What's the difference between psychology and sexology?
Psychology
Definition:
(n.) The science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
(2) 278 children with bronchial asthma were medically, socially and psychologically compared to 27 rheumatic and 19 diabetic children.
(3) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
(4) A review is made from literature and an inventory of psychological and organic factors implicated in this pathology.
(5) Psychological well-being and the level of psychological autonomy were studied in a group of 109 Jewish late adolescents in the USSR.
(6) Contrary to expectations, it was found that psychological variables had some prognostic significance for outcome assessed by medical measures of illness severity.
(7) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
(8) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
(9) There is no doubt that psychological, reactive and environmental factors do play a certain role too.
(10) A developing sophistication on the part of both children and parents, coupled with a rapidly expanding recognition of the need to minimize the amount of physical and psychological trauma that a child has to experience, has led to a growing use of premedication agents for children.
(11) However, the test by itself should not be construed as an unequivocal measure of hysteria as defined psychologically by the MMPI.
(12) From a psychological-vertical aspect the group is rather a common situation in which the individual members remain in their experience separated from each other.
(13) It may be better for patients if they are given opportunities to psychologically prepare themselves well in advance of the operation.
(14) For many it had still a moderating effect on distress at the present but appeared to be mainly used out of "psychological dependence".
(15) Implications are discussed for the psychological assessment of bilinguals as well as for psychotherapy.
(16) Lastly, sexually tortured women manifest greater psychological and sexual dysfunction.
(17) Psychological features of isolator treatment in ten patients with acute leukemia are described and suggestions proposed for psychological management of patients under isolator conditions.
(18) More recently, it has been reported that individuals strongly reactive to psychological stress are also strongly reactive to nicotine.
(19) According to the author's observations in a federal penitentiary, bank robbery more often is a symptomatic act with psychological meaning.
(20) "I am in a bad situation, psychologically so bad and confused," one father said, surrounded by his three other young sons.
Sexology
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Liekens, who has been called the "leading lady in sexology", has written several books including The Vagina Book, The Sex Bible and Her Penis Book.
(2) Since the inception of sexology as an academic discipline a century ago, the boundary between sexology, the science, and sexosophy, the philosophy of sex, has been poorly demarcated, especially with respect to the principles of sex-reform movements.
(3) To accomplish these goals, health professionals need to be comfortable with their own sexuality, sensitive to patients' sexual concerns or problems, familiar with basic sexological knowledge, aware of their professional limitations, and warm, supportive, genuine, and empathic in the professional patient relationship.
(4) Forensic sexology is not synonymous with either forensic psychiatry or forensic psychology.
(5) There is a well-arranged outline of the lower standard limits and the average spermiological values in ejaculates of normal fertile men as well as the nomenclature, both the one used in Prague Institute of Sexology and the suggestion of the international nomenclature given by the Andrology Club.
(6) The outcome of an independent sexology course for Colombian medical students was evaluated by means of the Sex Knowledge and Attitude Test (SKAT), stressing the 'material' or 'substantial', rather than statistical, significance of changes after instruction.
(7) Out of the eastern european countries the greatest development of medical sexology occurred and a new independent branch of medicine came about in the following three: Czechoslovakia, Poland and Soviet Union.
(8) Under Hitler, there was an historical parallel when the destruction of sexology was effected by the application of the theory of social eugenics and racial purity with sexologists had endorsed.
(9) Between 1952 and 1984 a sexological study was conducted among 2,159 gynecologic patients who had been referred to Franzensbad for treatment.
(10) Sexological treatment was then attempted for a better evaluation of the psychogenic element.
(11) The referring instance should inform the patients about the therapeutic principles at the Department of Sexology and attempts must be made to motivate possible partners to participate in the treatment.
(12) The sexual development and life of 30 adult women with anorexia nervosa and of 50 control women was investigated using a structured interview and 3 sexological questionnaires.
(13) The format and technique of the vaginal sexological examination are described, and its possible applications and limitations are discussed.
(14) By 1864 Ulrichs had transposed the new knowledge from embryology to sexology to explain those to whom he gave the name Urnings (after Uranus who gave womanless birth to Venus from sea spume) as having "a woman's mind trapped in a man's body" (anima muliebris corpore virili inclusa).
(15) After this, ten patients (20%) could be referred for sexological advice while five were discharged as they did not desire further treatment.
(16) A pilot study on the feasibility of giving sexological interviews to various groups of women is presented.
(17) The data show that training programs in sexologic interviewing can improve both knowledge and skills.
(18) The author questions the sense of concepts apparently opposed to a scientific sexology anthropology.
(19) The patients controlled in our Sexologic Consultation Center for disorders of sex identity had been investigated in order both to have an indication to the surgical sex inversion and to control periodically some possible associated pathologies, which are mainly sex transmitted.
(20) This paper examines the confusion and conflict stemming from the inability of sexological research to establish a reliable operational definition of the bisexual condition.