Meaning of psychotropism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The desire for or pursuit of altered states of consciousness.
   countable, uncountable
2. The alteration of one's mental state or brain structure.
   countable, uncountable
3. The desire for mental stimulation and knowledge.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“When the level of illicit drug use is added to this, it becomes apparent that psychotropism is something which affects something like half the population in America.”

“"Project MKULTRA” was the govemment's secret attempt to penetrate the occult interior of psychotropism—it appears to have failed miserably.”

“In this way, we established a trajectory of youth psychotropism based on drug users' life histories.”

“It seems that N-methyl substitution tends unspecifically to increase psychotropism of different compounds without predetermining the quality of the effect being enhanced.”

“Analgesics do not only influence pain receptors, but also the subjective experience of pain, thus exhibiting a latent psychotropism, as when a patient states that a certain analgesic 'does him good'.”

“It assays the following functions: depression, anxiety, obsession/compulsion, interpersonal sensitivity, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation and psychotropism.”

“Of the various heterocyclic systems, the indole nucleus has been reported as a common denominator of psychotropism and is of great value in the field of medicine and biochemistry.”

“...different factors like psychotropism (neuronal growth) or neuronal changes (both growth and depletion), and other organic considerations.”

“What is the explanation of this greatest of all the tropic or turning responses of nature – psychotropism?”

“I believe that this peculiarity offers the bias toward the development of a dynamic property of sexual psychotropism which makes for biological reasons for the child (growing individual) to gravitate toward the opposite sex.”

“According to Fraisse (I966), “biogenic motivations," which control adaptive behaviors necessary for survival (psychotropisms, escape phenomena, aggression, etc), are among the most archaic and involve defense mechanisms that implicate a high degree of vigilance (i.e., so-called states of overarousal).”

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