intrapsychic
Adjective
Meaning
intrapsychic (comparative more intrapsychic, superlative most intrapsychic)
Within the psyche or mind
Antonyms
Examples
One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
For example, a patient may have an hysterical amnesia (memory being an autonomous function) because of intrapsychic conflict (wishing not to remember because it is too painful).
Instead, they are caused by intrapsychic conflicts.
This series of constructs, paralleling some of the later developments of cognitive theory, includes the notions of autonomous ego functions: mental functions not dependent, at least in origin, on intrapsychic conflict.