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Psalmody(SALMODIA)Vol. X, p. 999 SALMODIA. — I. DEFINITION. — The singing of the psalms and canticles of the Church is called s. The liturgical tradition indicates three ways of singing the…
Psalms(SALMI)Vol. X, p. 998 SALMI. - Poetic compositions, of prayer or instruction, employed in both Israelite and Christian worship, whose collection of 150 forms in the Bible the book…
Psalms of S.(SALMI DI S)Vol. X, p. 1003 SALMI DI S. — An apocryphal work comprising a group of 18 brief religious compositions, inserted among the “Solomonic” books in certain manuscripts of the…
Psalter (Psaltery)(SALTERIO (SALTERO))Vol. X, p. 1009 PSALTER (SALTERO). This is what was called (from ψαλτήριον, psalterium, a stringed musical instrument, and hence by analogy the collection of hymns to be sung…
Psellos (Psēllas), Constantine (Michael)(PSELLO (ΨΈΛΛΑΣ), COSTANTINO (MICHELE))Vol. X, p. 152 PSELLO (Ψέλλας), COSTANTINO (MICHELE). — Political figure at the court of Byzantium and polymath, b. in 1018 at Constantinople, d. in 1078 (?). Endowed with an…
Pseudepigrapha(PSEUDEPIGRAFI)Vol. X, p. 152 PSEUDEPIGRAPHA. — This is the name given by Protestants (Greek φεσθειάγραφος, “with a false title”) to the books called apocrypha (v.) of the Old Testament by…
Pseudo-BoccaccinoVol. X, p. 153 PSEUDO-BOCCACCINO. — Name created by critics to designate an unknown Lombard painter, whose only dated work, from 1500, is the Lavanda dei piedi, in the…
Pseudo-Egesippus(EGESIPPO, PSEUDO)Vol. V, p. 109 PSEUDO-HEGESIPPUS. — Under the name of E. there has been transmitted a very free translation of Flavius Josephus’s Jewish War, written in the 4th century. The…
Pseudo-Isidore(PSEUDO-ISIDORO)Vol. X, p. 153 PSEUDO-ISIDORE. — This name conceals a person or, rather, a group of persons of the 9th century, whose identity has still not been established and to whom one…
Psichari, ErnestVol. X, p. 157 PSICHARI, ERNEST. - French writer, b. 29 Sept. 1883 in Paris, d. in the war on 22 Aug. 1914 at Rossignol (Belgium), nephew of Ernest Renan. An essentially…
Psychasthenia(PSICASTENIA)Vol. X, p. 157 PSICASTENIA: V. PSICOSI OSSESSIVA.
Psychic Abnormals(ANORMALI PSICHICI)Vol. I, p. 848 ANORMALI PSICHICI: v. FRENASTENICI; MINORATI PSICHICI.
Psychic Dissociation(DISSOCIAZIONE PSICHICA)Vol. IV, p. 1009 DISSOCIAZIONE PSICHICA: v. SCHIZO-FRENIA.
Psychic Minors(MINORATI PSICHICI)Vol. VIII, p. 635 MINORATI PSICHICI. – The term m. p. (or psychically abnormal persons) has a medico-pedagogical meaning and is used in school medicine and remedial pedagogy.…
Psychoanalysis(PSICANALISI)Vol. X, p. 155 PSICANALISI. – It is a system of dynamic psychology, that is, one which studies especially the forces propelling and directing psychic activity, conceived and…
Psychologism(PSICOLOGISMO)Vol. X, p. 163 PSYCHOLOGISM. — In general, this indicates “the tendency to make the psychological point of view (that is, the empirical analysis and scientific observation of…
Psychology(PSICOLOGIA)Vol. X, p. 157 PSYCHOLOGY. — From the Greek ψυχή, λόγος, it is the “doctrine or science of the soul,” of its nature and operations. The term p. derives from C. Wolff (v.),…
Psychology of Jesus Christ (Psychological Consciousness of G.)(PSICOLOGIA DI GESÙ CRISTO (COSCIENZA PSICOLOGICA DI G.))Vol. X, p. 160 PSYCHOLOGY OF JESUS CHRIST (PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF G.). — In the generic sense, psychological consciousness is the perception that an intelligent being…
Psychoneuroses(PSICONEVROSI)Vol. X, p. 164 PSICONEUROSES. – A term first used by Dubois (1904) to designate, within the broad group of neuroses, the forms involving a predominant intervention of mental…
Psychopathic Personalities(PSICOPATICHE, PERSONALITÀ)Vol. X, p. 164 PSYCHOPATHIC PERSONALITIES. - Thus are understood those abnormal personalities who suffer and cause society to suffer (K. Schneider). In the last century there…
Psychophysics(PSICOFISICA)Vol. X, p. 157 PSICOFISICA: V. PSICOLOGIA SPERIMENTALE.
Psychosomatic Medicine(PSICOSOMATICA, MEDICINA)Vol. X, p. 169 PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE. — At the basis of psychosomatic medicine is the conception that emotional states can condition particular somatic manifestations of a…
Psychotechnics(PSICOTECNICA)Vol. X, p. 170 PSYCHOTECHNICS. — P. is, as it were, the synthesis of all that has been done by physicians, psychologists, and sociologists, focusing on the human factor, to…
Psychotherapy(PSICOTERAPIA)Vol. X, p. 172 PSYCHOTHERAPY. — Psychotherapy is therapy by psychological means. Its field of action is essentially represented by those psychic and somatic disorders in…
