psychical Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective satellite affecting or influenced by the human mind
psychic.
- psychic energy
- psychic trauma
adjective satellite outside the sphere of physical science
psychic.
- psychic phenomena

L. psychicus, Gr. , fr. the soul, mind; cf. to blow: cf. F. psychique.

Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man. ✍ This term was formerly used to express the same idea as psychological. Recent metaphysicians, however, have employed it to mark the difference between psychh` the living principle in man, and pney^ma the rational or spiritual part of his nature. In this use, the word describes the human soul in its relation to sense, appetite, and the outer visible world, as distinguished from spiritual or rational faculties, which have to do with the supersensible world. Heyse.
Of or pertaining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; -- contrasted with physical.