Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1884, from psycho- + -genic.
Wiktionary
a. originating from or caused by state of mind; having a psychological rather than a physiological cause
WordNet
adj. mental or emotional rather than physiological in origin; "a psychogenic disorder"
Wikipedia
A psychogenic effect is one that originates from the brain instead of other physical organs (i.e. the cause is psychological rather than physiological) and may refer to:
- Psychogenic pain
- Psychogenic disease
- Psychogenic amnesia
- Mass psychogenic illness
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Usage examples of "psychogenic".
Suburban Hospital, with terrible abdominal pains of apparently psychogenic origin, not responding to muscle relaxants or tranquilizers, while a doctor and two aides watched in helpless horror as his own muscles cracked his pelvic girdle into sharp knives of bone, and his child was born without pain four thousand miles away.
Because our old laws and health insurance companies have enabled doctors to continue to monopolize health care and because science, until recently, has shown relatively little interest in treating psychogenic disorders.
It does indeed seem to me, however, that you do have psychogenic, selective, retrograde amnesia, the variety temporarily induced by the blanking process.
Our basic societal conception of foreplay endorses the reflex-based approach to sexual interaction, at the expense of a truly impulse-based psychogenic approach.
In the late medieval cures associated with apparitions of the Virgin Mary, most were of sudden, short-lived, whole-body or partial paralyses that are plausibly psychogenic.
If they do, let's willingly grant that there's something here - even if it's only that some illnesses are psychogenic, and can be cured or mitigated by the right attitudes and mental states.
And nine months later lay on an examining table in the emergency room of Suburban Hospital, with terrible abdominal pains of apparently psychogenic origin, not responding to muscle relaxants or tranquilizers, while a doctor and two aides watched in helpless horror as his own muscles cracked this pelvic girdle into sharp knives of bone, and his child was born without pain four thousand miles away.