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psychogenetically

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In reference to the theory of the origin of the mind.

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Examples

  • In this respect, the psychogenetically depressed were the lucky ones.

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

  • And yet again at moments the solution suggested by the item in The Times – Union again thrusting itself forward, psychogenetically, born of his own turbulent, eager and disappointed seeking.

    An American Tragedy 2004

  • More important, psychogenetically, are observations concerning the forming of new words with a definite meaning before learning to speak -- words not to be considered as mutilations, imperfectly imitated or onomatopoetic forms (these, too, would be imitations), or as original primitive interjections.

    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

  • But more significant psychogenetically than all progress of this kind in the manipulation of language is the questioning that becomes active in this month.

    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

  • And then erasing their memories when the experiment fails, and psychogenetically programming them.

    gordsellar.com 2008

  • In fact, the shock neuroses and shock psychoses, if analyzable psychogenetically, "would be found to be reversions to, and also perhaps more often than we suspect, magnifications of acts and psychic states that were at one time the fittest of which our forebears were capable. 12 However, all the pathological phenomena of today are not mere revivals of the acts and states of primitive man and his ancestors, but" they are often, on the other hand, grotesque variants and intensifications of phylogenetic originals that were more sane and simple if also more generic.

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

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