Psych Meaning

"A fool who had never seen reality would think an old lady is harmless or weak. Perhaps the morons in the outside world believe an old lady locked-up in psych is akin to a sweet little grandmother, a poor old dear who is just a little confused. Such a fool does not understand the truth of some psychiatric "patients" or the reality of how that type of "patient" can de-compensate suddenly, oftentimes with no warning, and go berserk on another "patient" or on a BHT with super-human like strength so much like a person in the old movies who is hopped up on PCP." — 2014 August 15, Desha Blue, “News 2013”, in Psychiatric Abuse Poetry …: Shattering the Bloody Glass Ceiling, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:

""I couldn't stay in the psych. I had to get out, before Rudolf got to me. He is alive; he set me up," I tell him, looking around, and trying to figure out why I'm not in prison or at the police station." — 2016 March 6, Joanna Mazurkiewicz, “Detective Lee”, in Skimming the Surface (Love & Hate; 4), [United States]: Joanna Mazurkiewicz, published 2020, →ISBN:

"I still stood by my assessment that she should've checked into psych. Body dysmorphia was one thing but actually believing Barbie was a real person walking among us? That was a little too much." — 2025 June 30, Lexy Timms, “Clay”, in Not Another Love Story, part 2, [United States]: Dark Shadow Publishing, →ISBN:

"[S]he had had what she declared was a momentous series of meetings with [Sigmund] Freud in Vienna. She had attended a conference of psychs at which he had presided and they had taken a fancy to each other." — 1978, Lawrence Durrell, “Talking Back”, in Livia: Or Buried Alive […] ([The Avignon Quintet; 2]), London; Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 178:

"Prisoners brought from all the lockups in the city were unloaded here. […] They trooped in to be psyched, social-worked, assigned to cells." — 1982, Saul Bellow, chapter X, in The Dean’s December […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 202: