-raf, -rȧf noun
Etymology: psych- + -graph
1.
a. : an instrument intended to record psychic processes ; especially : an instrument for spirit writing
b. : a device used in automatic writing or drawing : autoscope , planchette
2. : an image felt to have been produced upon a photographic plate without a camera by the influence of a spirit
3. : profile 8a
4. : a biography written from a psychodynamic point of view : a character analysis
not to treat them too seriously but rather to expose them to pitiless publicity in psychographs which reveal their essential absurdity — New York Herald Tribune Book Review