Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The origin and development of psychological processes, personality, or behavior.
- noun Development of a medical disorder or illness resulting from psychological rather than physiological factors.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The origination and development of the soul, or psychic organism.
- noun Generation or reproduction by means of or due to the activity of the inmost life or vitality of an organism; biogenesis referred to the operation of higher than vital forces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to
natural selection .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The origin and development of
psychological processes such aspersonality andbehaviour - noun The development of a
physical disorder from apsychological factor
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors
- noun a general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind
Etymologies
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Examples
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Once or twice he spoke of "psychogenesis" with an emphatic enunciation which seemed to invite respectful wonder.
Mushrooms on the Moor Frank Boreham 1915
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'psychogenesis', with an emphatic enunciation which seemed to invite respectful wonder.
Born in Exile George Gissing 1880
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But however naive or sophisticated a reaction it may be, its psychogenesis is perfectly intelligible, U and its existence is no proof of the supernal nature of the goodness of "good will."
Problems of Conduct Durant Drake
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In a recent work on the subject of psychogenesis he upholds his former views, and believes he has been able to separate his cases into three distinct groups.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck
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The eclectic psychiatrist who is examining mental symptoms and symptom-complexes ever more critically, who is seeking for parallel disturbances in physiological processes and who considers both psychogenesis and somatogenesis in attempting to account for psychobiological maladjustments will welcome, we can feel sure, any help that internal medicine and general and special pathology can yield.
A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 Various
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As these interpretations stand, they do not fit the psychogenesis of the dream.
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Social psychogenesis is a present and a progressive process.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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Human psychogenesis takes place in the communal stage of his life.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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[23] On the other hand the restricting forces of the sexual evolution -- disgust, shame, morality -- must also be looked upon as historic precipitates of the outer inhibitions which the sexual impulse experienced in the psychogenesis of humanity.
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897
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Very important, too, for psychogenesis, are reports concerning the physiological condition and activity of children whose mental development has seemed to be stopped for months, or to be made considerably slower, or to be unusually hastened.
The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. William T. Preyer 1869
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