- defined this way: psyche-ology; spirit, study of. (AHMC 1, 6012C31)
- that body of practice devoted to the creation of an effect on living forms. It is not a science since it is not an organized body of knowledge. In actual use it is a dramatization of Axiom 10, wholly reactive. In this wise the word can be used by Scientologists, and this definition can be used legally to prove Scn isn't psychology. (HCOB 22 Jul 59)
- the study of the spirit (or mind) that came into the peculiar position of being a study of the spirit which denied the spirit. (PAB 82)
- a study of the brain and nervous system and its reaction patterns. (ASMC 3, 5506C03)
- an anglicized word, not today true to its original meaning. Psychology is composited from psyche and ology, and psyche is mind or soul, but leading psychological texts begin very, very carefully by saying that today the word does not refer to the mind or to the soul. To quote one, it "has to be studied by its own history," since it no longer refers to the soul, or even to the mind. So we don't know what psycholoa refers to today. (PXL, p. 2)
- the study of the human brain and stimulus-response mechanism and its code word was "man to be happy, must adjust to his environment." In other words—man, to be happy must be a total effect. (2ACC lB, 5311CM17)