Definition of psychosexual in English:
psychosexual
adjective sʌɪkə(ʊ)ˈsɛkʃʊəlˌsaɪkoʊˈsɛkʃ(u)əl
Of or involving the psychological aspects of the sexual impulse.
Example sentencesExamples
- The therapy allowed the children to literally achieve identity and psychosexual advances and growth that resulted in ego-strengthening and increased sense of autonomy and personal worth.
- Freud focused on psychosexual development, seeing adolescence as a recapitulation of the development of sexual awareness in infancy.
- 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.
- 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.
Derivatives
adverb
Dr. Money believed that infants were born psychosexually tabula rasa, their gender identity something they gained later from their parents and society.
Example sentencesExamples
- "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.
Rhymes
asexual, bisexual, heterosexual, homosexual, sexual, transsexual, unisexual
Definition of psychosexual in US English:
psychosexual
adjectiveˌsīkōˈsekSH(o͞o)əlˌsaɪkoʊˈsɛkʃ(u)əl
Of or involving the psychological aspects of the sexual impulse.
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- Freud focused on psychosexual development, seeing adolescence as a recapitulation of the development of sexual awareness in infancy.
- The therapy allowed the children to literally achieve identity and psychosexual advances and growth that resulted in ego-strengthening and increased sense of autonomy and personal worth.
- 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.