Dictionary:

psychotronic

  (sī'kə-trŏn'ĭk)

Of or relating to a genre of film characterized by bizarre or shocking story lines, often shot on a low budget.

[Probably PSYCHO– + (ELEC)TRONIC.]

A modern term favored in Eastern Europe for what in the West is termed parapsychology. It attempts to extend parapsychology by indicating the relationship of man to the universe, interaction with other physical bodies and matter, and fields of energy, known or unknown.

The First International Conference on psychotronics was held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1974. Delegates included professors of physics and psychology, doctors of medicine and psychiatry, and parapsychologists. Subjects discussed included dowsing (water-witching and location of hidden objects), radionics, telepathy, Kirlian aura, out-of-the body travel, and bio-electric energy fields. Psychotronics organizations now exist in Poland, the Czech Republic and several other Eastern European countries.

Sources:

Wilczewski, Janusz, Zbigniew Szczerba, and Barbara Szbicka, eds. Materialy z Konferencji Parapsychologow '94. Warsaw: Polskie Towarzystwo Psychotroniczne, 1994.