"A startling tale of physical and psychic disintegration."

The images flirt with despair and psychic disintegration.

Mr. Phillips is particularly adept at capturing her psychic disintegration and estrangement.

I am using the term schizophrenia in its literal sense, meaning split personality - not as commonly applied to several types of psychic disintegration or regression.

Ms. Hoke's cup installation is probably less innovative, but nonetheless manages to evoke for viewers a troubling and memorable image of psychic disintegration.

Too late, Franza discovers his misogyny, his Bluebeard machinations and the case file he has been keeping on her psychic disintegration.

His versatility was shown again as the lead in Simon Gray's "Butley," a comedy about the emotional and psychic disintegration of an English literature professor.

With an artistic point of view that unflinchingly contemplates psychic disintegration, chaos and violence, the Wooster Group represents the darker vision of New York's theatrical avant-garde.

Mr. Cronenberg has shaped a startling tale of physical and psychic disintegration, pivoting on the twins' hopeless interdependence and playing havoc with the viewer's grip on reality.

"Play the Song Again," Jacques Brel's whirlwind of a waltz (translated by Richard Stilgoe), carries the same mood to the brink of psychic disintegration.

By the end of the movie, you begin to suspect that the reason for his evasion might be that he knew if he stepped outside his own myth for even five minutes he would risk psychic disintegration.

Struggling to digest way too much information, the paintings waver comically between ecstasy and psychic disintegration, a state of mind that might be familiar, albeit in less intense forms, to many who try to keep up with the mass-mediated flow of contemporary events.

Out there with him decades later his daughter tries for a one-on-one interview, but he stays elusive, which leads one to suspect, Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times, "that he knew if he stepped outside his own myth for even five minutes he would risk psychic disintegration."

Shot in two weeks on a small Sony VX-1000 digital camera, "Everything Put Together," written by Adam Forgash, Catherine Lloyd Burns and Mr. Forster, tracks the psychic disintegration of an affluent suburban housewife (Radha Mitchell) after she loses her day-old son to sudden infant death syndrome.