Sentences with phrase «key psychological component»

There is also a key psychological component.

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First of all, it implies some superficial beliefs about the place of sexuality in human experience (we might regard these as being in the antechamber of the temple of sacred sexuality proper): the belief that sexuality is a key, perhaps even the key, component of the quality of being human (in this, of course, lies the pervasive heritage of Freud); the belief that modern Western culture, and especially American culture, has unduly suppressed sexuality (this is the anti-Puritan aspect of the proposition), and, that, as a result, not only are we sexually frustrated (and that frustration carries all sorts of physical and psychological pathologies in its wake), but our entire relation to our own bodies as well as the bodies of others has become distorted.

The result is a unique psychological thriller that has an impact similar to a horror film but which slyly denies one key component: the violence.

These indices are in keeping with the World Health Organization's (1998) multidimensional definition of quality of life that incorporates individuals» physical and social functioning and psychological states as key components.