psychical

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Indeed, the physiological aspects of psychology, the investigations of the relation of adolescence to conversion, suggest that the distinction between the physical and the psychical is a vanishing distinction.

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  1. Same as psychic. Hence the right discussion of the nature of price is a very high metaphysical and psychical problem. Ruskin.
  2. Psychical excitation an idea considered as the cause of another idea by virtue of an association: so called to express the hypothesis that there is some scientific analogy between this phenomenon and the excitation of a peripheral nerve by aphysical excitation.
  3. Psychical research experimental and observational research into alleged phenomena apparently implying a connection with another world, or faculties unknown to psychologists.

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