psychogenesis
Americannoun
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genesis of the psyche.
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Psychology. the origin of physical or psychological states, normal or abnormal, out of the interplay of conscious and unconscious psychological forces.
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Pathology. the origin of symptoms as a result of emotional causes.
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Etymology
Origin of psychogenesis
From New Latin, dating back to 1830–40; see origin at psycho-, -genesis
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The author emphasizes the motor elements in mental evolution, and thus introduces into psychogenesis a point of view which is eminently characteristic of modern psychology….
From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander F. Chamberlain
As these interpretations stand, they do not fit the psychogenesis of the dream.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
Four sources have been propounded for the study of psychogenesis.
From The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
But however naive or sophisticated a reaction it may be, its psychogenesis is perfectly intelligible, U and its existence is no proof of the supernal nature of the goodness of "good will."
From Problems of Conduct by Durant Drake
Social psychogenesis is a present and a progressive process.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick
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