psychopolitics

From psycho- +‎ politics.

psychopolitics (uncountable)

1. The interaction between human psychology and politics.
   • 2001, Hein Marais, South Africa: Limits to Change, p. 16:

     As O'Meara has shown, the NP would become viewed through the prism of ideology and cod psycho-politics.

   • 2002, Gerald H Gaynor, Innovation by Design, p. 65:

     Psychopolitics is a condition shaped by the human relations school of management, in which social relations take precendence over customers and clients and where process becomes king at the expense of productivity.

   • 2009, Mark Jarmuth, The Psychology of American Fascism, p. 139:

     By psychopolitics, Sykes means the synthesis of Freudian and neo-Marxian views.