psych
pronunciation
How to pronounce psych in British English:
UK [saɪk]
How to pronounce psych in American English:
US [saɪk]
Word Origin
- psych
- as a noun, short for psychology in various senses (e.g. as an academic study, in student slang by 1895). As a verb, first attested 1917 as "to subject to psychoanalysis," short for psychoanalyze. From 1934 as "to outsmart" (also psych out); from 1963 as "to unnerve." However to psych (oneself) up is from 1972; to be psyched up is attested from 1968.
Example
- 1. Why one in four women is on psych meds
- 2. Diamond also has a patient with ptsd who uses a psych dog .
- 3. In another psych central article , sumber offered valuable tips on analyzing your dreams .
- 4. Say a person with schizophrenia starts hearing a cacophony of voices telling him that he is a bad person ; he could look at his psych dog to see what it is doing .
- 5. Esnayra , a scientist by training , has received funding from the department of defense ( dod ) to conduct a pilot study at walter reed army medical center to see whether psych dogs can benefit veterans with ptsd .