psych-, psycho-, -psyche, -psychic, -psychical, -psychically

A conductor of souls to the lower world: A psychagogos refers especially to Hermes in Greek mythology.

A psychagogos can also depict an evoker of spirits, also termed a necromancer.

1. Someone who directs or leads the mind: Professor Higgins was a psychagogue who was a believer and practicer of psychagogy.
2. A person who calls up departed spirits; a necromancer: Joe's aunt was a psychagogue who was involved with divination which concerned the dead or death.

1. In a spiritual sense, guidance of the mind or soul: Jill's pastor was active in psychagogy and was willing to help her make decisions regarding the goals in her life.
2. Psychotherapeutic re-education stressing social adjustment of the individual: Psychagogy can be a psychotherapy that stresses the adoption by the patient of a suitable life goal.

Of or pertaining to the soul; spiritual; psychical.

Any non-physical pain: Psychalgia can be described as distress attending a mental effort, noted especially in melancholia and is also termed algopsychalia, mind pain, phrenalgia, psychalgalia, and soul pain.

Psychalgia is a kind of mental distress marked by auditory and visual hallucinations, often associated with melancholia.

Discomfort or pain, usually in the head and termed psychalgia, accompanies mental activity (obsessions, hallucinations, etc.), and is recognized by the patient as being emotional in origin.

Psychalgia is also used to refer to any psychogenic pain disorder.

An emotional condition characterized by auditory and visual hallucinations (absence of actual actions): "Lorna was hearing voices and seeing non-existing images as a result of her mental disorders."

A reference to the mind of a man or men.

1. Mind blindness.
2. Visual agnosia, or the inability to recognize objects by sight.

The subject sees the object, but cannot identify it; because of a lesion in the area of the occipital cortex.

1. A neurotic state characterized by a lack of energy and decision and by obsessions, doubts, phobias, tics, etc.
2. A form of nervous weakness in which the psychical element is dominant.
3. Medical Latin, literally, "weakness of the soul" (from Greek "soul").

1. Disordered power of concentration.
2. Mental confusion; the inability to fix one's attention on anything or to make any sustained mental effort.

Relating to the perception and interpretation of sounds: Psychauditory awareness, clarification, and elucidation of noises, sound, tones, and words are all important for a person's understanding of his environment.

Psychauditory conscious analysis is one of the attributes and qualities regarding the sounds heard by an individual.

1. Breath, to breathe, to blow, (later) to cool; hence, life (identified with or indicated by the breath): The psyche is an animating principle in humans and other living beings, the source of all vital activities, rational or irrational, the soul or spirit, in distinction from its material vehicle, the body."

"Sometimes psyche is considered capable of persisting in a disembodied state after separation from the body at death."

2. In Mythology, personified by Plato and other philosophers, it was extended to the anima mundi, conceived to animate the general system of the universe, as the soul animates the individual organism.

"St. Paul (developing a current Jewish distinction between spirit or breath, and nephesh, soul) used psyche as the lower or merely natural life of man, shared with other animals, in contrast with the spirit."
3. The soul, or spirit, as distinguished from the body; the mind and what it processes.
4. The conscious and unconscious mind and emotions; especially, as influencing and affecting the whole person: "The psyche includes both conscious and unconscious processes."
5. A term for the subjective aspects of the mind, one's self, and the soul; the psychological or spiritual as distinct from the bodily nature of humans.

Psychedelic articles or phenomena collectively; the subculture associated with psychedelic drugs.

1. Originally used in 1963 to mean mind-manifesting and now used by lay persons to describe some of the subjective aspects of intoxication, particularly with a drug; such as, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) or other drugs (hashish, mescaline, etc.) that are mind-altering and produce visual hallucinations.
2. Producing an effect or sensation held to resemble that produced by a psychedelic drug; specifically, having vivid colors, often in bold abstract designs or in motion.
3. A reference to a person who takes a psychedelic drug or who has a psychedelic life-style.