adjective

• Having a psychological origin or cause rather than a physical one.

  ‘psychogenic ill health’

  More example sentences

  • ‘This factor supports the idea that an extreme narcissism is a specific psychogenic factor here.’
  • ‘Hormone therapy will bring about physical and perhaps psychogenic changes.’
  • ‘Patients who incur injuries during blackouts, including tongue biting, tend to have an organic rather than psychogenic cause for their loss of consciousness.’
  • ‘When higher rates of ‘psychiatric’ findings have been found for MCS Syndrome, researchers mainly attributed this to either psychiatric traits or psychogenic origins of illness.’
  • ‘Early reports of an association between autism and epilepsy helped implicate biological rather than mere psychogenic factors in the etiology of autism.’

  Synonyms

  emotional, spiritual, inner