The physical child response to stroking is extended to the psychological equivalent in terms of praise and reward.

Nor was I just doing the psychological equivalent of hand-holding.

Talking about all the hideousness is like the psychological equivalent of using a stomach pump.

It's the psychological equivalent of having a flashy red sports car plus the bank balance and looks to match.

A mystery novel burdened by wooden dialogue and the psychological equivalent of paid political announcements shouldn't work, but this one does.

A lustful thought is the psychological equivalent of a rape.

"Jared has the emotional and psychological equivalent of that disease," she said.

Damon had told him once that among a telepathic family a lustful thought was the psychological equivalent of rape.

Yet the Expressionist in him kept seeing psychological equivalents everywhere.

Maybe his mind is the psychological equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting.