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Psychogenesis

noun

The development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors.

A general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind.

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... The material which served for his thesis was gathered from the Berlin Observation Ward for Criminals, among the inmates of which institution he found a great number of degenerative psychoses. In a recent work on the subject of psychogenesis he upholds his former views, and believes he has been able to separate his cases into three distinct groups. The first group comprises certain unstable individuals who show a tendency to the development of simple paranoid psychoses. It concerns patients of a very labile make-up with increased ...

— Studies in Forensic Psychiatry • Bernard Glueck

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