Actual Freedom – Definitions

Definitions

DSM IV; Psyche; Psychic Network

Psychiatry; Psychiatrist; (Psychic) Presence; Psychogenic

Psychopathy; Psychosomatic; Psychotherapy

The DSM-IV:

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (copyright 1994 American Psychiatric Association), is a standard diagnostic text used by psychiatrists all around the globe.

Psyche:

• 1. The soul, the spirit (an entity distinct from the body, a person’s spiritual as opposed to corporeal nature; specially regarded as immortal and as being capable of redemption or damnation in a future state). Formerly also (rare), the animating principle of the universe. 2. The mind, especially in its spiritual, emotional and motivational spects; the collective mental or psychological characteristics of a nation, people, etc. Synonyms: soul, spirit, anima, self, essential nature, inner ego, personality. [from Latin (‘psyche’) Greek (‘psukhe’): breath, life, soul; relating to ‘psukhein’(breathe, blow); in Greek mythology the beloved of Eros (Cupid), the god of love]. ~ (© 1998 The Oxford Dictionary).

• 1. The spirit or soul (the vital principle or animating force within living beings; incorporeal consciousness; the spiritual nature of human beings, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state). 2. (psychiatry): The mind functioning as the centre of thought, emotion, and behaviour and consciously or unconsciously adjusting or mediating the body’s responses to the social and physical environment. ~ (© The American Heritage Dictionary 1992, 1996).

• 1: a princess loved by Cupid; 2. soul (the immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life; the spiritual principle embodied in human beings, all rational and spiritual beings, or the universe); self. [Latin from Greek: psyche, soul]. (© 1994 Merriam-Webster, Inc).

Psychic Network:

The following is the specific sense in which I use the adjective psychic in terms such as ‘psychic network’ and ‘psychic currents’/‘psychic energies’.

Viz.:

• psychic (adj.): of or pertaining to the human mind or psyche. ~ (Oxford Dictionary).

• psychic (adj.): of, relating to, affecting, or influenced by the human mind or psyche. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

And the following is both what the word psyche refers to and its etymological derivation.

Viz.:

• psyche (n.): soul, spirit, mind, fr. Latin psyche; Greek psukhe, ‘breath, soul, life’; rel. to psukhein, ‘breathe, blow’. ~ (Oxford Concise Dictionary of English Etymology).

And here is what that word ‘soul’, in the above definition, is referring to:

• soul (n.): the seat of the emotions or sentiments; the emotional part of human nature. ~ (Oxford Dictionary).

I chose to use the word soul when I first went public because, as it refers to the innermost affective entity of both those of either a secular or spiritual persuasion (the essential difference being the materialists maintain this emotional/ passional/ intuitive self – aka ‘spirit’[*] – dies with the body whereas the spiritualists maintain it does not), my presentation of actualism as the third alternative to either materialism or spiritualism speaks to the self-same ‘being’, at root, with differentiation only a connotative matter dependent upon each particular ‘being’s (occasionally changeable) partiality, or leaning, in that regard.

(Incidentally, the reason why the Greek word psukhe (‘breath, soul, life’), from which the Latin word psyche is derived, and the related Greek word psukhein (‘breathe, blow’) refer to breath and to breathing is because, for ancient peoples and/or primitive peoples life began when a newly-born infant drew its first breath and ended with that body’s last breath).

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this emotional/ passional/ intuitive self – aka ‘spirit’[*]

[*]as the word spiritual means ‘of, pertaining to, or affecting the spirit or soul’, according to the Oxford Dictionary, it too is used by those of either a secular or spiritual persuasion to refer to the self-same ‘being’, at root, with differentiation again being a matter of a partiality/leaning connotation).

Psychiatry:

Psychiatry has had at least 150+ years:

• Psychiatry (n.): the branch of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders; (adj.): psychiatric; (adv.): psychiatrically; (n.): psychiatrist. [first known use: 1840-50].[Emphasis added] ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

Psychiatrist: 

psychiatrist (n.): {a licensed physician trained in the treatment of mental illness;} (synonyms) psychotherapist, analyst, therapist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, psychoanalyser; (slang): headshrinker, shrink; [e.g.]: “We believe that civilisation has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts” (Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis); “Anyone who goes to see a psychiatrist needs his head examined” (Samuel Goldwyn). [curly-bracketed insert added]. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus).

(Psychic) Presence:

The word ‘presence’ does not only signify being physically present because all humans, currently as previously, are born with blind nature’s ‘rough-and-ready’ instinctual survival passions already in situ—complete with the feeling-‘beings’ automatically formed thereof being present-to-themselves, instinctually, each moment again regardless—and involuntarily generate an affective and psychic ‘presence’ (the former reflexively felt, emotionally and passionally, and the latter intuited, viscerally and psychically, as an embodied affective-psychic ‘presence’ by its recipient feeling-‘being’).

As babies and infants and children—just like animals generally—are particularly sensitive to the affective-psychic realm, and readily attune to the distinctly differing yet naturally complemental male and female psyches and affections, it is self-evidentially in their best interests not to meddle with the natural order of matters parental (hence being treated as both natural and valued (a.k.a. “normal” and “privileged” further above) by the cultures and societies all around the globe).

Psychogenic:

psychogenic (adj.): having origin in the mind or in a mental condition or process; [e.g.]: “a psychogenic disorder”; (adv.): psychogenically. [1900-05]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

Psychopathy:

psychopathy (n.): 1. a personality disorder characterised by deceitfulness, manipulation, grandiosity, lack of empathy or guilt, and often aggressive or violent behaviour; it is sometimes considered a subset of antisocial personality disorder; 2. *mental illness*; no longer in clinical use. [emphasis added]. ~ (American Heritage Medical Dictionary).

Psychosomatic:

psychosomatic (adj.): of, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body [e.g.]: “the psychosomatic nature of man” ~ (Herbert Ratner);

of, relating to, involving, or concerned with bodily symptoms caused by mental or emotional disturbance; ‘psychosomatic symptoms’; ‘psychosomatic medicine’; [e.g.]: “The doctor told her that her stomach problems were psychosomatic”; caused by mental or emotional problems rather than by physical illness;

(adv.): psychosomatically. [first known use: 1863]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

Psychotherapy:

• psychotherapy: the treatment of disorders of emotion or personality by psychological methods; formerly, the treatment of disease by psychic or hypnotic influence; psychotherapist: a specialist in or practitioner of psychotherapy. ~ (Oxford Dictionary).

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