psyche
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- noun
- /ˈsaɪki/
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- The therapist helped him explore the depths of his psyche to understand his feelings better.
- the human psyche
- the collective psyche
- body and psyche
I mean, a journey into your brain and your psyche that is fascinating.
- I mean, a journey into your brain and your psyche that is fascinating.
- It's a blueprint that your mind, body and psyche work to make real.
- Psychology means the study of the human psyche or mind, right?
- And it speaks to an unwellness in our psyche, in our spirit.
- And you twist and deform your whole psyche and tell yourself crazy stories.
- Because, first of all, it's kind of helpful to my psyche because I don't look back.
- Are we moving too fast for our psyches to be able to handle it?
- And in that window is the reorganization of the mind, body, psyche, nervous system.
- So cruelty has been a part of their psyche their whole lives.
- The worst kinds of parts of our psyches are being, you know, fed and tapped into.
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There is a brokenness in the American psyche that we can.
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But in the final days of his life, he revealed an unknown side of his psyche.
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We take them into the psyche by sitting with them.
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And something in my psyche just went click, click, click, click.
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I mean that, that just what that does to your own psyche, to your own sense of yourself.
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I mean, a journey into your brain and your psyche that is fascinating.
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Psychology means the study of the human psyche or mind, right?
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And that feeds into the public psyche, of what they think.
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And whatever is unresolved within your own psyche is going to be seen.
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Several such transcendent aspects of the psyche have been described in both Eastern and Western psychologies.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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The part of a person that thinks, feels, and remembers
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A part of a person that is not the body and that many believe lives after death
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word psyche comes from an old Greek word that meant 'soul' or 'breath'. It is the same root as psychology, which studies the mind, so psyche now means the center of a person's thoughts and feelings.