".