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intrapsychic

intrapsychic

1 8.9
Happens inside a person's mind and involves their thoughts and feelings
  • adjective
  • /ˌɪntrəˈsaɪkɪk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : intrapsíquico
  • Therapists often explore intrapsychic conflicts to better understand their clients' behaviors.
  • intrapsychic phenomenon
  • intrapsychic factors
  • intrapsychic conflict

Examples

  • 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

internal
vsintrapsychic
338 3.5

Inside a person, object, or system, not outside

applies to mental processes specifically rather than any inner location
inward
vsintrapsychic
12 4.6

Inside a person's thoughts and feelings

is a neutral term for mental processes, not only spiritual feeling
intrapersonal
vsintrapsychic
  • Specialized
1 7.4

Thoughts and feelings that happen inside a person

is wider, covering mental processes beyond emotions
endopsychic
vsintrapsychic
  • Specialized
9.9

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

is the general term for mental processes
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

intrapsychic positive

Morphology

intrapsychic = psychic (transparent) = intra + psych + ic

The adjective is formed by adding 'intra-' meaning 'within' to 'psychic', producing the straightforward sense 'within the mind'.

Etymology

Intrapsychic comes from the parts intra- meaning 'within' and psych meaning 'mind', the same root you see in psychology. So intrapsychic describes something that happens 'inside the mind'.