Definition of "intrapsychic" [intrapsychic]

• Existing or taking place within the mind or psyche: intrapsychic conflict. (adjective)

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• "In the absence of functional interpersonal [with others] processing and functional intrapsychic [internal] processing there can only be power."
• "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."
• "Instead, the researchers suggest that a better intervention would be to "emphasize the interpersonal and intrapsychic costs of being seen as narcissistic by others.""