Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun psychogenesis

2 senses of psychogenesis

Sense 1
psychogenesis -- (the development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors)
       => growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis -- ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children")

Sense 2
psychogenesis -- (a general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind)
       => growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis -- ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children")