1.   Because the peptide is present in brain centers tied up with emotion and stress, scientists also suspect it plays a role in the psychic pain of depression.

2.   But the experiments offered no possibility of therapeutic benefit to the subjects and exposed them to some measure of psychic pain and risk of long-term harm.

3.   He has the positive glow of a man who has known physical pain and psychic pain and has come through to the other side.

4.   It may be more comforting to blame an epidemic of teen suicide on Kurt Cobain than to confront the psychic pain so many of our children are apparently suffering.

5.   My therapist would tell you that these children were simply projecting and neutralizing their own insecurities, that their thin sarcasms were manifestations of their own psychic pain.

6.   Not only was there the psychic pain of knowing your beautiful baby was going to be different, but there was the immediate physical pain of abruptly stopping breastfeeding.

7.   Some of their research simply seems cruel, especially their attempts to establish a scale of psychic pain for rape victims.