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The thing about Psychic-types is that they tend to have a sort of egocentric view of supernatural power. Psychic trainers in the games often talk about how this, that or the other thing is actually a form of psychic power. Someone, possibly Sabrina, even claims love is a form of psychic power.

This creates problems when Psychic-types face off against beings who wield completely different forms of supernatural power. Acting on instinct, they try to defend against such powers as if they were a form of psychic power. This explains why literally every single pokémon type that represents a supernatural power deals double damage to Psychic-types, save for Psychic itself. It also makes it very difficult for Psychic-types to learn some of the more powerful Magic-type moves; in order to be able to wield magic on that level, they first must "get over themselves", so to speak, and since that bias is at least partially on an instinctive level, the task is more difficult than you might think.