psychosexual
/sʌɪkə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃʊəl
/adjective
Of or involving the psychological aspects of the sexual impulse: psychosexual development psychosexual problems...
- Where Freud was wrong was in making psychosexual development so central that all other forms of social and emotional development were conceived as being derived from it.
- The interviews included questions about psychosexual development, and some of the men mentioned early sexual experiences with adults, with various emotional reactions.
- The suggestion that Viagra might put psychosexual therapists out of business has proved false.
Derivatives
psychosexually
- Dr. Money believed that infants were born psychosexually tabula rasa, their gender identity something they gained later from their parents and society.
- "As a result, many dysfunctional and psychosexually immature men were admitted into seminaries and ordained in the priesthood."
- Few teen males are close enough to their parents or to other male friends to be able to open up about what is happening to them psychosexually.