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psychogenic, a.|-ˈdʒɛnɪk|
[f. psycho- + -genic.]
Having a mental or psychological origin or cause.
1902Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 382/2 The paralyses and anaesthesias of hysteria,..the pains and fears of neurasthenia, the ameliorations following appeals to faith or prayer are instances of psychogenic action. 1926J. I. Suttie tr. Ferenczi's Further Contrib. Theory & Technique Psycho-Anal. viii. 107 A psychogenic disturbance of the voice. 1964M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia xii. 71 Only too often the backwardness in reading is deemed either an environmental, or a psychogenic problem, or both. 1973Sci. Amer. Sept. 124/1 Whatever the cause of a psychotic disorder, be it biological or psychogenic, the mental content of the psychosis must reflect the input to the mind and how that input is refracted by the mind's history and functional state.
Hence psychoˈgenically adv.
1933Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. LXXVII. 587 (heading) ‘Colitis’—psychogenically motivated. 1973Lancet 9 June 1296/1 The psychogenically impotent subject can in fact learn to induce erection at will. |