Definition of Psychical blindness. Meaning of Psychical blindness. Synonyms of Psychical blindness

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Definition of Psychical blindness

Psychical blindness
Psychic Psy"chic, Psychical Psy"chic*al, a. [L. psychicus, Gr. ?, fr. psychh` the soul, mind; cf. ? to blow: cf. F. psychique.] 1. Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man. Note: 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. 2. Of or pertaining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; -- contrasted with physical. Psychical blindness, Psychical deafness (Med.), forms of nervous disease in which, while the senses of sight and hearing remain unimpaired, the mind fails to appreciate the significance of the sounds heard or the images seen. Psychical contagion, the transference of disease, especially of a functional nervous disease, by mere force of example. Psychical medicine, that department of medicine which treats of mental diseases.

Meaning of Psychical blindness from wikipedia

- origins of alexia (acquired dyslexia) also known as word blindness. He believed that word blindness was the result of lesions to the left angular and supramarginal...
- for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research and Psi Encyclopedia; the American Society for Psychical Research...
- 1001/archneurpsyc.1937.02260220069003. Klüver, H; Bucy, PC (1937). ""Psychic blindness" and other symptoms following bilateral temporal lobectomy in Rhesus...
- Retrieved February 2, 2023. "@TheBlindPsychic" (Skyler Davenport) on Twitter. "Skyler Davenport (@TheBlindPsychic) | Twitter". Archived from the original...
- experiment evidently had normal vision and motor skills, but exhibited "psychic blindness" – what Rusiko Bourtchouladze described in 2004 as an inability to...
- 2009. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 65(2), pp. 91 - 106, 2001. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 65(3), pp. 161 - 174, 2001...
- 1176/jnp.7.1.103. PMID 7711480. Kluver, H.; Bucy, P. C. (June 1937). "Psychic blindness" and other symptoms following bilateral temporal lobectomy". American...
- to blindness. He called blindness experienced after the posterior portion of the occipital cortex was damaged Seelenblindheit, or psychic blindness. While...
- was only commonly represented as "blind" since the middle of the 16th century. The first known representation of blind Justice is Hans Gieng's 1543 statue...
- the study of psychical research, judging the whole bulk of the phenomena to be fraudulently produced. In Britain, the Society for Psychical Research has...