ideogenic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

ideo- +‎ -genic

Adjective[edit]

ideogenic (not comparable)

  1. Arising from an idea, or from a person's own thoughts.
    • 2018, Paul Williams, John Keane, Sira Dermen, Independent Psychoanalysis Today:
      Unlike Freud's formulation of hysteria as ideogenic, the early Independents ascribed pathology to exogenous causes (that is, inadequate maternal function vs. the baby's hostile predisposition or fantasies).
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