psychic damage

In connection with the psychic damage or disturbance one can have psychic damage and disturbance without a blow to the head; is that correct?

1957, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, Verbal Behavior, Appleton-Century-Crofts, page 222

While the psychic damage in these cases may not result in extreme cases of violence directed toward the self or others, it may lead to retreat to depersonalization and an inability to relate to one's fellows in a positive, noninstrumental way.

1989, Robert B. Denhardt, In the Shadow of Organization, University Press of Kansas, page 38

Placing unemployed men in workhouses, he argued, caused what we would recognize as immense psychic damage.

2006,, Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830, Yale Center for British Art, page 259

Like the sportswriters, Scott argues, they have tended to focus on deficiencies, one of which dominates all others—what he calls "psychic damage."

2011, Claude M. Steele, Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do, W. W. Norton, page 46

Neither he nor Park could have done so because, after all, they viewed the psychic damage of the marginal man as a by-product of the process of assimilation, which they thought of as a natural and unavoidable social process.

1997, Daryl Michael Scott, Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, University of North Carolina Press, page 38

Psychic damage occurs when a caramel-skinned five-year-old (like me) sees predominantly vanilla faces on her favorite shows (Wonder Woman, The Love Boat, and Charlie's Angels), in animated Disney flicks, and in her mother's Family Circles.

1999, Marcille Karp & Debbie Stoller, The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order, Penguin Books, page 29

If a psionic character who was attacked while defenseless later drinks this potion, it will cure any psychic damage he suffered except for death, idiocy, the permanent loss of an attack or defense mode, or a robot state.

1984,, Dragon Magazine volume 91, page 53

Whispers of the insane dead cause psychic damage

2012, Michael E. Shea, Sky Flourish's The Lazy Dungeon Master, page 35