Psychotopology
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The psychological dimension of place; the impact of the physical environment on one's emotional and mental state; psychogeography. countable, uncountable
"As Kurt Lewin's efforts to develop a psychotopology of personality clearly revealed, the environmental vectors which impinge upon personality must interact with psychovectors before behavioral direction is modified."
- 2 The pattern or structure of mental processes. countable, uncountable
"Tangential but very important to this paper is Maruyama's persuasive argument that there are prevailing structures of reasoning or "psychotopologies" that interpretively create both the objectivity and the relevance of all matter of inquiry."
Example
More examples"As Kurt Lewin's efforts to develop a psychotopology of personality clearly revealed, the environmental vectors which impinge upon personality must interact with psychovectors before behavioral direction is modified."
Etymology
From psycho- + topology.
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