Adjective : intrapsychic conflict.    From Dictionary.com. 

Consider sandpainting drawings as intrapsychic symbols.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyber Way]

SALTZ: Having it all has nothing to do with intrapsychic conflict.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2008] Reference

His real pitch is for what I would call “intrapsychic libertarianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [IsThatLegal?] Reference

The relief of intrapsychic pain, especially the avoidance of experiencing anxiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

He emphasized sufficient intrapsychic structural change to permit optimal functioning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

A less severe picture of adolescent depression is that of psychoneurotic intrapsychic depression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

He was always dissatisfied with research that focused primarily on genetic, organic, or intrapsychic forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

In addition to intrapsychic conflict, Aichhorn emphasized the impact of social disorganization as stimulating delinquency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

The important thing to recognize, however, is that complexes are “intrapsychic,” and as such, have at their core an archetypal element.    From Wordnik.com.  [Listening to Raven: The Shadow’s Role as Guide] Reference

These earlier conflicts evolve into intrapsychic ones as the young child internalizes parental standards, expectations, and repressed internal drives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

No scientist takes seriously the notion of the psychologically schizophrenogenic mother or that an imbalance of intrapsychic forces can result in schizophrenia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

Meissner 1985 stated that alienation is basically a pathology of the self, interfacing between intrapsychic dynamics and the existent social and cultural realities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

Moreover, regardless of the inception of the difficulty, all problems in adjustment to social reality eventually demand resolution in terms of intrapsychic dynamics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

Overall, with such youths, difficulties emanate from phase-related intrapsychic conflict or reactive responses to such events as divorce, illness, or remarriage in the family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

Pleasurable affects, the first manifestations of the differentiating libidinal drive to emerge, are invested in a fused self-object representation, the first intrapsychic libidinal investment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

Likewise, these conceptions deny the complexity of the intrapsychic world of unconscious fantasies, fears, and desires, and they overlook the ways in which such materials intrude upon conscious life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feminist Perspectives on the Self] Reference

Traditional approaches based on Rogerian client-centered principles, or psychodynamic theory, emphasize personal growth or intrapsychic exploration and lack the methods specific to such immediate goals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference

Compared to the excitement and mystery evoked by intrapsychic exploration or the feeling of power experienced in devising and applying paradoxical interventions, skill training follows a very routine and orderly course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference

Out of the art gallery and into our offices, as practitioners of psychoanalytic psychotherapies, we witness the pain of patients stuck in interpersonal relationships or, more often, intrapsychic conflicts demons known as negative introjects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penelope Andrew: The Freud(ian)s: Inspired by Sigmund's Passion for Antiquities, Jane Debuts Her Own Paradigms of the Unconscious] Reference

Psychoanalysis seek not to reconstruct actual events occurring in public arenas of consentual validation, but to recover and elaborate highly individualized webs of intrapsychic fantasy woven with and around and over and under such "real" events.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shrinking Michelangelo] Reference

When the corporation wants to externalize blame and escape responsibility (one clinically diagnostic intrapsychic feature of narcissism, sociopathy, and psychopathy) for an unethical or unlawful act, it reverts to the self-description of not being a human.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masculine Pathology and the Death of Capitalism] Reference

They do not do so for reasons intimated above, namely (1) that no simple relation exists between any given sequence of events and the intrapsychic fantasies which these events engender or to which they may become attached, and (2) that alternate and even mutually contradictory fantasies often coexist in the psyche.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shrinking Michelangelo] Reference

Is at once a biological event, a generation-specific repertoire of verbal constructs reflecting medicine's intellectual and institutional history, an occasion of and potential legitimization for public policy, an aspect of social role and individual — intrapsychic — identity, a sanction for cultural values, and a structuring element in doctor and patient interactions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference

Through this intrapsychic maneuver, she not only disowns her malicious impulses but attributes the evil to others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

It is recognized that extrapsychic as well as intrapsychic approaches may be more appropriate and that differential helping strategies may be needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

This added factor leads to an exaggeration of all the unfavorable psychic tendencies which have made their appearance, and the intrapsychic struggle goes on with increased vigor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

Van Houdenhove's account (an editorial) is immersed in psychogenic explanations for 'CFS/ME', based on a concept of "unexplained therefore considered psychogenic by default", personality problems (including a "narcisssistic tendency to deny personal limits" and "a negative perfectionist attitude induced by overcritical parents" etc.) and somatic symptoms as resulting from "intrapsychic conflict.".    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Curtis 1977 noted that in the last twenty-seven years, analysts have expanded their sphere of interest beyond the patient’s intrapsychic life to embrace all aspects of the therapeutic relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

As one commentator aptly puts it, “on the one hand, poetry promotes intrapsychic conflict; on the other, it keeps us unconscious of that conflict, for the irrational part of our psyche cannot hear reason's corrections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry] Reference

In psychoanalytic terms, writes John Suler, a professor of psychology at Rider University, computers and cyberspace may become a type of ‘transitional space’ that is an extension of the individual’s intrapsychic world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tyranny of E-mail] Reference

A firm, intrapsychic pinch would be good for us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith Acosta: The Great American Trance] Reference