metapsychology (redirected from metapsychological)

metapsychology /meta·psy·chol·o·gy/ (-si-kol´ah-je) the branch of speculative psychology that deals with the significance of mental processes that are beyond empirical verification.

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met·a·psy·chol·o·gy (mt-s-kl-j)

n.

1. Philosophical inquiry supplementing the empirical science of psychology and dealing with aspects of the mind that cannot be evaluated on the basis of objective or empirical evidence.

2. A comprehensive system of psychology involving several different approaches to mental processes as described in the Freudian theory of the mind.