The Collaborative International Dictionary
Psychogenesis \Psy`cho*gen"e*sis\, n. Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also psycho-genesis, 1838, "origin of the soul or mind," from psycho- + -genesis "birth, origin, creation." Related: Psychogenetic; psychogenetical.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The origin and development of psychological processes such as personality and behaviour 2 The development of a physical disorder from a psychological factor
Usage examples of "psychogenesis".
They're quite fine when I was younger, but disregard a lot of the things dated pre-2312: they're useful if you want to see the evolution of thought: psychogenesis was something I was working on as early as 2304, but I didn't have the key studies in endocrinology until I had studied a good deal more.
I hope that does not touch you in your vanity, and that you will understand why I reactivated my psychogenesis study and devoted so much of my time to creating you.
My life's work is not psychogenesis, but sociogenesis, and no one but you has ever heard that word in any serious context.
But I know a lot more about psychogenesis than you knew when you started.
Denys was the center of his own universe, Giraud his willing satellite, and of course Denys was interested in psychogenesis, Denys was so damned interested he had almost lost his balance with her, Denys wanted immortality, even without personal continuance—and she had only to hold out the promise: if Giraud was essential to the universe—who more than Denys?
This, this psychogenesis project is very dear to her heart-so much her own, in fact, that she doesn't let her aides handle it.
All dispute as to the psychogenesis of the neuroses must ultimately be decided in the sphere of the childhood neuroses.