Definition of psychogenic in English:
psychogenic
adjective ˌsʌɪkə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪkˌsīkōˈjenik
Having a psychological origin or cause rather than a physical one.
Example sentencesExamples
- Patients who incur injuries during blackouts, including tongue biting, tend to have an organic rather than psychogenic cause for their loss of consciousness.
- This factor supports the idea that an extreme narcissism is a specific psychogenic factor here.
- When higher rates of ‘psychiatric’ findings have been found for MCS Syndrome, researchers mainly attributed this to either psychiatric traits or psychogenic origins of illness.
- Hormone therapy will bring about physical and perhaps psychogenic changes.
- Early reports of an association between autism and epilepsy helped implicate biological rather than mere psychogenic factors in the etiology of autism.
Synonyms
emotional, spiritual, inner