Word Power Session 8

Question 0

Psyche

Adjective: Psychic

Answer 0

It designates the mental life, the spiritual or non-physical aspect of one’s existence.

Question 1

Psychology

Adjective: Psychological

Answer 1

The field of someone who studies the mind

Question 2

Pathos

Answer 2

Suffering or disease

Question 3

Psychopathic

Noun: Psychopathy

Answer 3

An adjective that describes someone suffering from a severe mental or emotional disorder

Question 4

Soma

Answer 4

Body

Question 5

Psychosomatic

Answer 5

An adjective that delineates the powerful influence that the mind, especially the unconscious, had on bodily diseases

Question 6

Psychoanalysis

Answer 6

Relies on the technique of deeply, exhaustively probing into the unconscious, a technique developed by Sigmund Freud

Question 7

Psychoanalyst

Answer 7

You have asthma, let us say, and your doctor can find no physical basis for your ailment.

Question 8

Psychoanalytic

Answer 8

Finding out your condition is not emotional; of psychic orgin

Question 9

Psychosomatic

Answer 9

Resulting from the interaction of mind and body

Question 10

Psychoanalytic

Answer 10

Early trauma in talk, remembering, in exploring, in interpreting, in reliving childhood experiences

Question 11

Psychotherapy

Answer 11

The indicated treatment for psychogenic disorders, or for any personality disturbances

Question 12

Psychotherapist

Adjective: Psychotherapeutic

Answer 12

Practitioner for discovering mental disturbances