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Psycho Saiyaan (TV series)
Psycho Saiyaan (साइको सैयां) is a 2026 Hindi romantic thriller web series on Amazon MX Player, directed by Ajay Bhuyan, starring Ravi Kishan, Tejasswi Prakash, and Anud Singh Dhaka in six episodes about obsessive love.
Psycho Samrat (সাইকো সম্রাট)
Psycho Samrat (সাইকো সম্রাট), alias Sabuj Sheikh, was a suspected Bangladeshi serial killer accused of six to seven murders in Savar in 2025-2026, arrested 18 January 2026, confessed to six murders, died in custody 23 March 2026 before trial.
Psycho shower scene
The Psycho shower scene: the 45-second murder of Janet Leigh's Marion Crane in Hitchcock's 1960 film, built from 78 setups and 52 cuts, scored by Herrmann, and studied in the documentary 78/52.
Psycho Synner
Psycho Synner, also known as Psychosexual, was Jeremy Spencer's American metal band, active roughly 2020 to 2023, known for releasing nine albums in one day in November 2021 and later renaming itself The Light.
Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer
Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer (Turkish: Saykoterapi...) is a 2024 dark comedy by Tolga Karaçelik, his first English-language film, starring Steve Buscemi, John Magaro, and Britt Lower; it premiered at Tribeca 2024, won its Narrative Audience Award, and was released by Brainstorm Media in April 2025.
Psycho-oncology
Psycho-oncology, or psychosocial oncology, is the oncology subspecialty addressing psychological, social, and ethical aspects of cancer for patients and families, spanning distress screening, psychotherapy, and multidisciplinary supportive care.
Psycho-Pass (サイコパス)
Psycho-Pass (サイコパス) is a 2012 Fuji TV noitamina original anime by Production I.G, directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani with story by Gen Urobuchi, set in 2112 Japan under the Sibyl System, with sequels, films, and games through Providence (2023).
Psycho-Pass: The Movie
Psycho-Pass: The Movie (劇場版 PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス) is the 2015 first theatrical anime film of the Psycho-Pass series, directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani, executive-directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro, written by Gen Urobuchi, and animated by Production I.G.
Psycho-Pirate
Psycho-Pirate is the name of two DC Comics supervillains, originally Charles Halstead in 1944 and later Roger Hayden, who used the Medusa Masks to control emotions and featured in the 1985 Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Psychoacoustics
Psychoacoustics is the experimental study of auditory sensation, quantifying how sound pressure level, frequency, and timing map onto the loudness, pitch, and timbre a listener reports.
Psychoactive drug
Psychoactive drug: any substance affecting mental processes such as perception, mood, or cognition, including opioids, stimulants, hallucinogens, alcohol, and nicotine; controlled internationally via the 1961, 1971, and 1988 UN conventions and WHO ECDD scheduling reviews.
Psychoactive use of Amanita muscaria
The psychoactive use of Amanita muscaria, or fly agaric, comes from ibotenic acid and muscimol rather than psilocybin, with a long history of ritual use in Siberia.
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis: Freud-derived talk therapy and personality theory using free association, the couch, and transference interpretation; 3–5 weekly sessions over years; effect sizes 1.27 pre/post; distinct from briefer psychodynamic therapy and CBT.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, often used interchangeably with psychodynamic psychotherapy, is a talk-based treatment working with unconscious conflicts, defenses, and transference; it is less intensive than classical psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalytic review
The Psychoanalytic Review, founded 1913 by White and Jelliffe, is the first English-language psychoanalytic journal, official journal of NPAP since 1958, published quarterly by Guilford, editor Paul Marcus.
Psychoanalytic theory
Psychoanalytic theory, founded by Sigmund Freud, holds that behavior is driven by unconscious mental processes. Covers defense mechanisms, psychodynamic therapy evidence versus CBT, Popper's falsifiability critique, Grünbaum's reply, and cultural applications.
Psychobilly
Psychobilly: underground genre and subculture fusing 1950s rockabilly with punk energy and horror imagery; term from Johnny Cash's 1976 song, first band the Meteors (London, 1980), scene hub the Klub Foot.
Psychobiography
Psychobiography is a qualitative research method applying formal psychological theory to a single notable individual's life, using letters, diaries, and other documents to explain personality and development.
Psychodidae
Psychodidae, the moth flies, drain flies, and sand flies, is a cosmopolitan Diptera family of over 3,000 species in six subfamilies; its Phlebotominae sand flies vector Leishmania.
Psychodrama
Psychodrama is an action-based psychotherapy founded by Jacob L. Moreno, using role-play techniques such as role reversal, doubling, and mirroring, mostly in group format; evidence shows large effects versus passive controls but no advantage over active controls.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy
Psychodynamic psychotherapy: talking treatments derived from Freud's psychoanalysis exploring unconscious processes, early experience, and the therapy relationship; manualized short-term forms show equivalence to CBT in trials.
Psychodynamics
Psychodynamics: theory explaining mental life through interacting conscious and unconscious motivational forces (drives, wishes, defenses). Rooted in Freud's psychoanalysis; spans ego psychology, object relations, self psychology; underlies psychodynamic therapy, shown equivalent to CBT in meta-analyses.
Psychogenic movement disorders
Psychogenic movement disorders, now called functional movement disorders (FMD), are involuntary-appearing tremor, jerks, dystonia, or gait problems caused by reversible brain network dysfunction, not structural damage; diagnosed by positive signs like distractibility and entrainment, treated with physiotherapy and CBT.
Psychogenic pruritus
Psychogenic pruritus, or functional itch disorder, is chronic itch without dermatologic or systemic cause, driven by psychological factors; FPDG criteria, ICD-11 EC90.4, treated with psychotherapy and neuroactive drugs.
Psychogeography
Psychogeography: the study of how geographical setting affects mood and behavior, developed by the Lettrists and Situationist International (Guy Debord) from 1953 around the dérive; revived from the late 1980s in literature and urban exploration.
Psychohistory
Psychohistory, or psycho-history, is the application of psychology, especially psychoanalysis, to historical motives, individuals, and groups; distinct from psychobiography and history of childhood strands.
Psychokinesis (염력)
Psychokinesis (염력) is a 2018 South Korean superhero black comedy written and directed by Yeon Sang-ho, starring Ryu Seung-ryong as a bank guard who gains telekinesis from meteor-struck spring water and helps his daughter fight a forced eviction; it opened at 264,659 admissions but finished under one million.
Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics: the empirical study of the mental processes behind language comprehension, production, and acquisition; interdisciplinary field rooted in eighteenth-century psychology of language, reorganized in the 1950s after Chomsky's critique of behaviorism, using eye tracking, ERP, and imaging methods.
Psychological abuse
Psychological abuse, also called emotional abuse, is repeated nonphysical mistreatment causing mental harm, via intimidation, humiliation, isolation, gaslighting, and control; definition, measurement, coercive control, and criminalization remain contested.
Psychological assessment
Psychological assessment: measuring personality, symptoms, and cognition via tests, interviews, and observation; supported by over 125 meta-analyses; flagship APA journal Psychological Assessment (ISSN 1040-3590), split from JCCP in 1989.