PS CC - Cursor freezes when switching apps

When working on large documents, the cursor freezes for 8-10 sec when I switch from PS to another app/finder. It also happens when I switch back to PS. 8-10 sec. of complete freeze out until everything starts working again.
Is there something I can do to solve this annoying problem?
MacBook Pro 15" Retina display / 16 GO RAM (80% allocated) / Primary scratch HD (optical 1.5TB USB), Secondary 80GB SSD disk space
Thanks!
Pierre-Étienne

Pierre, I am not a Mac user, and I was absolutely thinking it was insuficient system specs when reading your post, but you should be having no problems with that system.   How many apps do you have open?  I am not entirely sure on what you are saying about your Scratch disk.  Is it on the boot drive or a secondary drive?   80Gb free space is maybe a bit low, and it does sound like you are having to wait while Photoshop is shuffling data.  If it were a desktop system I'd suggest adding drives, but that is not doable if you already have two drives in your Mac Book.
With Windows we can open Task Manager and see what processes are using system resources on a percentage basis, and know where the bottle-neck is.  Do you have a similar feature with Mac?  I would hope a Mac user comes along to help out, so I am at least bumping your thread.

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