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Psalmody (SALMODIA)
I. DEFINITION. - The singing of the psalms and canticles of the Church is called p. Liturgical tradition indicates three ways of singing the psalms, whence… -
Psalms (SALMI)
Poetic compositions, of prayer or instruction, used in both Israelite and Christian worship, whose collection of 150 forms the book of Psalms or Psalter (v.)… -
Psalms of S. (SALMI DI S)
An apocryphon comprising a group of 18 brief religious compositions, inserted among the "Solomonic" books in certain codices of the Greek translation of the… -
Psalter (Psaltery) (SALTERIO (SALTERO))
This was the name given (from ψαλτήριον, psalterium, a stringed musical instrument, and hence, by analogy, the collection of hymns to be sung to the… -
Psellos (Psēllas), Constantine (Michael) (PSELLO (ΨΈΛΛΑΣ), COSTANTINO (MICHELE))
Politician at the court of Byzantium and polygraph, b. in 1018 at Constantinople, d. in 1078 (?). Endowed with an immensely vast culture, he first held… -
Pseudepigrapha (PSEUDEPIGRAFI)
This is the name given (Gr. φεσθειάγραφος "with a false title") by Protestants to the books called apocrypha (v.) of the Old Testament by Catholics. Even… -
Pseudo-Boccaccino
Name created by criticism to designate an unknown Lombard painter, whose only dated work of 1500 is the Washing of the Feet, of the Accademia in Venice (no.… -
Pseudo-Egesippus (EGESIPPO, PSEUDO)
Under the name of E. there is handed down a very free translation of the Jewish War of Flavius Josephus, written in the 4th century. The name E. is a simple… -
Pseudo-Isidore (PSEUDO-ISIDORO)
Under this name is hidden a personality, or rather a group of persons of the 9th century, whose identity is still not established today and to whom one of the… -
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 modern and profoundly… -
Psychasthenia (PSICASTENIA)
PSICASTENIA: V. PSICOSI OSSESSIVA. -
Psychic Abnormals (ANORMALI PSICHICI)
ANORMALI PSICHICI: v. FRENASTENICI; MINORATI PSICHICI. -
Psychic Dissociation (DISSOCIAZIONE PSICHICA)
DISSOCIAZIONE PSICHICA: v. SCHIZO-FRENIA. -
Psychic Minors (MINORATI PSICHICI)
The term m. p. (or mentally abnormal) has a medico-pedagogical value and is in use in school medicine and in remedial pedagogy. Some authors prefer that of… -
Psychoanalysis (PSICANALISI)
It is a system of dynamic psychology, that is, one that studies in particular the forces of propulsion and direction of psychic activity, conceived and… -
Psychologism (PSICOLOGISMO)
It indicates, in general, «the tendency to let the psychological point of view (that is, the empirical analysis and scientific observation of facts and their… -
Psychology (PSICOLOGIA)
From the Greek ψυχή, λόγος, it is the "doctrine or science of the soul," of its nature and its operations. The term p. comes from C. Wolff (v.), who was the… -
Psychology of Jesus Christ (PSICOLOGIA DI GESÙ CRISTO (COSCIENZA PSICOLOGICA DI G.))
In a generic sense, psychological consciousness is the perception that an intelligent being has of its own acts, but in a more determinate sense it is the… -
Psychoneuroses (PSICONEVROSI)
Term first used by Dubois (1904) to designate, within the vast group of the neuroses, the forms in which mental representations play a preponderant part. Most… -
Psychopathic Personalities (PSICOPATICHE, PERSONALITÀ)
By this are meant those abnormal personalities that suffer and make society suffer (K. Schneider). In the last century people readily spoke of moral insanity… -
Psychophysics (PSICOFISICA)
PSICOFISICA: V. PSICOLOGIA SPERIMENTALE. -
Psychosomatic Medicine (PSICOSOMATICA, MEDICINA)
At the basis of psychosomatic medicine is the conception that emotional states can condition particular somatic manifestations of a general character… -
Psychotechnics (PSICOTECNICA)
Psychotechnics is, as it were, the synthesis of everything that, with an eye to the human factor, has been done by physicians, psychologists and sociologists… -
Psychotherapy (PSICOTERAPIA)
P. is therapy by psychological means. Its field of action is essentially represented by those psychic and somatic disorders in which emotional psychological…