For at its heart, bulimia is not really about food: it is a way of controlling psychic disturbance.

The end product of such psychic disturbance could be neurosis and instability of character.

They are employed in response to psychic disturbance or the possibility thereof.

I found out what was behind it all, what had caused the psychic disturbance at St Monica's.

As free from psychic disturbance as you can get, this near the capital.

It could just be a psychic disturbance, but then you wouldn't be here with me.

Thus, only relatively heavy psychic disturbances, expressing themselves in the altered behavior of research animals, become discernible.

To me it was the beginning of nihilism - a huge psychic disturbance.

"Assuming her trouble is being caused by some psychic disturbance," she countered.

(How psychic disturbances should be treated in their beginning).