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The study and elucidation of those slowly changing functions known as psychic
structures that usually shape, channel, and organize mental activity into
meaningful and tolerable patterns of experience. The usual structures
referred to in this sense are memory, speech, locomotion, cognition, drive,
restraint, discharge, and the capacity to make judgments and decisions.
See Freud, Sigmund.
Source: Edgerton, Jane E. 1994. American Psychiatric Glossary, 7th Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press
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