schizophrenogenicadj.
/ˌskɪtsə(ʊ)friːnə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪk//ˌskɪtsə(ʊ)frɛnə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪk//ˌskɪdzə(ʊ)friːnə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪk//ˌskɪdzə(ʊ)frɛnə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪk/ Psychology.
Tending to give rise to schizophrenia.
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schizophrenogenic1949
1949 F. Fromm-Reichmann in Psychiatry XI. 265/2 The schizophrenic is painfully distrustful and resentful of other people, due to the severe early warp and rejection he encountered in important people of his infancy and childhood..mainly in a schizophrenogenic mother.
1956 Behavioral Sci. 1 263/1 Whenever the system is organized for hospital purposes and it is announced to the patient that the actions are for his benefit, then the schizophrenogenic situation is being perpetuated.
1975 Hirsch & Leff Abnormalities in Parents of Schizophrenics vi. 95 This study provides somewhat stronger evidence against the concept of the cold, aloof, hostile schizophrenogenic mother.
1979 B. Ineichen Mental Illness ii. 41 The question of whether schizophrenics are downwardly mobile socially, or whether lower-class culture is schizophrenogenic, remains an open one.
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