Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to the development of mind, or to the theory of this development; psychogenetical.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to psychogenesis.

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  • adjective of or relating to the psychological cause of a disorder
  • adjective of or relating to the origin and development of the mind

Etymologies

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psychogenesis +‎ -ic

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Examples

  • They leave a kind of psychogenetic imprint on you.

    NYT > Home Page By RUTH LA FERLA 2010

  • A few cases of melancholia, Freud wrote in “Mourning and Melancholia,” “suggest somatic rather than psychogenetic diseases,” but his own interest lay in the “cases whose psychogenetic nature was beyond a doubt.”

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

  • Meyer never clarified how to distinguish the two kinds of conditions, but his proposal that at least some depressions were psychogenetic opened up an entirely new possibility in psychiatry: that people who were not hopelessly insane could still be psychiatric patients.

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

  • If they renounced their “mystic halo,” if they made themselves less strictly scientific, or at least less dependent on what Meyer called “brain mythology,” psychiatrists could actually help patients—at least those with psychogenetic depressions—figure themselves out and get better.

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

  • Three experiments carried out in my laboratory partially verified the existence of the Type 1 and Type 3 alcoholics postulated in my psychogenetic theory, discussed earlier in this chapter.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • Three experiments carried out in my laboratory partially verified the existence of the Type 1 and Type 3 alcoholics postulated in my psychogenetic theory, discussed earlier in this chapter.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • We have before us a well-defined psychogenetic psychosis.

    Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

  • Brief as the description of his psychosis has been, it is sufficient to illustrate that here we are likewise dealing with a psychogenetic disorder manifesting itself as a reactive expression of a degenerative constitution to an unpleasant situation.

    Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

  • Certain slight symptomatologic features of these psychogenetic states of excitement in degenerates appear to furnish a differentiating point between them and the true epileptic condition.

    Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

  • In some cases the retention of suggestibility during the attacks shows clearly the psychogenetic character of the disorder, while in others the tendency toward the theatrical and exaggeration is so marked that we are forced to think of an hysterical component.

    Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

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