The psychological novel is not content to state what happens but goes on to explain the motivation of this action.

The psychological novel can be called a novel of the "inner man," so to say.

Three major elements of the writing style indicate that the book can be classified as a psychological novel.

The pace is unusually fast for a psychological novel.

This is the first psychological novel in Telugu literature.

He was the author of a partly biographical psychological novel, Adolphe.

Also there are precious few psychological novel from India, and the writing style is romanticist.

As was common with psychological novels, he emphasizes an extreme display of character development.

In 1932, he published "Fengzi," his first major work, a psychological novel.

It has been characterised as the first psychological novel in Western literature.