Membership in the human race was a psychological crutch she knew she could do without, but wasn't quite ready to throw away yet.

I'm relying on Royan as a psychological crutch.

Having never processed a broad-based income tax before, agency officials lack the great psychological crutch of bureaucracies everywhere: a data base.

Yet sometimes that is what I feel like doing to the psychological and emotional crutches which are marketed as folk religion.

Perhaps some people need a psychological or emotional crutch before their faith will come back or to give them more confidence.

Shoemaking provided his psychological crutch in prison, and though he's free, the doctor still pursues his trade compulsively.

Wyman, although moderate in his use of alcohol and drugs, has stated that he became "girl mad" as a psychological crutch.

He later learned his electrical powers were innate and the helmet simply a psychological crutch.

The provision of such power outlets is a psychological crutch to overcome "range anxiety".

Methadone is a psychological crutch as well as a physical one.