intrapsychic

Examples

• All

• In other words, there is a cause-and-effect relation proceeding from the personal, intrapsychic motivation to its public expression.

  Academic text (1994)

• Virtually all therapists conceptualize defense as an intrapsychic process of disavowing the true interpretation of one's behavior, although such an account is inherently paradoxical.

  Academic text (1996)

• There is an exchange, an intrapsychic deal going on.

  Academic text (1995)

• In contrast to the study of intrapsychic structure, family systems therapy regards the entire family rather than the individual as the matrix of identity.

  Academic text (1997)

• How do intrapsychic factors, such as will, affect adolescent girls' behavioral choices? (4)

  Academic text (2003)

• In response to a question, Horney said that intrapsychic phenomena are inseparably related to the interpersonal.

  Academic text (1990)

• Ultimately, the hope is that this analysis will help elucidate the intrapsychic and environmental factors that shape adolescent girls' everyday decisions to behave in good and bad ways.

  Academic text (2003)

• The purpose of such inquiry is to help clients release themselves from intrapsychic and interpersonal difficulties by deepening self-awareness and insight.

  Academic text (1994)

• Although the experience of pregnancy varies as a function of cultural and social context, it is also affected by intrapsychic personality factors, some of which may at times also reflect internalized sociocultural values and attitudes.

  Academic text (2002)

• Festinger's original formulation stated that these changes were brought about by cognitive dissonance: an unpleasant state of intrapsychic conflict that individuals sometimes reduce by changing their attitudes.

  Academic text (1996)

Synonyms

I

internal

vsintrapsychic

338 3.5

Inside a person, object, or system, not outside

applies to mental processes specifically rather than any inner location

I

inward

vsintrapsychic

12 4.6

Inside a person's thoughts and feelings

is a neutral term for mental processes, not only spiritual feeling

I

intrapersonal

vsintrapsychic

• Specialized

1 7.4

Thoughts and feelings that happen inside a person

is wider, covering mental processes beyond emotions

E

endopsychic

vsintrapsychic

• Specialized

9.9

Happening inside the mind in a person's thoughts or feelings

is the general term for mental processes

I

intramental

vsintrapsychic

• Specialized

9.9

Happens inside a person's mind and does not involve other people

is broader and does not stress individuality of the processes

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology