psychogenesis, n.Definitions

Psychogenesis (n.) means ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that the essential cause or condition of an illness is psychic: a shock, a gruelling conflict, a wrong adaptation, or a fatal illusion.

Psychogenesis (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the view that every hysterical bodily symptom has a matching psychological cause; it could not explain why a symptom takes its particular form, the gap Freud's analysis filled.