Psychovisor

A supervisor that has no respect for his subordinates & no Morals. Will sacrifice anyone to move up the corporate ladder

Paul - Christ Ryan is riding me, I'm as busy as a Beirut Bricklayer
Craig - He's a real Psychovisor
Paul - I wish He'd crawl up his own arse & die. The scumbag

Psychovisor by Ankles1959 December 21, 2013

psychohistory 

Psychohistory is a fictional term first described in Isaak Asimov's classic novel Foundation.
Psychohistory is a branch of mathematics which deals with the reactions of human conglomerates to fixed social and economic stimuli.
In a nutshell it's the science that can predict the future.
The greatest psychohistorian of all time was Hari Seldon.

"I quite understand that psychohistory is a statistical science and cannot predict the future of a single man with any accuracy."

psychohistory by Kitsaronas August 5, 2008

Psychovores 

An animal or person that eats emotions, psychic energy and mental nutrients.

The terror of their sudden appearance seemed to galvanize the hellish creatures, sharpening their appetites as the air chilled further and the day seemed to turn overcast in moments. Harry didn't even want to contemplate the amount of power needed to do that as more than a hundred starving psychovores bore down on a crowd of schoolchildren.
-- Chapter 39 of "Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past"

Psychovores by The Logical Fallacy July 9, 2017

Psychohistory

A fictional social science, coined by Isaac Asimov in his Foundation series, which combines history, sociology, and mass psychology to predict the broad, statistical future of galactic civilizations across millennia. The core premise is that while individual behavior is chaotic, the reactions of human masses are predictable, like molecules in a gas. A true psychohistory would allow its practitioners to guide the future with minimal, calculated interventions, steering the course of empires as one might nudge an asteroid.

*Example: “My startup’s ‘psychohistory’ was just aggressive data analytics. We didn’t predict the fall of an empire, but we modeled that if we offered a 15% discount to users in City A, it would trigger a social-media cascade leading to a 5% market share gain in City B within three months. We weren’t Hari Seldon; we were just playing with fire and demographic spreadsheets.”*

Psychohistory by Abzunammu February 2, 2026

Psychohistory Theory

The grand, fictional social science framework from Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, proposing that the future of galactic civilizations can be predicted with mathematical certainty through the analysis of mass human behavior. The core axiom is that while individual actions are random, the behavior of very large populations is statistically predictable, much like the physics of gases. This theory posits that a sufficiently advanced mathematical model could forecast societal collapse, dark ages, and recoveries millennia in advance, allowing a small, knowledgeable elite to guide history with minimal, precisely calculated interventions. It's history as a deterministic physics problem, where humanity is the equation.

Example: "Our corporate strategy team thinks they're using Psychohistory Theory. They feed social media sentiment, commodity prices, and birth rates into a model that spits out a 78% probability of a 'cultural fatigue event' in our key demographic by Q4. They're not predicting the fall of the Galactic Empire, but they did buy all the ad space for mindfulness apps six months before the burnout wave hit. They guide markets the way Hari Seldon guided millennia."

Psychohistory Theory by Abzunammu February 2, 2026

Psychoviolence

A broad term for psychological harm that damages a person’s emotional well‑being, sense of self, or capacity for healthy relationships. Psychoviolence includes verbal abuse, humiliation, isolation, threats, manipulation, and the systematic undermining of a person’s reality (gaslighting). It differs from cognitive violence by focusing on emotional and affective damage rather than purely cognitive processes. Psychoviolence is common in domestic abuse, workplace bullying, and online harassment.

Example: “He never hit her, but the daily mockery, silent treatments, and public shaming were psychoviolence—slow erosion of her will.”

Psychoalienation

A state of estrangement from one’s own emotions, desires, and affective responses, often caused by prolonged psychoviolence or coercive environments. Psychoalienation makes a person feel that their emotional reactions are wrong, excessive, or unwelcome, leading to suppression, numbness, or the adoption of false feelings to appease others. It is common in survivors of narcissistic abuse, cults, and online mobs where any genuine expression is met with ridicule or punishment.

Example: “She had learned to laugh when she wanted to cry, to apologize when she was wronged—psychoalienation had turned her heart into a mirror of her abuser’s expectations.”

Psychoviolence by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal April 15, 2026